WFP Helping to promote education in Malawi

through the School Feeding Programme.

Specific objectives

• Improve enrolment and attendance in all

grades, especially of girls and orphans.
• Improve pupils capacity to concentrate and
assimilate information by reducing short-
term hunger.
• Contribute in reducing disparities in
enrolment and drop-out rates between boys
and girls especially in standards 5-8.

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 Selection of schools

• Food Security Assessment reports provide the data

for geographical targeting.
• The selection of beneficiary schools within
targeted districts is jointly undertaken with the
Ministry of Education (MoE).
• Schools are selected based on accessibility,
presence of potable water and sanitation facilities,
and demonstrated willingness of community
members to participate in the project activities.
• Other criteria included the remoteness of the
school and the absence of similar intervention

Geographical Distribution of Schools

Region District No. of schools Schools per

Region
South Thyolo 9 91
Chikwawa 14
Nsanje 34
Mangochi 34
Centre Ku 44 148
LL 33
Dedza 27
Salima 22
Ntcheu 22
North N/bay 10 10

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 Food Basket

There are two components of the food basket:

• Wet Feeding - A daily on-site feeding for all children.100

gm CSB is provided. This contributes 28% of daily caloric
requirements and 55% protein.

• THRs - to encourage regular attendance of girls and double

orphan boys. THRs are provided after a child attends 18/22
school days/month

Take Home Rations

THR are provided to all girls and double boys as

follows:

• Grade 1-4: Only in the lean season (Jan – Mar)

• Grade 5-8: Throughout the school year (Jan- Nov)

• The quantities received is 12.5Kg maize/maize

meal per month

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 Other Activities (1)

Deworming Activities
• Conducted jointly with MOH & MOE
• They include;
- orientation training of teachers, community leaders,
community health staff
- baseline surveys
- drug administration
- Development and distribution of IEC materials

Other Activities (2)

Fuel efficient stoves

• Supported 115 schools
• They save time as cooking
time is reduced
• Economical as less firewood
is used
• Smoke free, hence not a
health hazard
• Saves environment as less
firewood is used

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 Other Activities (3)

Kitchen Materials
• Supported 100 schools
with corrugated iron
sheets for roofing kitchens
• This has improved hygiene
• This has enabled the schools
to cook meals throughout
the school year even in rainy
seasons

Other Activities (4)

School Storerooms
• Have currently supported
57 schools with materials
for building storerooms
• Secure storerooms are
important because the food
is kept safely for about 2
months
• Storerooms also enables
schools to free classrooms
for teaching/learning

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 Other Activities (5)
School gardens:
• Looking mainly at
vegetables and fruit trees
growing.
• Currently in 50 schools
• Aim is to impart
knowledge for growing
vegetables and fruits and
also for nutrition education

Community Participation

• School Feeding project is community centred

• Both women and men are involved in cooking, building

kitchens & storerooms, distribution of food and the
collection of fire wood.

• WFP ensures that woman make up 50% of the

committees formed under School feeding projects

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 Partnerships
• Unicef: Accelerated Girls education Programme;
water and sanitation; provision of learning/teaching
materials
• FAO: Technical and financial support for school
gardens
• GTZ/Probec: Fuel efficient stoves
• World Bank: School health and nutrition
• Min of Health: Deworming activities
• MASAF: For improvement of school infrastructure
(Classrooms; strorerooms; kitchens)
• TNT: Human and financial resources

School Feeding Monitoring system

• On site monitoring checklists

• Output monitoring forms – data on beneficiaries,
teachers, food commodities, NFIs
• ARGOS monitoring devices – data on
beneficiaries, teachers, food deliveries and
distributions
• Access database system developed to capture
enrolment, attendance and food distribution
• In 2005, started implementing School Feeding
PDM to get information on use, access and
satisfaction of food aid

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 Number of schools with Argos per district
DISTRICT NO. OF SCHOOLS WITH
ARGOS
Mangochi 21 (34)
Chikwawa 4 (14)
Nsanje 10 (34)
Thyolo 6 (9)
Lilongwe 17 (33)
Ntcheu 15 (22)
Dedza 23 (27)
Salima 12 (22)
Kasungu 23 (44)
Nkhatabay 7 (10)
TOTAL 138

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