WHAT DO WE DO?

Our Work

Our Key Work Areas

  • Food Systems and Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture 
  • Maternal Nutrition
  • Infant and Young Child Nutrition
  • Adolescent Nutrition 
  • Primary Health Care
  • Climate Change and Sustainability
  • Rigorous policy and programmatic reviews
  • Development Research, Assessments and Surveys 
  • Decision Science Tools and Digital Innovations
  • Leadership Dialogues
  • Technical Consultations
  • Strategic Networking 
  • Deploying Strategic Communication Models

Facilitate and support the building of leadership skills and capabilities through a variety of models, mechanisms and platforms to enhance food systems, nutrition and public health impact

Strengthen engagement with relevant communities and domains for impactful development

What we do

Joining and converging voices at multiple levels spanning the political, business and philanthropy communities to amplify and elevate engagement around the issues of food, nutrition and public health inequities in Africa.

Mobilize to increase recognition, access and convergence of the appropriate technical expertise at all levels and relevant sectors towards addressing the most critical socio-political determinants of food, nutrition and public health inequities in Africa

Support and facilitate the mobilization of finance and other relevant assets through regular and innovative mechanisms towards reducing food, nutrition and public health inequities in Africa

Support and facilitate appropriate Leadership Development for short, medium to long term capacity building for sustainable reduction of food, nutrition and public health inequities

Initiate, sustain, support and facilitate impactful engagement with relevant development communities at all levels (community members and leaders, immediate supporting networks of stakeholders, government, private sector, donor, philanthropy, and civil society stakeholders) towards reducing food, nutrition and public health inequities across Africa.

We work to achieve

Support government and various development organizations to better articulate and execute impactful policies and strategies. One of the greatest challenges with the African public sector is that while many well-crafted policies exist, many are most often poorly executed. Issues related to political will, accountability, stakeholder engagement and adoption, relevant capacities, measurements and progress tracking, and financing are usually contributory.

We will support policy and strategy development processes with impactful execution in mind working with the responsible organizations. We will think through, follow through, match scale with time and resources with a strong blend of hope, realism and innovation.

Key elements of our efforts will include facilitating and collaborating with critical stakeholders around developing and deploying appropriate accountability tools, processes and mechanisms, public awareness, engagement and civil society actions, measurements and progress tracking; identifying and addressing technical capacity gaps.

We will support and facilitate actions and mechanisms for improved
financing for transformative food systems, nutrition and public health priorities within the context of ‘More Money for Nutrition, More Nutrition for the Money’ along the continuum of Allocate, Release, Spend and Account.

Our efforts will cover impactful advocacy, fund raising, facilitating funded project support, and assisting with financing related governance and partnership related needs.

We will support and facilitate with tools, processes, mechanisms and resources that will help in bridging identified and necessary technical capacity gaps

We agree with the expressed position that ‘leadership is perhaps the most critical element in the battle against malnutrition and poor basic health conditions and that without insightful, precise and powerful leadership, change cannot happen in any effective way, and local leadership must be empowered to close the nutrition gap’. We will support and facilitate leadership development initiatives through new and established partnerships.

  • Communities of residence
  • Private sector
  • Public sector stakeholders
  • Philanthropy
  • Civil Society
Community Engagement

Strengthen engagement with relevant communities and domains for impactful development

Leadership Development

Facilitate and support the building of leadership skills and capabilities through a variety of models, mechanisms and platforms to enhance food systems, nutrition and public health impact

Food Systems, Nutrition and Basic Public Health Interventions
  • Food Systems and Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture 
  • Maternal Nutrition
  • Infant and Young Child Nutrition
  • Adolescent Nutrition 
  • Primary Health Care
  • Climate Change and Sustainability
Influencing Policy, Finance and Communication
  • Leadership Dialogues
  • Technical Consultations
  • Strategic Networking 
  • Deploying Strategic Communication Models 
Data, Evidence and Analytics
  • Rigorous policy and programmatic reviews
  • Development Research, Assessments and Surveys 
  • Decision Science Tools and Digital Innovations 
Victor Ajieroh, Ph.D.
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.

Dr. Ajieroh has served in several senior policy advisory and program delivery roles in agriculture, food systems and nutrition in West Africa and the broader Africa region. With significant experience working with bilateral and multilateral donor programs, the private sector, international research, local non-governmental, and government institutions, he has provided leadership for a complex portfolio of investments and endeavors in support of transformative policy, programmatic, research, data, financing and leadership development initiatives in the agriculture, food systems, nutrition, and public health landscape in Nigeria, the broader Africa and beyond.

Dr. Ajieroh builds and facilitates fit-for-purpose multi-stakeholder partnership, leadership and coordination models for high impact and sustainable development priorities through strategic platforms that enable the convergence of leaders in business, politics and philanthropy. He has influenced food systems, nutrition and public health through a range of strategic, technical and financing mechanisms.

He also served on the Advisory Group of the Welcome Trust funded Sustainable and Healthy Food Systems Initiative, and on the Steering Committee of the African Academy of Sciences on African Food and Nutrition Priorities.  He is a Resource Person to the African Economic Research Consortium and for several years, was part of a group of representatives supporting Eminent Members of the Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition. He currently sits on the Boards of the World Vegetable Center, Access to Nutrition Initiative and the Food Health Systems Advisory Africa.

He has a Ph.D. from the Public Health Faculty of the University of Ibadan, Nigeria and completed the Advanced Management & Leadership Program of the Said Business School, Oxford; and the Public Leadership and Policy Program of the School of Politics, Policy and Governance (SPPG), Abuja. He is a Fellow of the Nutrition Society of Nigeria and also holds the NESG Policy Innovation Center Fellowship of the Behavioral Insights Network for Transparency and Accountability (BiNTA).