Implementing School Feeding in an Emergency: Lessons from Sudan

Rome (Italy), World Food Programme (WFP): 2024.

English

14 p.

ELR1951

School feeding provides a practical continuum of support to school children from emergency to stability providing all manner of support and ensuring some continuity. In countries like Sudan, where oscillation between conflict, disasters and peace is common, WFP and other actors need to understand the flexibility of school feeding as a building block towards national resilience. The ability by WFP in SUdan to understand the context and be able to tailor the programme and ensure continued support to children has been instrumental in providing hope, protection, access to nutritious meals and learning, even as the environment kept changing. Perhaps among the key lessons is the critical role that integrated programming plays in connecting the dots-from schools to communities, enhancing communities’ resilience and moral support. This required high level of management support and commitment, making difficult decisions to deliver a complex HGSF model in a highly fragile context.

Electronic ed.

ELR 1951

English