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Food for Education and the Essential Package for School-age Children

Food for Education and the Essential Package for School-age Children. Flora Sibanda-Mulder Senior Advisor UNICEF/WFP Collaboration 21 July 2005. Problems. Education Health Nutrition. Investing in development. The quick wins

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Food for Education and the Essential Package for School-age Children

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  1. Food for Education and the Essential Package for School-age Children Flora Sibanda-Mulder Senior Advisor UNICEF/WFP Collaboration 21 July 2005

  2. Problems • Education • Health • Nutrition

  3. Investing in development • The quick wins • Free mass distribution of impregnated treated nets and effective malaria medicines.. • Abolishing user fees in primary schools …. • Successful completion of the 3 by 5 campaign to bringing AIDS patients • Expansion of school feeding programmes to cover all children in hunger hotspots using locally produced food • Massive replenishment of soil nutrients

  4. An Appalling Reality • There are 300 million chronically hungry children in the world today. • Of these, some 180 million go to school on an empty stomach. • 120 million do not attend school at all - 55% of them are girls. • 150 million primary school children drop out before completing five years of education - About two-thirds of them are girls.

  5. FFE - Expected outcomes • Enhanced Enrolment • Increased Regular Attendance • Reduced Dropout • Improved Learning • Contribute to better nutrition

  6. School Feeding Works • 2.5 additional school days per month • Higher enrolment for boys 12% and girls 9% • Number of girls per boy enrolled increased by • 16% in 4 years • Take-home rations: girls’ enrolment higher than 75%

  7. FFE coverage trends • Going up, but rather slowly. • Resources vary from year to year from country to country. • Planned targets are higher than what is actually achieved due to lack of resources.

  8. Our Goal • 2000: 12.3 million children • 2003: 16 million children • By 2005: 32 million children • By 2007: 50 million

  9. What would we like to offer the 50 million children? Not only food but An Essential Package of interventions to address main problems that hinder education

  10. Breaking the cycle School feeding & take home rations • Getting children, especially girls, into school and keeping them there. • Ensuring that health and nutrition are included in the school curriculum; involving local health service providers; working with families. Health & Nutrition Services Capacity building • Providing training to health and school staff.

  11. The Essential Package Of Education, Health and Nutrition Interventions

  12. A Child’s Visionof Child-Friendly Schools • Safe, nutritious food • Clean Water • Proper sanitation • School gardens • A clean school environment

  13. Support to Basic Education School Feeding Gardens Latrines Security Drinking water Hygiene Health HIV/AIDS Non-food items Fuel-saving stoves Take home rations Canteens Essential Package of school-based interventions

  14. Food, Health and Care in Support of EFA Education For All  Increase in human capital Improve nutrition and relieve short-term hunger Improve learning capacity Increase enrolment, attendance, retention Help improve HEALTH and NUTRITIONAL status FOOD Increase consumption of food and nutrients CARE Health, Nutrition and Hygiene education HEALTH Deworming Water and Sanitation

  15. Policy, Institutional and Financial Issues

  16. Resources New Resources, New Sources: • Walk the World • “Family to family” contribution campaign (at the planning stage): If every family from the developed world authorises a monthly deduction of €1 from their credit card or bank account we can feed 49 million extra children.

  17. Capacity • To find out where the hungry children are • Identifying gaps in planned versus actual beneficiaries for every country • Identifying coverage of non-WFP FFE programmes • Prioritising countries and estimating needs • To work with partners in order to implement the programme effectively • To have at least basic educational infrastructure and staffing in schools.

  18. Making clear to governments from the beginning that the programme will be transferred to them in the future Six elements of a successful exit strategy: Setting milestones for achievement Government commitment Community contributions Technical support to build school feeding capacity Programme leadership and communication Involving the private sector Sustainability

  19. Thank You

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