The No Hunger Food Bank(NHFB) leads community-driven and systems-based initiatives to sustainably tackle agrifood challenges and enhance school-feeding partnerships to eliminate hunger among Nigeria’s most vulnerable families. When the Food Bank launched its five-year Strategic Plan in 2019, the organization recognised that in addition to functioning as a hunger-relief intervention through its Temporary Food Assistance Programme (TFAP), the sustainability of NHFB’s value-add rests in mobilising community-shared and systems-based efforts to raise awareness and alleviate the root variables that cause individuals to seek food assistance frequently.
NHFB 2.0, through its Nutrition, Agrifood, Financial, Health, and Educational Security (NAFHES) strategic plan, is more dedicated to eliminating hunger today for the most vulnerable residents and communities in Abuja and northern Nigeria. Over the past six years, NHFB has expanded dynamically and geometrically. We will continue leading efforts to make our renowned TFAP boxes more available, accessible, and nutritious for our beneficiaries, especially in these socioeconomically challenging times. Our stakeholders trust us to address food injustice today and strengthen food and nutrition security (FNS) for the most vulnerable children, mothers, the elderly, and economically disadvantaged households.
NHFB has implemented specific programmes, services, and partnerships to broaden its reach while reinforcing its support for Abuja and northern Nigeria’s vulnerable families that we serve. Given this, are you a government official in the Ministries of Agriculture, Education, Health, Finance, Humanitarian Affairs, Trade, Innovation, Communication, Technology, or Digital Economy? Are you interested in enhancing the food system in Northern Nigeria? Look no further than your NHFB as we share its purpose, mission, vision, and values to win your partnership!
Purpose: to serve as the clearinghouse for agricultural recovery in northern Nigeria, reducing food loss and distributing unmarketable but edible food to the most vulnerable children, mothers, households, beneficiary organizations, and other recipients. This aims to promote a food-just, nutrition-secure, health-equitable, financially inclusive, and educated population.
Mission: A system that rescues, preserves, and makes accessible Nigeria’s community-shared hunger relief collaboration, adaptability, innovation, and solutions to address food and nutrition insecurity challenges facing the most vulnerable Nigerians.
Vision: NHFB will serve as a leader, partner, and collaborator in advancing community-driven solutions to tackle the challenges of northern Nigeria’s rapidly evolving food systems. It will also deliver hunger relief interventions to the most vulnerable Nigerians.
Values:
• Quality: we are committed to excellence in services, products, and operations.
• People: we treat everyone with respect, dignity, and courtesy.
• Work: We create an inclusive culture where all staff can collaborate and innovate in implementing food banking tools, learn together as a team, and grow their careers.
• Collaboration: We value the roles, dedication, and contributions of our community partners, volunteers, donors, and employees.
• Stewardship: We utilise our resources wisely, accountably, and transparently while remaining environmentally conscious.
• Integrity: We are honest and fair in all our interactions with our community partners, supporters, and stakeholders.
• Equity: we promote greater access to the resources and opportunities that our beneficiaries and communities require to achieve their full potential, free from cultural or linguistic biases.
Regarding the integration of NHFB’s purpose, mission, and vision, the five interconnected core values that translate NHFB’s theory of change into reality are as follows:
• Belief: our unwavering commitment to the possibility of a hunger-free northern Nigerian region through community-driven strategic initiatives and partnerships.
• Solidarity: NHFB’s united action with communities and partners through an intergovernmental and collaborative approach to food security solutions.
• Professionalism: international excellence in food bank operations and evidence-based practices and standards.
• Engagement: Ensuring active participation with stakeholders based on community-driven solutions and programmes.
• Equity: Fostering food justice through fair distribution and equitable access to food resources and related public health services.
These values form a continuous cycle of improvement and impact, each reinforcing the others to drive progress toward our vision of zero-food loss and hunger-free northern Nigerian regional community.
Challenges
It is widely acknowledged that the Nigerian food system requires community-shared and climate-friendly food banking strategies to function effectively. Consequently, Nigerian families continue to face unequal access to healthy food, which negatively impacts the economy, as healthy Nigerians are crucial for driving socioeconomic revitalization. The reality is that a marginal number of Nigerians recognises the role of food banks in promoting food security. However, awareness of food banking solutions must be significantly improved across all agricultural development local government offices and extension service centres. Even as NHFB mobilises and successfully rescues 76% of its food recovery target, increased strategic coordination will catalyse NHFB’s reach within northern Nigeria. As the Nigerian government aims to meet its long-term hunger alleviation goals, the national food systems coordination machinery should prioritize food banking policy interventions in all local governments. With many Nigerian communities feeling overlooked and striving to achieve national food and nutrition security (FNS) and dietary goals, national and regional governments’ strategic collaboration with NHFB will facilitate a quicker, more effective network of coordinators within each community to attain a zero-food-loss and hunger-free northern Nigerian community
Concluding Remarks
As we reflect on six years of service to our community and look ahead to addressing the evolving needs of agricultural recovery and food insecurity, we find ourselves at a pivotal moment. NHFB’s deeper understanding and mapping of the causes of hunger continuously inform our programs and drive us toward a more sustainable model of serving our beneficiary communities.
We are grateful to the leadership of the Global Food Banking Network (GFN), the United States Embassy, the Australian High Commission, Jumia Foods, Jabi Lake Mall, Glovo, Junk-yard Restaurant, Google-Nigeria, the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), and northern Nigerian governments as we commemorate six years of service to Abuja and the northern Nigerian regional community we serve at this pivotal moment.
Executive Office of the President,
No Hunger Food Bank,
Corporate 14, Games Village,
Dubai International Market, Kaura 900103,
Abuja,
W: www.nohungerfoodbank.org
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nohungerfoodbank/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nohunger.foodbank.5
The No Hunger Food Bank(NHFB) leads community-driven and systems-based initiatives to sustainably tackle agrifood challenges and enhance school-feeding partnerships to eliminate hunger among Nigeria’s most vulnerable families. When the Food Bank launched its five-year Strategic Plan in 2019, the organization recognised that in addition to functioning as a hunger-relief intervention through its Temporary Food Assistance Programme (TFAP), the sustainability of NHFB’s value-add rests in mobilising community-shared and systems-based efforts to raise awareness and alleviate the root variables that cause individuals to seek food assistance frequently.
NHFB 2.0, through its Nutrition, Agrifood, Financial, Health, and Educational Security (NAFHES) strategic plan, is more dedicated to eliminating hunger today for the most vulnerable residents and communities in Abuja and northern Nigeria. Over the past six years, NHFB has expanded dynamically and geometrically. We will continue leading efforts to make our renowned TFAP boxes more available, accessible, and nutritious for our beneficiaries, especially in these socioeconomically challenging times. Our stakeholders trust us to address food injustice today and strengthen food and nutrition security (FNS) for the most vulnerable children, mothers, the elderly, and economically disadvantaged households.
NHFB has implemented specific programmes, services, and partnerships to broaden its reach while reinforcing its support for Abuja and northern Nigeria’s vulnerable families that we serve. Given this, are you a government official in the Ministries of Agriculture, Education, Health, Finance, Humanitarian Affairs, Trade, Innovation, Communication, Technology, or Digital Economy? Are you interested in enhancing the food system in Northern Nigeria? Look no further than your NHFB as we share its purpose, mission, vision, and values to win your partnership!
Purpose: to serve as the clearinghouse for agricultural recovery in northern Nigeria, reducing food loss and distributing unmarketable but edible food to the most vulnerable children, mothers, households, beneficiary organizations, and other recipients. This aims to promote a food-just, nutrition-secure, health-equitable, financially inclusive, and educated population.
Mission: A system that rescues, preserves, and makes accessible Nigeria’s community-shared hunger relief collaboration, adaptability, innovation, and solutions to address food and nutrition insecurity challenges facing the most vulnerable Nigerians.
Vision: NHFB will serve as a leader, partner, and collaborator in advancing community-driven solutions to tackle the challenges of northern Nigeria’s rapidly evolving food systems. It will also deliver hunger relief interventions to the most vulnerable Nigerians.
Values:
• Quality: we are committed to excellence in services, products, and operations.
• People: we treat everyone with respect, dignity, and courtesy.
• Work: We create an inclusive culture where all staff can collaborate and innovate in implementing food banking tools, learn together as a team, and grow their careers.
• Collaboration: We value the roles, dedication, and contributions of our community partners, volunteers, donors, and employees.
• Stewardship: We utilise our resources wisely, accountably, and transparently while remaining environmentally conscious.
• Integrity: We are honest and fair in all our interactions with our community partners, supporters, and stakeholders.
• Equity: we promote greater access to the resources and opportunities that our beneficiaries and communities require to achieve their full potential, free from cultural or linguistic biases.
Regarding the integration of NHFB’s purpose, mission, and vision, the five interconnected core values that translate NHFB’s theory of change into reality are as follows:
• Belief: our unwavering commitment to the possibility of a hunger-free northern Nigerian region through community-driven strategic initiatives and partnerships.
• Solidarity: NHFB’s united action with communities and partners through an intergovernmental and collaborative approach to food security solutions.
• Professionalism: international excellence in food bank operations and evidence-based practices and standards.
• Engagement: Ensuring active participation with stakeholders based on community-driven solutions and programmes.
• Equity: Fostering food justice through fair distribution and equitable access to food resources and related public health services.
These values form a continuous cycle of improvement and impact, each reinforcing the others to drive progress toward our vision of zero-food loss and hunger-free northern Nigerian regional community.
Challenges
It is widely acknowledged that the Nigerian food system requires community-shared and climate-friendly food banking strategies to function effectively. Consequently, Nigerian families continue to face unequal access to healthy food, which negatively impacts the economy, as healthy Nigerians are crucial for driving socioeconomic revitalization. The reality is that a marginal number of Nigerians recognises the role of food banks in promoting food security. However, awareness of food banking solutions must be significantly improved across all agricultural development local government offices and extension service centres. Even as NHFB mobilises and successfully rescues 76% of its food recovery target, increased strategic coordination will catalyse NHFB’s reach within northern Nigeria. As the Nigerian government aims to meet its long-term hunger alleviation goals, the national food systems coordination machinery should prioritize food banking policy interventions in all local governments. With many Nigerian communities feeling overlooked and striving to achieve national food and nutrition security (FNS) and dietary goals, national and regional governments’ strategic collaboration with NHFB will facilitate a quicker, more effective network of coordinators within each community to attain a zero-food-loss and hunger-free northern Nigerian community
Concluding Remarks
As we reflect on six years of service to our community and look ahead to addressing the evolving needs of agricultural recovery and food insecurity, we find ourselves at a pivotal moment. NHFB’s deeper understanding and mapping of the causes of hunger continuously inform our programs and drive us toward a more sustainable model of serving our beneficiary communities.
We are grateful to the leadership of the Global Food Banking Network (GFN), the United States Embassy, the Australian High Commission, Jumia Foods, Jabi Lake Mall, Glovo, Junk-yard Restaurant, Google-Nigeria, the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), and northern Nigerian governments as we commemorate six years of service to Abuja and the northern Nigerian regional community we serve at this pivotal moment.
Executive Office of the President,
No Hunger Food Bank,
Corporate 14, Games Village,
Dubai International Market, Kaura 900103,
Abuja,
W: www.nohungerfoodbank.org
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nohungerfoodbank/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nohunger.foodbank.5