Support to School Health and Nutrition – World Food Programme

This World Food Programme project is a coronavirus (COVID-19) emergency response initiative of $10 million for 18 months in South Sudan and Somalia. The project aims to provide integrated activities to support children’s wellbeing health and nutrition. Project activities include: 1) delivering school meals take-home rations and micronutrient supplementation and deworming to 111 500 school children in Somalia and South Sudan; and (2) ensuring adherence to COVID-19 mitigation measures.

The expected outcomes for this project include: (1) increased access to nutritious food and improved health by providing school meals take-home rations micronutrient supplementation and deworming for girls and boys in South Sudan and Somalia; (2) improved access to a healthier and adequate learning environment (including COVID-19 mitigation measures) for girls and boys in South Sudan and Somalia; (3) increased access to adequate sanitation and hygiene services for girls and boys especially adolescent girls in South Sudan and Somalia; (4) trained teachers on school health and nutrition hygiene and the menstrual hygiene movement COVID-19 mitigation measures and psychosocial support with a focus on adolescent girls; (5) sensitized target communities including adolescent boys and girls parents teachers and local traditional authorities and leaders on girls’ education nutrition social and health rights and on gender-based violence (GBV); and (6) improved awareness among target groups in the communities on girls’ education knowledge nutrition health and reproductive health and on GBV.