ABDULLAH FATIMA FOUNDATION

LIVELIHOOD INTERVENTION AND IMPARTATION PROJECT PROPOSAL

1.0 Project Summary

PROJECT NAME LIVELIHOOD INTERVENTION AND IMPARTATION PROJECT

Project Overview Immediate Poverty and Scarcity Alleviation of the Poor and
Neglected Citizens in the Areas of:
Short Term/Immediate:
1. Food Supply;
2. Medical Outreach;
3. Commercial Transportation;
4. Payment of School Fees for Primary and Secondary School
Students;
5. Payment of WASSCE; NECO and GCE Exam Fees for
Secondary School Students;
6. Empowerment of Already Trained Artisans who lack funds to
start their own micro businesses based on their learned trades
and vocations. This will be done by way of acquisition of
machines, equipment, tools and securing of shops and
workplaces and small cash grant for working capital.
Medium Term:
1. Building Vocational Skills Acquisition Training Centers;
2. Rehabilitation of Dilapidated School Structures;
2. Building Low Cost Houses for the Displaced and Homeless
Poorest of the Poor;
3. Drilling of Water Boreholes and Treatment of Existing
Boreholes;
4. Rehabilitation of Dilapidated Market and Commercial Activities
Structures
Long Term:
1. Rehabilitation of Dilapidated Road Network;
2. Provision of Solar Lighting Systems to supply uninterrupted
energy and Building and Equipping of Community Health
Centers at the Project Locations
3. Building School to Absorb Children on the Streets for
Rehabilitation, Re-orientation of Mind, Education and
Empowerment
Project Location PROJECT LOCATION

1. LAGOS STATE

IPAJA COMMUNITY

AGBADO OKE-ODO COMMUNITY

OLUWATEDO COMMUNITY

BADAGRY LGA
 AJARA COMMUNITY

IBEREKO COMMUNITY

OJO LGA

IREDE COMMUNITY

IKOTUN EGBE LCDA

EGBE COMMUNITY

2. OGUN STATE

OKE ARO-MATOGUN COMMUNITY

YEWA SOUTH COMMUNITY

3. KOGI STATE

IJUMU LGA

AIYETORO GBEDE COMMUNITY

IYARA IJUMU COMMUNITY

4. OYO STATE

ISALE OYO COMMUNITY

5. EKITI STATE

ADO COMMUNITY

6. ONDO STATE

IKORO COMMUNITY

Country Nigeria
Project Value 108.5 Billion Naira
Beneficiaries (Direct and Direct: 5,000,000 Households
Indirect)
Project Summary The project aims at addressing immediate food and medical
supply, payment of school and examination fees for the children
of neglected Communities in the Project Locations as enumerated
herein. The project targets an estimated 5,000,000 households,
particularly widowed women, men, unemployed youths, single
mothers and the elderly and the poorest of the poor families, living
in our Project Locations enumerated in this proposal. Assistance
will help affected households to meet their immediate, medium
term and long term food, medical and employment needs, as well
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 as provide appropriate capacity building to the target
communities. Vocational Skills Training and Empowerment of
widowed women, men, single mothers, unemployed youths and
indigent citizens of the Communities

Sewing Machines; Weaving Machines, Dryers, Hand-dryers, Laptops,

Vulcanizing Machines, Catering and Confectionary Equipment; Beads
and Hat Making will be procured and distributed to identified persons to
be empowered based on our needs assessment at the Project
Communities. Provision of Tricycle (Keke) and Motor Bikes for
commercial transportation to unemployed youths of the Project
Communities.

Project Impact Improved Livelihoods, Food Medical and Transportation

Project Outcomes/Outputs:
Implementing Partners
Security, livelihood and resilience of vulnerable communities
against effects of poverty and neglect in the Project Focus LGAs
and Communities.
Outcome:
 Increased food, medical supply, education and skills
acquisition status of 5,000,000 vulnerable households using
immediate/short term, medium term and long term
sustainable livelihood interventions.
1. Abdullah Fatima Foundation
2. Supreme Family Entertainment International Initiative

Sector Livelihoods and Family Wellbeing Impartation and Improvement

Project Period 1. Immediate/Short Term – 90 Days March – May 2022
2. Intermediate/Medium Term – 180 Days – June – December
2022
3. Long Term – 24 Months – January 2023 – December 2025
Contact person in Field for ABDULLAH FATIMA FOUNDATION
the project
Brief Profile ABDULLAH FATIMA FOUNDATION is registered. It is non-
political, non-religious, and non-tribal. Our attention is centred on
service to the masses through project development.

MISSION:
To alleviate poverty through empowerment programmes for the
less privileged members of the public – widows, orphans,
destitute.

VISION:
i. To bridge the gap between the less privileged and the privileged
in the society and put smiles in every home regardless of religious
beliefs, ethnicity and status.

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 AIMS/OBJECTIVES:
Our aims are:
i. To create opportunity for economic growth and expansion
ii. To source for help to the needy
iii. To monitor programs, projects for consolidation

2.0 Strategic Framework

Abdullah Fatima Foundation’s strategy is in line with the Supreme Family Entertainment
International Initiative global strategies and pillars/goals. It strongly supports SDGs Vision
2030 and Millennium Development Goals. The priority of the strategy is to protect life and
dignity (to reduce the risks and effects of disasters), empowering and supporting the
marginalised and vulnerable communities to voice their needs and address root causes of
poverty and suffering. The project will not only address the immediate causes of food
insecurity but also build on structures to address the underlying causes of food insecurity
through capacity building of the locals and also integration with other sectors such as SDGs
healthy living and nutrition.

Abdullah Fatima Foundation programme has aimed at addressing the short-term needs
in emergencies, the medium term needs through rehabilitation programmes and the longer
term strategic needs of the poor through our short and long-term development
interventions. Our emergency interventions stabilise populations who do not, in the short
term, have the capacity to meet their basic material and medical needs. For the most part
in our operation area, this has meant targeted feeding and medical programmes,
distribution of food and medical supplies and tools, interventions in water and public health
targeting those suffering the effects of drought, neglect, flush floods and other disasters.
Rehabilitation and longer term development aims to build the capacity of the poor to enable
them to take responsibility for their own development needs – to make a sustainable impact
on poverty.

Throughout the intervention programme areas needs assessments have been, and
continue to be, conducted by a variety of agencies, including Supreme Family
Entertainment International Initiative. Findings from recent assessments include:
 Global Acute Malnutrition (GAM) rates: Well above the WHO emergency threshold of
15%.
 The Project Locations/Communities in Nigeria have records of very high incidences of
poverty in the local communities estimated at 64% (Those having income less than
N5,000 a day) according to Federal Office of Statistics (CBS) survey.

The programme will directly contribute to the achievement of Supreme Family

Entertainment International Initiative key humanitarian results, namely stabilising food
and medical security and empowering the people to become self-sufficient in the provision
of basic human needs and protecting livelihoods. Abdullah Fatima Foundation will use
an integrated approach to ensure that the interventions contribute to the immediate short-
term, medium term and long term well-being of the targeted communities by delivering
sustainable outcomes in all programming areas.

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3.0 Stakeholder Analysis

The project will be implemented in close collaboration with the Community Development
Organizations, Opinion Leaders, Chiefs and Traditional Institutions in the Project Focus
Communities. The Stakeholders will be involved in decision making and implementation
throughout the project life.

4.0 The project (detailed description of what would be in the logical framework)

The project aims at addressing immediate short term, medium term and long term basic life
necessities supply of neglected Communities in the Project Locations as identified in
Nigeria based on Needs Assessment and Reports.

The project targets an estimated 5,000,000 households, particularly widowed women, men,
youths, single mothers and the elderly and the poorest of the poor families, living in our
Project Locations in Nigeria. Assistance will help affected households to meet their
immediate short term food, medicals, education/skills acquisition and transportation needs,
as well as provide appropriate capacity building to the target communities. Vocational Skills
Training and Empowerment of widowed women and men, the youths and indigent citizens
of the Communities. Sewing Machines; Weaving Machines, Dryers, Hand-dryers, Laptops,
Vulcanizing Machines, Catering and Confectionary Equipment; Beads and Hat Making will
be procured and distributed to identified persons to be empowered based on our Needs
Assessment and Reports at the Project Communities. Provision of Tricycle (Keke) and
Motor Bikes for commercial transportation to unemployed youths of the Project
Communities.
5.1 Beneficiary Analysis
The proposed activities will directly benefit 5,000,000 households in the target
Communities, special emphasis will be placed on project activities benefitting most
vulnerable households. More detailed beneficiary numbers by gender, district and sectors
will be identified during the first month of the project.
The beneficiaries will be identified through a participatory planning meeting with community
development committees in the project areas. A selection criteria will be established by The
Breeders Empowerment Foundation through consultation of individuals who hold key
responsibilities in the villages, towns, hamlets and local government areas. Other
considerations will include vulnerability, skills and potentiality to initiate and maintain
business, trust and honesty, gender and age, ethnic reflection, vulnerability of the
household, type of intervention the person is engaged or capable of doing. The
beneficiaries will be verified and validated in public forums.

The direct beneficiaries will be individual households affected by several years of acute
neglect, deprivation and insecurity and consequently suffer from chronic livelihood
vulnerability. The project will target those vulnerable families who have no other options to
start or expand their business activities.

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5.0 Implementation Methodology – Project Focus Locations/Communities

5.1 Immediate/Short Term

 Payment of School and Examination Fees – WASSCE, NECO, GCE, JAMB
 Food Supply
 Organizing Medical Outreach to provide eye glasses, carry out surgeries, conduct
child deliveries, provision of treatment for malaria, typhoid and related ailments.
 Drilling of Boreholes and Treatment of Existing Boreholes
 Empowerment of Artisans by way of provision of Machines, Equipment,
Accessories, Workshops/Shops, as well as small cash grant for working capital

5.2 Medium Tern

 Vocational Skills Acquisition Training and Empowerment with Work Machines and
Tools to establish and run their own micro and small businesses
 Provision of Tricycles (Keke) and Motor Bikes (Okada) for commercial transportation
 Provision of Solar Lighting Systems for the Rural Communities in our Project Focus
Areas
 Building and Equipping Community Health Care Facilities

5.3 Long Term

 Building of Schools to absorb street children to give them basic education and
training that would make them useful and responsible citizens of the society at large.
 Building Mass Low Cost Housing Units for the rehabilitation of street children,
displaced persons who are presently living in IDP Camps in Adamawa and Borno
States and indigent citizens of our Project Focus Areas

a) Community participatory integration approach: (CPIA)

Prior to implementation, Abdullah Fatima Foundation will facilitate the community to
come up with their own action plan and prioritize the projects. The community being the
major stake holder will be given the chance to prioritise its needs. Other stake holders and
partners will also be contacted to share their experiences and avoid duplication. The
beneficiaries will be selected through a well-structured, mutually agreed, and inclusive and
gender sensitive criteria. They will then be sensitized and made aware of the project
importance, involvement and ownership for sustainability. The beneficiaries will include
classification of the vulnerable groups including women, men and youth.

b) Working in collaboration and partnership:

The project will work in close collaboration with the Community Development
Organizations, Opinion Leaders, Chiefs and Traditional Institutions. These stakeholders
will provide services such as registration of groups and capacity building planning methods,
specific business technical and management skills. Their inputs will mainly be on technical
backstopping and linkages to frontline extension workers; this will provide benchmark for
sustainability.

c) Capacity Building and Exchange visits:

Abdullah Fatima Foundation will facilitate capacity building of the beneficiaries and
frequent exchange visits between & among beneficiary groups. These would provide a
forum for information and experience sharing as well as enable individuals and groups to
learn from best practices from their successful peers.
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The methodologies will address the needs/ constraints and cultural values of the community
appropriately as the community structures and members together with other stakeholders
will be given an equal opportunity in decision making process. The methodologies and
approaches will empower the local structure with knowledge, skills and essential inputs
hence ownership and sustainability of the action during implementation and after the project
life.

6.0 Project Management

Abdullah Fatima Foundation will be responsible for the overall management, coordination
and monitoring of the project even when using partners in the implementation. To ensure
that sufficient management and monitoring/evaluation resources are available, Abdullah
Fatima Foundation will establish Project Management Team to ensure progress review.

a. Project Organogram
 Head of Programmes
 Programme Quality and M&E
 Operations HR and Logistics
 Finance
 Field Service and Logistics Coordination
 Livelihood Officers and Field Monitors

Human Resource
The Project Management Team will be led by the Programme Manager who will be
responsible for the oversight of all programme activities, working closely with project
Coordinator to ensure activity implementation are on track across the programme areas.
Operations and finance will also be involved. The team will maintain high-level relationships
with all relevant stakeholders, in particular with the target communities, DROI, and the
Government. The Programme Manager will have support from a program quality
perspective from the Programme Quality Coordinator, as well as Monitoring and Evaluation
team.

Each of the 3 operation areas will be staffed with a Project Officer, who will technically
report to the Project Coordinator, and administratively to respective Abdullah Fatima
Foundation Area Managers, and will be responsible for ensuring that programme activities
are implemented as planned. Islamic Relief will endeavour to recruit suitably qualified staff.

It is envisaged that the Project Officers will hold regular meetings (at least bimonthly) with
local partners and county officials in their respective areas to ensure that the programme
is being delivered according to the implementation plan and help identify any gaps in
coverage. GFMCSL will share information from these meetings with partners to assist in
the regular updating of the ‘who, what, where’ matrix for the Project Communities poverty
and deprivation reduction response.

b. Media and Communication

Abdullah Fatima Foundation will carry out this according to the donor requirement and
guidelines, media and communication as specified in the project agreement documents.
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Abdullah Fatima Foundation has also established a communications team with an aim to
produce communication materials including quarterly Newsletters, photos, programme
Case studies, and facilitate media interviews to highlight our work.

7.0 Monitoring and Evaluation

The Project Management Team will have a significant monitoring and evaluation capacity,
with a Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator overseeing Monitoring and Evaluation
Officers in each operation areas. The Monitoring and Evaluation staff will be responsible
for supporting the collection, analysis and sharing of data across the programme areas.
M&E staff will regularly review data received from partners and undertake field visits to sites
to assess progress and meet with partners and beneficiaries. They will prepare monthly
progress reports that provide a summary of planned activities for the month, progress to
date and plans for the upcoming month. In addition, M&E staff, in collaboration with
partners, will develop standardised monitoring forms that will be used to collect information
about the project.
During the first month of the programme, baseline data will be collected and supplemented
as needed to ensure that the programme is able to accurately measure progress against
the proposed indicators and detail the programme’s outputs and outcomes. In addition, a
final evaluation by an external evaluator will be conducted at the end of the programme to
assess achievements, lessons learned and best practices.

8.0 Value for Money

The project includes a variety of activities; this selection of activities allows Abdullah
Fatima Foundation to engage in the activities that directly respond to the problems and
are feasible, effective and cost efficient in their area of operations.
Cash for work programs that would be used to rehabilitate some community infrastructures
in selected villages represent significant value for money given the resultant investment in
community infrastructure, which has long term benefits.
VFM in the results chain

Economy- Abdullah Fatima Foundation will ensure that the cost per unit of input (e.g.
Project deliverables, products, materials, fuel, transport, salaries) are minimised, or at least
kept within reasonable bounds, salaries and allowances will be compliant to the Nigerian
NGO sector.

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Efficiency- Abdullah Fatima Foundation Relief will uphold efficiency by ensuring that the
cost per output (e.g. delivered complete service or product, completed structure, person
attended to, training course completed) are minimised and kept within an acceptable range.
This will be done in open and transparent manner as strictly stipulated in GFMCSL
procurement policy. Every spending will require the approval of the country director.

Effectiveness - The project management team will at all time ensure that the intended
outcome of “reducing negative impact of poverty and deprivation” is achieved within
reasonable cost. Both quantitative and qualitative aspects of the outputs will be put into
consideration in assessing the effectiveness.

Budgeting - The costs of interventions are estimated using the current market rates and
experience from the previous projects implemented by Abdullah Fatima Foundation in
similar areas.

Cost-efficiency Analysis – Abdullah Fatima Foundation will carry out cost

benchmarking at the planning stage, this process may be a signal to review features of the
project which might subsequently be changed in case of discrepancies between the unit
costs of deliverables.

Overhead costs. Abdullah Fatima Foundation has established budgetary ceilings for
three categories of eligible expenditure: direct costs, indirect administrative costs
(maximum 10%), and operational support costs (maximum 10% of direct costs).

Use of common public services: Abdullah Fatima Foundation will integrate its services
with those of the host communities at the local level, this is expected to act as cost cutting
by getting the services at a shared cost.

9.0 Budget Narrative

Abdullah Fatima Foundation operates in accordance with international accounting and

procurement procedures. Financial monitoring and compliance with internal and external
donor requirements are conducted on a monthly basis. Abdullah Fatima Foundation
conducts a programme wide budget review; these reviews identify any potential problems
related to specific grants and allow for Abdullah Fatima Foundation to take the necessary
corrective action. The Abdullah Fatima Foundation programme undergoes and internal
audit every year. The audit covers all aspects of operation, including grant management,
financial systems and procedures, logistics, transport management, and implementation.
Performance against the recommendations arising from internal audits is monitored on a
monthly basis.
a. Project Management: This covers management and monitoring and evaluation
staff, office running costs and final evaluation costs associated with Abdullah Fatima
Foundation’s overall management of the project. This includes a share of the Programme
Manager and Programme Quality Coordinator, M&E and finance staff. The management
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structure proposed will ensure that it is able to effectively oversee all programmatic,
financial and contractual aspects of the programme, and provide regular programmatic and
financial reports to Abdullah Fatima Foundation and SUPREME.
b. Personnel: This covers programme staff working directly on the programme, as
well as the necessary support staff based in Lagos and the respective field offices. Support
to staff is needed to ensure the programme has the requisite human resource,
procurement, logistics finance and programme management support. Field based support
and programme team have been included, who are responsible for the day-to-day
management of the programme.

c. Office running costs: This includes the costs of rent, utilities, consumables and
office equipment for Abdullah Fatima Foundation and field offices.
d. Security: Included in the office running costs are security costs, this is to cover the
cost of security firms, including alarms, at their respective offices, it is essential to ensure
that our staff and beneficiaries are able to operate in safety. The security costs in the budget
will also cover costs such as armed escorts (required for all field travel), communications
and additional security required for protection of premises.
e. Workshops/training: included is training and workshops for Field officials and
communities across all of the expected outputs. These include per diems, materials,
transport and other costs. A total of 10% of the total budget is allocated to this line.
f. Monitoring and Evaluation: This includes the costs of quarterly review, mid-term
internal review, and end of project evaluation.
g. Transport: This includes transport of staff, materials, accommodation and per
diems for staff travel.

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 ABDULLAH FATIMA FOUNDATION

COMMUNITY LIVELIHOOD INTERVENTION PROJECT

BUDGET BREAKDOWN

ITEM DESCRIPTION AMOUNT

01 Food Supply to 5,000,000 Households N25 Billion Naira

02 Payment of School and Examination Fees – N10.5 Billion Naira

WASSCE, NECO, GCE, JAMB for 20,000
Students at the Project Communities; Supply of
Textbooks, Sandals, etc.

03 Medical Outreach for Treatment of Partial

Blindness; Surgeries; Malaria/Typhoid; Arthritis;
N7 Billion Naira
Child Delivery, at the Project Communities

04 Build and Equipping Community Health Facilities N13 Billion Naira

04 Vocational Skills Training and Empowerment of

identified citizens of the Project Communities –
Procurement of Machines and Equipment;
Payment for Shops; and Cash Grant for Working N14.030 Billion Naira
Capital

05 Procurement of 15,000 Tricycles (Keke) N15 Billion Naira

06 Procurement of 15,000 Motor Bikes N7 Billion Naira

07 Rehabilitation of Dilapidated School Structures N17 Billion Naira

and Market Structures and Building of Schools
for Street Children

08 Drilling of Boreholes and Treatment of Existing N2.5 Billion Naira

Boreholes at the Project Location/Communities

09 Add: Administrative Costs @ .02% N2.17 Billion Naira

TOTAL BUDGET ESTIMATE N108.5 Billion

ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHT BILLION FIVE HUNDRED MILLION NAIRA ONLY.
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