Last Mile Access to Enriched Children's Complementary Food: Mitigating Malnutrition in Kenya

Frontiers in Public Health

Kassim Joseph¹  Mwarania Florence²  Muthuuri Pamela²  Richard Patrick³ 

[1] Faculty of Law, Economics and Governance, Utrecht School of Economics, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands;Global Integrated Innovations Africa, Nairobi, Kenya;School of Public Health, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, United States;

关键词: child nutrition;    last mile;    complementary food;    social entrepreneurship;    child development;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpubh.2021.604864

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Commercial complementary foods are not accessible at the last mile of delivery, despite a veritable stunted growth explosion in Kenya. A Mile for the Brain aims to reduce child malnutrition by solving the pervasive distribution bottlenecks and prohibitive pricing challenges. This paper presents the systematized measurement for change process. We focus on the selection of off-the-shelf complementary foods, training of women entrepreneurs responsible for commercializing these complementary foods, coaching given to mothers on appropriate feeding education, and lastly the learning cycle revolving around feeding mothers, entrepreneurs for the Mile for the Brain social enterprise itself. We highlight the real-life challenges involved in this process in the context of adversity and constrained resources. The results, findings, and policy implications of this study will be reported elsewhere.

【 授权许可】

CC BY