Annual Country Report 2023: Sao Tome and Principe. Country Strategic Plan 2019-2023

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme, 2023.

English

46 p.

ELR2267

WFP worked to achieve two key goals. Firstly, it maintained its support for homegrown school feeding (HGSF) and SHF to help them benefit from a conducive policy framework and improved access to basic inputs such as technology, electricity, and water. Secondly, WFP organized knowledge-building initiatives to strengthen smallholders' capacities in agricultural and organizational techniques to help improve their access to markets. Through a gender-sensitive approach, 27 percent of the participants were women, which is impressive compared to the country’s 5 percent participation rate of women in the private sector. The largest operation remained the National School Meals and Health Programme (PNASE, in Portuguese), currently implemented by the government. WFP 's support to PNASE directly benefited 24 schools and involved 62 SHF who produced and supplied fresh and nutritious food to the programme as an institutional market. It is important to note that the overall PNASE operation reached 50,000 school children in the country and has the potential to reach more.

Electronic ed.

ELR 2267

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