M&E Plan
Indicator | Definition | Baseline
(current value) |
Target | Data Source | Frequency | Responsible | Reporting | |
Goal | Lower percentages of chronically malnourished children | The number of children who experience impaired growth and development due to unhealthy diets divided by the total number of children in the country, multiplied by 100 | 38% [1] | 15% | Initially, the metrics of success for our product will be arm circumference, height, and weight
CHWs and Nurses will take blood tests for vitamin content |
Annually | CHWs and nurses at hospitals and in villages | Annual report |
Outcomes | Improved quality of life for children | The number of children that mothers describe as living happy lives divided by the total number of children in SL, multiplied by 100 | NA | More active, happier, healthier | Surveys asking mothers about children’s behavior and health | Every 6 months | Mothers | Mother’s report every 6 months |
Outputs | Lower number of families seeking medical treatment | The number of children who are acutely malnourished due to long-term malnutrition | 17% [1] | 5% | Nurses at hospitals and doctors offices, CHWs | Monthly | Nurses/Doctors | Annual report |
Lower child mortality rate | In the long term, higher micronutrient levels in children could reduce the number of children dying to malnutrition | 26% by the age of 5- 46% due to malnutrition = 12% children die before the age of 5 due to malnutrition | 12% | National census or reporting by CHWs | Every 10 years or every 6 months | National employees or CHWs | Depends |
Logic model
Inputs | Activities | Outputs | Outcomes | Goal alignment |
Funding
World Hope Resources Lehigh University resources |
Develop a supplemental food product
Hire workers, teach them how to make product Get product into market to be sold (advertised well) |
Less children need to receive care for acute malnutrition | Happier lives for children and families as a result
Lower child mortality rate Lower number of nutritionally stunted children in Sierra Leone |
These outcomes and outputs would align perfectly with our original goals for the project |
Assumptions:
- Children will continuously eat enough of our therapeutic food to improve their nutrition levels
- Children will enjoy eating our food
- Mothers will be willing to pay for our food
- Nurses and CHWs will continue to monitor malnutrition
Social Return on Investment for your project.
Health spending encompasses 9% of Sierra Leone’s national budget, and mothers and children under 5 receive free healthcare. Additionally, Sierra Leone has one of the higher GDPs of underdeveloped countries, but is lower in terms of health, education, and standard of living. If our product sold at just 500 units/day in the beginning, this would impact approximately 167 children under the age of 5. [2] With that being said, SROI does not include saving the government money. Our product aims to improve the micronutrient levels in children and limit the number of chronically malnourished kids. Malnutrition causes issues with a child’s cognitive development, so if we can impact around 150 children’s nutrition levels, those 150 children will have more of an ability to learn and succeed in school and eventually contribute to the economy. Well nourished children are also less susceptible to disease because their immune system are more healthy, so our product could impact savings to health services in Sierra Leone. Because families are not responsible for paying for their child’s healthcare when they are under the age of 5, they are not necessarily saving money they would spend on healthcare. Our product will be at least five times cheaper than other therapeutic foods, like Bennimix, but because they are not responsible for paying for healthcare until after their child is over 5, it cannot be used to truly quantify the success of our product. It is difficult to give a value of our SROI ratio, but it is something we will continue to research and try to quantify.
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