At Results for Development (R4D), Mrs. Ajeigbe work closely with the Innovation practice team to devise and execute strategies and systems that support operational excellence, improve strategic budgeting and resource management, program management and quality control, business development, team-building, and human resources strategy. Some of the projects she works on include the International Development Innovation Alliance (IDIA), FCDO- Frontier Tech Hub, among others.

Some of Mrs. Ajeigbe’s major career achievements include restructuring an organization’s financial processes and procedures that had a major impact on delivery of their objectives. She also formulated and developed financial models and tools for government-funded startup projects.

Before joining R4D, Mrs. Ajeigbe worked with national not-for-profit organizations in the UK managing operational and strategic financial operations. This includes compliance to the UK Charity Commission, Companies House and Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC). She also worked on the Equality Justice and Alliance (EJA) Programme, funded by UK Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), where she managed budgets, grants and contracts.

Mrs. Ajeigbe holds a masters degree in development economics and BSc in accounting. She is a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountant (CIMA). She speaks English and Yoruba.

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In 2021, the UN Food Systems Summit was called to address this missed opportunity. It sought to accelerate progress on the Sustainable Development Goals by leveraging the many connections between food systems and global challenges, such as hunger, climate change, poverty, and inequality. By taking a food systems approach to policymaking, the Summit suggested, governments could harness the power of food systems to benefit people and the planet. But what does it mean to take a food systems approach? How can interested policymakers adopt this approach and apply it to their contexts?

Project Profile: Resources to Support Policymakers to Take a Food Systems Approach to Policymaking

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Acknowledgments: This resource package was developed by the Centre for Food Policy at City, University of London and Results for Development (R4D), with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF). The team from City, University of London comprised Corinna Hawkes and Ursula Trübswasser. The resource package was developed through consultations with global and country actors, and the authors are grateful to members of the Advisory Group for providing advice and feedback throughout the process and reviewing drafts.

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Mr. Olanipekun’s interests and achievements revolve around working with budding sub-grantee non-profits from inception/proof of concept/pilot stages to receiving mainstream funding and achieving clear long-term strategic development plans.

Prior to joining R4D, Mr. Olanipekun worked as the program finance and compliance manager for West Africa for the UK government’s Conflict, Stability and Security Fund (CSSF). In this role, he helped establish and manage the Lake Chad Basin and the West Africa Regional Response Programs for which he was awarded the CSSF global personal professional achievement award. Prior to this role, he worked with Save the Children International as the budgets and costing specialist for Nigeria. He also has worked for organizations such as EngenderHealth and the Johns Hopkins University Center for Communications Programs.

Mr. Olanipekun holds bachelor and master’s degrees in accounting. He is skilled in large-scale ERP systems and software such as Quickbooks, Microsoft Power BI, and Tableau, and has expertise in Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), proposal writing and budgeting, and the Sage 50 Accounting Software.

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Integrating Early Detection and Treatment of Child Wasting into Routine Primary Health Care Services

UNICEF and R4D developed this resource guide for governments to identify integration actions for the early detection and treatment of child wasting.

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Around the world, 45% of child deaths are linked to malnutrition, 45 million are wasted, and only 1 in 3 get treatment. Efforts to prevent and treat wasting have accelerated over the last 20 years, but wasting remains a massive public health problem in many countries, and too many children are left untreated.

Integrating vertical services such as nutrition services, into broader health programs or systems and increasing responsibility on the part of national governments can help countries achieve goals for the early detection and treatment of child wasting.

“Over the last 20 years of my work with national governments and health facilities, this guide has, for the first time, provided a one-stop, go-to resource package for nutrition integration in the health system,” said Albertha Nyaku, R4D’s nutrition program lead. “The guide can also be adapted for various country contexts, including emergency situations.”

Integrating Early Detection and Treatment of Child Wasting into Routine Primary Health Care Services: A Resource Guide to Support National Planning was developed by R4D and UNICEF through a highly consultative process with global and country actors as a practical tool to support countries in better integrating the early detection and treatment of child wasting into routine primary health care services. The target audience includes national policymakers and health and nutrition program staff who are involved in planning, financing and implementing services to support children with wasting. The guide is also useful to actors at the subnational level.

The guide’s 6-step process to develop an integration plan is a way for health sector decision-makers to prioritize integration actions that will work in their context. The approach can be adapted to include prevention, although this requires consensus on the package of preventative services and assessment of feasibility, risks, and benefits for each sector.

It is relevant for countries that have made substantial progress and countries that are just beginning the integration journey. It is also intended to be useful to countries that are looking to integrate wasting services into all components of their health system, as well as those that are focused on integration into individual components of the health system.

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Health systems around the world are striving to prevent and manage child wasting. In 2020, 45 million children experienced wasting, which means they are acutely malnourished and have a low weight-for-height. With 45% of child deaths linked to malnutrition and only one in three children with wasting receiving treatment, this represents a massive problem.

Countries have been integrating wasting services into routine primary healthcare services (PHC) for the last 20 years. Further integration of the early detection and treatment of child wasting is still a critical call to action, as outlined by the UN Global Action Plan for Child Wasting (GAP).

To support countries in their integration journey, UNICEF and R4D developed this resource guide that offers an easy-to-follow process for governments to identify integration actions that can help achieve program goals for the early detection and treatment of child wasting within routine PHC. The guide also provides substantial reference material for country teams. It reviews common constraints to achieving program goals for wasting services across the whole health system and presents a set of integration actions that could help address constraints. Health sector decision-makers will need to decide which actions—or a bundle of integration actions across health sector components—are relevant to their context that can help increase coverage, increase efficiency, and improve sustainability of programs. The approach and materials offered in this guide can help make this decision-making process easier.

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The Resource Guide was developed by UNICEF and R4D, and the team from UNICEF was led by Saul Guerrero Oteyza and Minh Tram Le. The guide was developed through consultation with global and country actors and the authors are grateful to everyone who participated, including members of the advisory group for providing advice and feedback throughout the process and reviewing drafts. Funding was provided by the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation and the Eleanor Crook Foundation.

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As a managing director at R4D, Dr. Jones provides strategic and operational leadership for roughly half of the organization’s portfolio of programs and serves on the R4D executive team. Dr. Jones work with R4D’s practice area leads to create and fund a robust pipeline of programs, oversee the design and execution of high-quality, cross-cutting programs and she also leads efforts to ensure systematic institutional learning at R4D.

Dr. Jones is a published academic author and has written a book manuscript and journal articles on community-based health care delivery, including a 200-page sociological study of community-based care in Ghana.

Prior to joining R4D, Dr. Jones served as the president and founder of Aya Global, a philanthropic consulting practice, for seven years. In this role, she advised foundations and non-profit organizations in the global health and education fields on institutional strategy, program development and fundraising. She helped develop new portfolios for her clients, including a digital health practice and an early childhood education practice, in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

In previous roles, Dr. Jones led the Global Health portfolio at the Barr Foundation, and worked on programs that expanded access to primary health care at Pathfinder and Population Council. While working at Population Council, Dr. Jones was embedded within the Ghana Health Service/Ministry of Health to support the agency as it scaled-up the Community-Based Health and Planning Services (CHPS) model from a pilot project to robust initiatives in ten demonstration districts. Two decades later, CHPS is a global model for community-based service delivery and is at national scale in Ghana.

Dr. Jones holds a doctorate in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, a master’s degree in public administration from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs, and a bachelor’s degree from Brown University in American Studies and Africana Studies. In addition, she has held post-doctoral appointments at Dartmouth College and Harvard University. Dr. Jones serves on the Board of Directors of PRX, World Education and on the Advisory Board of Nurturing Minds.

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