This report is WFP’s flagship publication and the main reporting mechanism of the School Meals Coalition. It provides an overview on how countries support their children through effective school feeding programmes.
WFP has six decades of experience supporting school feeding and a trajectory of working with more than 100 countries to set up sustainable national school feeding programmes. This factsheet provides an overview on school feeding programmes and their impact.
In 2021, WFP provided school meals or snacks to 15.5 million schoolchildren in 78 countries. Learn more about WFP School Feeding activities in 2021 with this infographic.
The Joint School Feeding Transition Strategy outlines the initial phase of handover of school feeding implementation and management from WFP to the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of Cambodia.
In 2020, WFP provided school meals or snacks to 15 million schoolchildren. Learn more about WFP School Feeding activities in 2020 with this infographic.
WFP commissioned an agricultural value chain assessment to guide Sierra Leone’s transition to home-grown school feeding. The assessment made recommendations around more than a dozen local foods.
This factsheet provides an overview on school feeding programmes and their impact. WFP has six decades of experience supporting school feeding and a trajectory of working with more than 100 countries to set up sustainable national school feeding programmes.
While smallholder farmers are the primary food producers in Southern Africa, contributing to 90 percent of food production in some countries, often systems in the region do not support profitability for them. WFP is working across Southern Africa to address bottlenecks in food systems to enhance the resilience of smallholder farmers. This factsheet gives an overview of WFP’s approach to smallholder farmers.
This decentralized evaluation was commissioned by WFP Rwanda Country Office and covers United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition (“McGovern-Dole”) Programme’s Support in Rwanda (2016-2021). It was carried out in 2021. The evaluation was commissioned to examine the project’s impact and identifies lessons for future programming and was intended for both accountability and learning purposes. It focused on assessing the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact and sustainability.
In Cambodia, WFP is working closely together with the Government to build a platform, centred around schools, to improve nutrition and educational outcomes and build smallholder farmer’s livelihoods.
This study aimed to establish a snapshot of the current landscape of home-grown school feeding in West and Central Africa, identifying its current objectives, opportunities and challenges and providing a future perspective of where HGSF can move towards with capitalization, sharing and cooperation.
WFP piloted the implementation of Iron Fortified Rice through School Feeding in Maguindanao, Philippines. This report documents the results of the demonstrating the potential of Homegrown School Feeding as a model for scaled-up food fortification in BARMM and eventually in the whole country.
This publication provides an analysis of the state of school feeding in 2020, describes the impact of COVID-19 on school feeding around the world and presents what can be done to restore this global safety net.
WFP has six decades of experience supporting school feeding and a trajectory of working with more than 100 countries to set up sustainable national school feeding programmes. This factsheet provides an overview on school feeding programmes and their impact in 2020.
This report presents the findings of the cost-benefit analysis of school meals programmes in Laos carried out jointly by the Ministry of Education and Sports, the World Food Programme and MasterCard. This details the cost-benefit analysis of school meals throughout a beneficiary's lifetime.
This two-page document presents the results of the project "Response to 'El Niño' in the Dry Corridor of Central America" between 2016 and 2018. Thanks to the European Union's 10-million financial support, WFP worked with more than 32,200 people in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua to help them adapt to the impact of drought and improve the livelihoods of their families and communities through the creation of assets and the generation of income.
This resource framework is intended as a guidance tool for the design, implementation and monitoring of home-grown school feeding programmes. It was jointly produced by WFP, FAO, IFAD, NEPAD, GCNF and PCD.
