International Development Grant
Innovations in Sustainable School Feeding
Project Number: CA-3-D000295001
Status: Closed
Country/Region:
Maximum Contribution: $19,650,000.00
Start Date: March 11, 2014
End Date: March 31, 2016
Duration: 2.1 years
Project Description
This initiative seeks to improve the health and education of schoolchildren by providing school meals and health and sanitation facilities in 1 700 schools in marginalized drought-prone areas of Kenya. The initiative uses innovative market-based approaches that build linkages between schools and local farmers and traders to ensure a steady supply of quality food. School feeding programs improve student performance and provide parents with an incentive to send their children to school. This initiative ensures the continuous delivery of the Kenyan school-feeding program while improving the ability of local authorities to transition to a successful program managed by the Kenyan government.
Expected Results
The expected intermediate outcomes for this project include: (i) improved educational attainment and health status of school children in most disadvantaged rural areas; (ii) appropriate and accountable Government-owned school meal programs for drought-prone areas.
Progress & Results Achieved
Results achieved as of the end of the project (April 2016) include: (1) 785 453 children received school meals in primary schools in the Arid and Semi-Arid lands of Kenya; (2) the implementation of an innovative cash transfer to school approach was completed in Samburu County; (3) the World Food Program (WFP) reached around 36 000 farmers to improve their capacity to access and sell their grains to structured markets; (4) 233 traders supplied food to schools in exchange for cash transfers from WFP; (5) public health officers from Isiolo and Samburu were trained on how to test food quality for the government's Home-grown School Meals Programme; and (6) helped increase the capacity of the Kenyan Government to develop policies strategies and guidelines model new approaches provide training joint monitoring and advocacy for more timely resources.
Key Information
Executing Agency:
WFP - World Food Programme
Reporting Organization:
Global Affairs Canada
Program:
WGM Africa
Last Modified:
September 19, 2025
Development Classifications
DAC Sector:
Aid Type: Contributions to specific-purpose programmes and funds managed by implementing partners
Collaboration: Bilateral
Finance Type: Aid grant excluding debt reorganisation
Selection Mechanism:
Department-Initiated