TOOL KIT FOR SUSTAINABLE SCHOOL FEEDING

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1 TOOL KIT FOR SUSTAINABLE SCHOOL FEEDING LIFTING SCHOOL CHILDREN OUT OF THE HUNGER TRAP GCNF-PCD meeting on HGSF, Accra 1-5 June, 2010

2 45 years of experience in school feeding yielded 8 quality standards 1. Strategy for sustainability 2. Sound alignment with national policy frameworks 3. Stable funding and budgeting 4. Needs based, cost-effective quality program design 5. Strong institutional arrangements for implementation, monitoring and accountability 6. Strategies for local production and sourcing 7. Strong partnerships and inter-sector coordination 8. Strong community participation ownership 2

3 New approach objectives are to improve quality, widen coverage and secure sustainability WFP's vision To reduce hunger among school children so that hunger is not an obstacle to their development Improve quality Improve effectiveness Improve targeting of the intended beneficiaries Identify the most appropriate modalities and food baskets Widen benefits: e.g. link to local production, synergies with add-on interventions Improve efficiency Assess costs, benefits, and tradeoffs to ensure costs are contained Widen coverage Increase reach Estimated 66M school children in need of SF Additional 72 million children worldwide not attending school at all A more effective and efficient implementation of the SF programme would allow to address more recipients with the same resources Secure sustainability Ensure transition to sustainable nationally owned programmes Support mainstream of SF into national policies Enhance national Governments technical capacity for implementation Provide additional assistance with resourcing and financing strategies Coordinate partnership with NGOs, private sector and local communities Key to shift School Feeding ownership to national governments & mainstream it into national policies 3

4 Toolkit for sustainable school feeding programs Stakeholders workshop Need & coverage analysis Cost analysis Investment case Quality standards assessment Sustainability strategy template Model option methodology 4

5 Examples of tools application 5

6 Stakeholder Workshop Structure SF as a safety net Country context Rethinking SF/WFP's new SF policy and strategy Investment case for SF Where is the country regarding SF? School feeding programs present in the country Other key school health & nutrition activities Analysis of efficiency, coverage vs. needs Where do we want to go? Country vision of SF Options for scale-up What are the quality standards for SF? Identifying key issues for quality and sustainability Where is the country regarding the SF quality standards? Assessing current SFP against quality standards: achievements, shortcomings What are the next to transition to sustainable SF? Identifying immediate actions Outlining responses Coordination Three workshops have been conducted in Kenya, Ghana and Laos PDR, with support from the WB and WFP 6

7 SF as an investment case: Nutrition/health and educational benefits mutually reinforcing effects make school meals a unique and robust intervention.. generates higher productivity.. Time spent in school Productivity Enrolment Attendance Dropout Time spent in school School time quality Increased time spent in school and better school time quality.. Better Education Productivity Lifetime years.. resulting in higher earnings over longer and healthier life Lifetime Earnings Cognition Micronutrient deficiency School time quality Time spent in school School time quality x Time spent in school X School time quality Productivity.. enhances disease awareness and productive life years.. Productive life Lifetime years x Productivity Lifetime years X 7

8 An investment of $146 per child over 8 yrs of primary school in Kenya creates ~$2400 with a benefit/cost ratio of ~16 $ Better education, health and higher income lead to increased lifetime Transfer value increases household income $90 Transfer Value $41 ROI $146 Costs Additional income partially invested yielding returns... Better education and health increase productivity and wages during working life $1782 Productivity increase $511 Increase in disability adjusted life years Age 8

9 Benchmarked WFP/GES programme against other "meals only" programmes Indexed cost, Ghana 2009 = standard cost per beneficiary, meals only programmes WFP/GES programme cost higher than 2008 WFP average

10 Defined a standardized annual cost per recipient in order to compare the different projects Actual yearly cost per recipient Feeding days normalization Ration kilocalories normalization Food pipeline breaks normalization Standardized yearly cost per recipient Accounts for variations in feeding days across programs Accounts for variations in kilocalories per ration across programs Accounts for differences between planned food delivery and actual food delivered 10

11 Cost analysis of school feeding programs in Ghana Cost per day per child $0.29 $0.01 $0.29 $0.09 $0.35 $0.05 $0.28 $0.20 $0.30 Overhead Operating costs GSFP provides $0.28 /day for 3 GSFP days $0.11 /day for 2 WFP/GES days GSFP subsidies WFP s 2-day support to ensure all schools receive the same value for school feeding Including funding for activities not covered by WFP/GES (firewood, water, cooks salary, pottery, etc.) GSFP WFP/GES GSFP/ WFP/GES Subsidy currently based on WFP purchase value of commodities Should be based on local market prices Validity of combined program may need to be re-evaluated 11

12 WFP/GES programme should be in line with WFP average in 2010 Costs of WFP/GES programme can be reduced in 2010 Cost per day per child $0.22 $0.04 $0.29 $0.09 $0.21 $0.06 Overhead To exclude costs not related to the program $0.18 $0.20 $0.15 Operating costs Ration change from CSB to rice, pulses & micronutrient powder decreases commodity costs by ~35% Equivalent nutritional value Global average Target 12

13 SF Needs and Coverage: Bangladesh Case In Bangladesh about 6.1 M school-age children live below the poverty line and 3.9 M live in extreme poverty School age children (000s) With WFP s coverage of 600,000 Total children of pre-primary and primary school age in priority upazilas All enrolled children 2 M 600 Children receiving SF in priority upazilas and GAP School aged children out of school Children receiving school feeding GAP Planned 2011 SFP by Government and the planned government project for 2 million, a 0.8M Gap will still remain in 2011, prioritized based on extreme poverty and education indicators. This excludes 0.8 M out of school children, and children in low targeting priority district (green in the map) 13

14 Expansion will require retargeting based on latest poverty and education indicators 1 Current programme Expanded programme Targeting based on latest poverty maps and completions rates (2008) Changes in indicators require some readjustment of coverage to ensure highest priority upazilas are reached Based on new indicators 106 priority upazilas have been identified SF present in upazila 14

15 Strategy for sustainability QUALITY STANDARD 3 : STABLE FUNDING AND BUDGETING ULTIMATE MILESTONE : 3.1: There is a budget line for school feeding and national funds from the Government in addition to those school feeding budgets and funds provided on an extra-budgetary basis by WFP or NGOs 3.2: Donor funding, whether through the government, WFP, NGO or others, is stable and multiyear, where possible, to ensure that the needs of school feeding programmes are covered without pipeline breaks 3.3: The district-, regional- and national-level structures include school feeding in their annual budgets and plans Key assessment findings PROCESS MILESTONES PROCESS ACTIVITIES WHO BY WHEN SOURCE OF FUNDING 15

16 Example of milestones and activities Quality standard 3: Stable funding and budgeting Examples of process milestones Sub-national levels Inclusion of SF cost in provincial/subnational annual budget plans for decentralized models Donors support The duration of donor assistance is clearly communicated to the government to allow the government to build financial capacity incrementally Interim funding solutions are in place to support the government transition from external funding Examples of process activities Sub-national levels Provide guidance to provincial authorities on budgeting SF cost components Calculate cost of implementing SF at provincial level Provide necessary training for budgeting at sub-national level Donors support Discuss with donors the duration of their assistance to the government to foster an understanding of the timeline the government has to enhance its financial capacity to take-over the school feeding programme Share with donors government s sourcing plans for national SFP 16

17 Quality standards assessment The quality standard assessment The model option methodology is to be developed 17

18 THANK YOU 18

19 Background slides 19

20 WFP s implementation approach WFP will support national governments who seek to widen coverage and improve the quality and sustainability of school feeding programmes Implementation support Implementation, capacity development and technical support of WFP programmes and support to develop national programmes Support achieving the 8 quality standards, national leadership and ownership to create a new generation of school feeding Create new SF tools and processes supporting 10 learning pilots (with WB) Strategic thought leadership Undertake research to fill key knowledge gaps regarding school feeding as a safety net in national hunger reduction strategies Develop as a centre of knowledge and best practices on SF Facilitate learning supporting the dissemination and sharing of knowledge and expertise (south-south/north-south). Global partnership, advocacy & fundraising Developing strategic partnerships to support strategy implementation Develop specific strategies for stimulating international dialogue Work towards establishing a Global Alliance on SF to support global advocacy for school feeding Seek funding for both WFP and national scale-up of school feeding programmes 20