SCHOOL FEEDING POLICY & STRATEGY

WFP School Feeding

Current Situation

• 59 million59 million school-age children go to school hungry

• By 2015, an estimated additional 46 millionadditional 46 million school-age children will join school

WFP is the largest

organizer of school feeding programmes in the world but reaches only

20 million20 million today

Vision for 2015

WFP will advocate for and ensure that WFP will advocate for and ensure that no child goes to school hungry no child goes to school hungry by 2015by 2015WFP will advocate for and ensure that WFP will advocate for and ensure that

no child goes to school hungry no child goes to school hungry by 2015by 2015

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Income TransferIncome Transfer

EducationEducation

NutritionNutrition

Equitable Access

Equitable Access

SF is a scaleable, effective social protection instrument, most effective as a safety net when it targets poorest areas

SF can help to get children into school and help to keep them there and help them learn.

When SF rations are combined with de-worming and micronutrient fortification they offer important nutritional benefits.

Proven positive contribution of school feeding to gender equality. Access to school for OVCs, IDP, HIV affected

Local Development

Local Development

Spin offs- linkages to community development, local production, health and nutrition/ essential package interventions

WHY : SF Outcomes

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Current Global Context means that vision is feasible

Legend

Category 1Category 2Category 3No data available

Figure 4. School feeding: Country programs (2006-08)Category 1: Countries where school feeding is available in most schools, sometimes or always with subsidies for some or all children; Category 2: Countries where school feeding is available in most schools some of the time; Category 3: Countries where school feeding is available primarily in the most food insecure regions.

Sources: http://www.schoolsandhealth.org/Pages/SchoolNutritionFoodforEducation.aspx

School Feeding Around the World

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New OpportunitiesNew Opportunities

Increasing interest by national governments: Recent examples include: Senegal, Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Mali,

Malawi, Tanzania, Cape Verde, Angola, and Timor LesteCommunities like School Feeding

Much appreciated by local communities

Innovative Partnerships in School feeding

Brazil, Chile, India, Japan, Global Child Nutrition Foundation (USA), JAM: good national school feeding experience, technical support for other countries

Regional networks (LA-RAE, Sahel Alliance, African school feeding network, Middle East and Asia initiatives)

Private sector partnerships – new nutritional products

HGSF/Purchase for Progress

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OpportunitiesOpportunities

Funding Architecture:

Multi-year funding – incredible improvement

Cash funding to complement Food-Aid

Government Funding (Paris declaration)

Serious Advocacy for large scale safety net programmes:

World Bank, DFID, US see school feeding as a way to reach the hungry

Calls for WFP as global leader to help set standards, national strategies and guide international efforts on school feeding

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OpportunitiesOpportunities

5. Good basis of international recognition, support for school feeding from different sectors (education, food security, agriculture, social protection, etc.):

World Food Summit (1996) African Union/NEPAD: Home-grown school feeding Commission for

Africa (2005) (G8) United Nations World Summit (2005): school feeding recommended

as “Quick Win” solution to achieve MDGs Millennium Project (2005) African Union/European Union Summit (2007) High-Level Group on Education for All (2007) Yokohama Declaration – TICAD IV Japan (2008) UN Secretary General’s Special Task Force on Rising Food Prices

(2008) World Bank Global Food Crisis Response Program (2008) Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting (2008)

GOVERNMENTS – 70 National Governments –main actor implementation of school feeding programmes. Important Donors (McGovern-Dole, Canada, Italy, Brazil)

NGOs –WFP w/ 54 international NGOs (WVI, CRS, NRC, CARE, Plan Intl’, and NRC, Feed the Children) and 800 local NGOs (largest in Sudan, Colombia, DRC);

UNICEF. collaborate in 49 countries on the essential package intervention.

WORLD BANK: High food prices scale up, June 2009 joint publication on school feeding, compact (research, assesments, scale-up)

WHO, Clinton Global Initiative and Deworm the World: deworming in 29 percent of WFP-assisted school feeding projects and reached 12 million children.

USDA/GATES: 4 County Assessments on SF links to small holder farmers

The Global Child Nutrition Foundation (GCNF) : technical assistance to support school feeding programs

UNILEVER (funding, advocacy campaigns to improve nutrition, hygiene and health behaviour of school children)

Wide range of Existing PartnershipsWide range of Existing Partnerships

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CHALLENGESCHALLENGES

1) Funding to scale-up school feeding worldwide

2) Design and quality of some programmes

3) Government ownership and leadership

4) Support to Governments to support transition

5) Co-ordination and cooperation – fragmentation

Pillars of WFP Strategy

Implementation Support

•Tools and process support to develop

national SF strategies

•Programme guidance •SF Assessment

Implementation Support

•Tools and process support to develop

national SF strategies

•Programme guidance •SF Assessment

WFP will advocate for and ensure that WFP will advocate for and ensure that no child goes to school hungry no child goes to school hungry by 2015by 2015WFP will advocate for and ensure that WFP will advocate for and ensure that

no child goes to school hungry no child goes to school hungry by 2015by 2015

Strategic Thought

Leadership

•Build global good practices and knowledge base

• Research gaps

•Centre of excellence

Strategic Thought

Leadership

•Build global good practices and knowledge base

• Research gaps

•Centre of excellence

Global Partnership, Advocacy & Fundraising

•Host high-level conference on School Feeding

•Funding to scale-up

•Build global alliance

Global Partnership, Advocacy & Fundraising

•Host high-level conference on School Feeding

•Funding to scale-up

•Build global alliance

VISION:

HOW WE

PLANTO GET

THERE:

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Policy ChangesPolicy Changes New Generation School FeedingNew Generation School Feeding

New Strategic & Policy Directions

• Safety Net Outcome-Joint Safety Net Outcome-Joint WB/WFP analysis : SF has WB/WFP analysis : SF has explicit or implicit transfer of explicit or implicit transfer of resources to householdsresources to households

• WFP focus on essential WFP focus on essential essential parts of essential essential parts of essential package (micronutrients, package (micronutrients, fuel-efficient stoves)fuel-efficient stoves)

• Support to pre-schoolsSupport to pre-schools

• WFP to support WFP to support sustainable, nationally sustainable, nationally owned- School Feeding owned- School Feeding Programmes that aim Programmes that aim (eventually) to be (eventually) to be sourced entirely from sourced entirely from within the national within the national borders of a countryborders of a country

THE TRANSITION OF SCHOOL FEEDING

Programs rely mostly on external funding and implementation

Programs rely on national funding and implementation

Policy framework for school

feedingLimited Increased Strong Strong Strong

Govt financial capacity Limited Moderate Increased Strong Strong

Gov’t institutional

capacityLimited Weak Moderate Increased Strong

WFP’s role is to support the transition process

Countries that are advanced in the transition to national ownership

  SF countriesBenin   X

Côte D'Ivoire   X

Ghana X

Kenya X

Malawi X

Mali X

Rwanda X

Senegal X

Sierra Leone X

Tanzania X

Pakistan X

The five ‘gold’ quality standards

• Clear national policy framework for school feeding

• Strong institutional structure and coordination

• Stable funding and planning

• Sound programme design and implementation

• Community participation and ownership

WFP proposed strategy for systematic process of programme design and dialogue with government :

Steps of the process

• High level government meetings (with WB) on SF policy• National school feeding strategy stakeholder workshop • School feeding assessment • School feeding project design and implementation plan

The tools to support the process • New school feeding programme ‘gold’ standards • New school feeding programme design tools • National School Feeding Strategy Workshop materials• Facilitators (TOT planned) • SF assessment/ cadre of experts • Knowledge base : WFP/WB publication, HGSF , lessons

learned and best practices (website upgrade)

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