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School feeding: An overview and recent trends. Aulo Gelli, IFPRI.

School feeding: An overview and recent trends. Aulo Gelli, IFPRI. Save the Children Webinar,15 th of July 2014, Washington DC. Agenda. Rethinking school feeding? Current status and recent trends What is school feeding? Simple idea but in practice quite complex Home-Grown School Feeding?

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School feeding: An overview and recent trends. Aulo Gelli, IFPRI.

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  1. School feeding: An overview and recent trends. Aulo Gelli, IFPRI. Save the Children Webinar,15thof July 2014, Washington DC.

  2. Agenda • Rethinking school feeding? • Current status and recent trends • What is school feeding? • Simple idea but in practice quite complex • Home-Grown School Feeding? • Potential impact pathways • Education • Health and nutrition • Agriculture • Examples of trade-offs • Country examples: Ghana, Kenya, Mali

  3. Quality of evidence of impact of health and food on education + = evidence from quasi-experimental evaluation ++ = evidence from at least one RCT +++ = evidence from more than one RCT NA = not assessed (Source: Bundy et al., 2009)

  4. Quality of evidence of impact of food on nutrition and health (Source: Watkins et al., 2013) + = evidence from quasi-experimental evaluation ++ = evidence from at least one RCT +++ = evidence from more than one RCT NA = not assessed

  5. Planning for sustainability Ratio of per child cost of school feeding in relation to per child cost of basic education, versus GDP per capita. • Sharp decrease in relative costs of school feeding as GDP rises. • Supporting countries through transition is a key role for development agencies. (Source: Bundy et al., 2009)

  6. School feeding transition (Source: Bundy et al., 2009)

  7. What is school feeding? • School feeding can be defined as the provision of food to children through schools • Two basic modalities: • On-site meals or snacks • Take-home rations conditional to attendance • In some contexts interventions combine on-site programmes with take-home rations targeting a specific group of vulnerable children

  8. (Source: WFP)

  9. Simple idea…but… • School feeding programmes can be very complex! • No one size fits all, very context specific • (See examples in the next slides…) • Opportunity to assist governments in improving scale-up of national programmes • What works where? • How much does it cost?

  10. Linking agriculture, education, health and nutrition • In 2003 African governments included nationally sourced school feeding in Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) • Concept: harness structured demand from school food provision • Win-win for farmers and school children • NEPAD launched Home-Grown School Feeding programme, with 12 countries invited to implement pilots: • Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, Mali and Nigeria are already implementing programs.

  11. What is HGSF? • Emphasis has been on nationalownership • Home-Grown not limited to “local” • HGSF can have 3 target groups: • school children • small scale farmers (food production) • community stakeholders (food preparation) • Cross-cutting gender dimension • HGSF policy objectives include: • For children: improved access to education, cognition and learning (plus health and nutrition) • For farmers and community stakeholders: improved food security, including food availability, access and utilisation (see FAO framework)

  12. What is the evidence? • Evidence underpinning SF and benefits to school children is fairly well established • Gap in terms of agriculture component • Are explicit interventions (other than cash for food) required to support impact on agriculture? • E.g. Sensitisation campaigns around improved production practices, income generation activities and on improved household nutrition practices • What is the impact on smallholder farmer households?

  13. Complex impact pathways School feeding Education Nutrition & health Agriculture

  14. Education pathways

  15. Nutrition pathways

  16. Agriculture pathways

  17. Some trade-offs : Back of the envelope figures relative to cooked meals

  18. In Mali… Source: WFP.

  19. Whilst in Kenya… Sources: USAID, (2010); MEASURE DHS, (2009).

  20. Ghana: Decentralised third party model

  21. Impact evaluations in Mali and Ghana • Current models can be improved to allow for small holder farmer participation • Develop innovative pilot integrating explicit agriculture and nutrition components (HGSF+) • Strengthen M&E and information flow between different actors • Proposed approach • Pilot innovative model (HGSF+) within existing national programme framework • Evaluate pilot (alongside standard SF model) within on-going M&E system strengthening activities

  22. Main study outcomes

  23. Some reflections… • Multisectoral intervention • Working across traditional disciplines… • Data collection timings and seasonality • e.g. agriculture, schooling, health… • Evaluation around scale-up of national programme • Buy-in from policymakers… • Changing political context • Coup d'état + invasion in Mali, elections in Ghana…

  24. Thank you! • Slides build on: • Masset E and Gelli A. Community participation and the links between agriculture, nutrition and education: design of a randomised field experiment of “home-grown” school feeding in Mali. Trials, 2013. • Gelli A, Kretschmer A, Molinas L. & Regnault de la Mothe M. A comparison of supply chains for school food: exploring operational trade-offs across implementation models. HGSF Working Paper Series . London, PCD, 2012. http://hgsf-global.org/ www.a4nh.cgiar.org

  25. School feeding cost and outcomes Source: Galloway R, Kristjansson E, Gelli A, Meir U, Espejo F, and Bundy, D. 2009.

  26. Costs and cost-efficiency estimates • Take home rations, targeted to households, cost US$ 75 per child per year • Share of food costs: school meals (56%), biscuits (74%), take-home rations (68%)

  27. Randomised field experiments • Impact evaluation of national programmes • 116 schools, randomised • 29 SF standard • 29 HGSF+ pilot • 58 no school feeding (control group- get SF after year 2) • Integrate evaluations within monitoring of the national programme • Government regular monitoring (monthly/quarterly) • 2 year studies • Mali baseline completed January 2012 • Ghana baseline underway June 2013

  28. 58 districts (116 schools) 1st stage randomisation 29 HGSF+ districts (58 schools) 29 GSFP districts (58 schools) 2nd stage randomisation 29 HGSF+ schools (725 HH) 29 control schools (580 HH) 29 control schools (580 HH) 29 GSFP schools (725 HH) 3rd stage randomisation (Ghana only) 14 HGSF++ schools (225 HH) 15 HGSF+ schools (225 HH) 15 control schools (225 HH) 15 GSFP schools (225 HH)

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