Economic Development
Building resilient livelihoods through enterprise, jobs, food security and rural development.
A community-based economy
Fostering a community-based economy is fundamental to SBF-Community operations. Central to our approach is empowering people, developing confidence, and supporting them in building the basic assets needed to develop resilient livelihoods.
The project was initiated with the key objective of igniting micro-enterprise development and identifying viable and sustainable projects geared towards food, jobs, and rural infrastructural development. It anchors four cardinal approaches:
Key focus areas
- Food & agricultural productivity
- Job creation via entrepreneurship
- Rural infrastructural development
- Enterprise development support services
Partnership for Food, Jobs & Rural Infrastructure (PFJRI)
We have realised that rural communities face persistent, extreme poverty, limited access to resources and markets, and limited support for resilience to climate change. Family-farming policies are crucial: family farming is diverse, with many farmers landless or dependent on the labour market, while small commercial farms use most of their own labour. It is therefore important to develop solutions that address these different needs.
The Partnership for Food, Job & Rural Infrastructural Development Initiative (PFJRI) proffers strategic solutions to these issues in communities across Nigeria. We are open to partnerships with public institutions and civil society organisations to collect data, analyse causal linkages, and assess the impact of interventions, in order to design effective policies and investments.