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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