Santé et nutrition en milieu scolaire du Programme alimentaire mondial

The World Food Programme (WFP) School Health and Nutrition project provides school girls and boys with improved and equal nutrition status through increased access to gender-responsive school-based nutrition packages nutrition and health education interventions and gender-inclusive engagement of local smallholder farmers. The three-year (FY2023-2025) $11.2 million project provides two daily nutritious meals to over 32 000 schoolchildren in vulnerable food insecure regions of Somalia and South Sudan. WFP also builds community resilience by linking female smallholder farmers to local agricultural support programmes to increase the use of women-produced local crops. The project also supports Canada’s international assistance and the strategic priorities for Somalia and South Sudan through women’s economic empowerment and human capital development through innovative gender-responsive nutrition-sensitive shock-responsive interventions and behaviour-change communication.

The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) increased diet diversity and an improvement in the nutritional/micronutrient status of targeted schoolchildren; (2) improved psycho-social (attention motivation and cognition) for boys and girls due to project activities; (3) increased rates of registration attendance and retention in school-aged girls and boys and improved educational performance and long-term prospects for livelihoods; and (4) improved resilience by communities due to social and behavioural change communication interventions and improved gender-inclusive market linkages at the local level.