FFE Best Practices
How can food assistance best support education?
FFE are often complex interventions, requiring inputs from many different actors at different levels, from school-children down to governments and international agencies.
- Planning FFE
- Problem analysis
- Targeting
- Programme design
- Importance of integrated programming (e.g. FRESH, INEE)
- Monitoring and evaluation
Examples of Best Practices: Cape Verde
Cape Verde: Transferring a Success Programme To Government
Cape Verde is an archipelago of 10 islands, approximately 450 km off the coast of Senegal, with a population of just over 450,000. With a gross national product (GNP) per capita of US$ 1,930 in 2005, Cape Verde is distinguished in sub-Saharan Africa by its performances in growth and human development. The rate of absolute poverty fell from 49 percent in 1989 to 36.7 percent in 2002. Cape Verde is classified as a food-deficit country. Even in years of good rainfall, the country's cereal (maize) production meets less than 20 percent of the population's needs. Droughts are recurrent and the country lacks natural resources. On the political front, Cape Verde is a well-established functioning democracy that has made impressive political and legal reforms and entrenched the rule of law. Having emerged from a one-party political system, the country has held four democratic general elections since 1991, with the most recent election taking place in February 2006. WFP has supported school feeding in Cape Verde since 1979. As a result, the country currently has one of the highest primary school enrolment rates in Africa. Significant progress has been made in Cape Verde since basic education became available throughout the country in 1991. But many children would stop going to school if no meal was provided as poverty and food insecurity are not restricted to specific areas but are a nationwide concern. It is quite clear that, in order to achieve higher attendance, school meals need to continue to be sustainable for some time to come.
The government has therefore decided to continue the school feeding programme when WFP gradually phases out its assistance during the coming years. The success of this will depend mainly on what parental and government support is available for the school feeding project. In 2006 efforts were concentrated on capacity-building and providing support to the Government in establishing new partnerships with the Government of Brazil and through initiatives such as the Sahel Alliance for Education
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