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SCHOOL FEEDING POLICY & STRATEGY

SCHOOL FEEDING POLICY & STRATEGY. WFP School Feeding. Current Situation. 59 million school-age children go to school hungry By 2015, an estimated additional 46 million school-age children will join school.

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SCHOOL FEEDING POLICY & STRATEGY

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  1. SCHOOL FEEDING POLICY & STRATEGY WFP School Feeding

  2. Current Situation • 59 million school-age children go to school hungry • By 2015, an estimated additional 46 million school-age children will join school WFP is the largest organizer of school feeding programmes in the world but reaches only 20 million today

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

  4. WHY : SF Outcomes • SF is a scaleable, effective social protection instrument, most effective as a safety net when it targets poorest areas Income Transfer • SF can help to get children into school and help to keep them there and help them learn. Education • When SF rations are combined with de-worming and micronutrient fortification they offer important nutritional benefits. Nutrition • Proven positive contribution of school feeding to gender equality. Access to school for OVCs, IDP, HIV affected Equitable Access • Spin offs- linkages to community development, local production, health and nutrition/ essential package interventions Local Development 4

  5. Current Global Context means that vision is feasible 5

  6. School Feeding Around the World • Legend • Category 1 • Category 2 • Category 3 • No data available Sources: http://www.schoolsandhealth.org/Pages/SchoolNutritionFoodforEducation.aspx 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.

  7. New Opportunities 1. Increasing interest by national governments: • Recent examples include: Senegal, Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Mali, Malawi, Tanzania, Cape Verde, Angola, and Timor Leste • Communities like School Feeding • Much appreciated by local communities 2. 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 7

  8. Opportunities 3. • 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 4. 8

  9. Opportunities 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) 9

  10. Wide range of Existing Partnerships 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)

  11. CHALLENGES 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 11

  12. Pillars of WFP Strategy WFP will advocate for and ensure that no child goes to school hungry by 2015 VISION: • Implementation Support • Tools and process support to develop national SF strategies • Programme guidance • SF Assessment • 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 HOW WE PLANTO GET THERE:

  13. New Strategic & Policy Directions Policy Changes New Generation School Feeding • Safety Net Outcome-Joint WB/WFP analysis : SF has explicit or implicit transfer of resources to households • WFP focus on essential essential parts of essential package (micronutrients, fuel-efficient stoves) • Support to pre-schools • WFP to support sustainable, nationally owned- School Feeding Programmes that aim (eventually) to be sourced entirely from within the national borders of a country 13

  14. THE TRANSITION OF SCHOOL FEEDING WFP’s role is to support the transition process

  15. Countries that are advanced in the transition to national ownership

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. 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)

  19. Thanks What do you think? Questions & Feedback

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