WHO ARE WE?
About Us
We are a local African organization committed to providing development and consulting services towards bettering the lives and livelihoods of vulnerable African populations through transformative food systems, nutrition, and public health initiatives.
We facilitate policy and programmatic actions that will enable and connect the poor and vulnerable populations in Africa with the necessary resources to attain food and nutrition security with access to basic public health services critical for living a healthy, productive, and fulfilling life.
We have a vision of Africa where all women, youth, children, and other vulnerable populations are well nourished, empowered, equipped, and supported to live decent, meaningful, resilient, healthy, and productive lives.
We equip, empower and support vulnerable African populations, especially women, the youth, and children, to sustainably and equitably access and utilize safe, adequate, affordable, and nutritious foods and the necessary integrated public health services they need to live healthy, productive and fulfilled lives.
We have a vision of Africa where all women, youth, children and other vulnerable populations are well nourished and empowered, equipped and supported to live decent, meaningful, resilient, healthy and productive lives.
- We equip, empower and support vulnerable African populations especially women, the youth and children to sustainably and equitably access and utilize safe, adequate, affordable and nutritious foods and the necessary integrated public health services they need to live healthy, productive and fulfilled lives.
- We facilitate policy and programmatic actions that will enable and connect the poor and vulnerable populations in Africa with necessary resources to attain food and nutrition security with access to basic public health services critical for living a healthy, productive and fulfilling life.
- We serve as a strategic Africa based intermediary organization linking local and global development resources and assets to collectives of local African organizations towards achieving accelerated development impact especially in public health, food systems and nutrition.
We are committed to bettering lives and livelihoods of vulnerable African populations through transformative food systems, nutrition and public health initiatives in the context of the 2030 SDGs and beyond.
In the context of our I.C.E Framework, we are committed to:
- Integrity: holding ourselves and all our stakeholders to the highest ideals of integrity in all its ramifications.
- Collaboration: fostering purposeful cooperation and partnerships with full respect for diversity, equity and inclusion.
- Excellence: Holding ourselves accountable as we work with all stakeholders to meet and exceed set and expected standards in the most reasonable and impactful ways possible across all our work areas and relationships
Our Visionary Leader
Victor Ajieroh, PhD.
Lead Consultant & Founding Director
Victor Ajieroh is a public policy practitioner, senior expert and leader with over 25 years of progressive cross-sectoral experience in food systems, agriculture, public health and nutrition. Over the years, he has consulted and been in the employment of several organizations such as the African Development Bank, AGRA, Gates Foundation, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in Nigeria, Unilever, the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, the International Agriculture Program of the University of Missouri USA, the World Bank, IFPRI, GAIN, and various USAID initiatives. He is the Lead Consultant and Founding Director of the Praisegate Services & Consult based in Lagos, Nigeria.
