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2013 State of School Feeding Worldwide 2013

A meal in school is a powerful tool. For the first time, we present the global picture and data from research that shows an estimated 368 million children receive a meal at school every day, both in developing countries and in affluent countries. The global investment is in the order of US$75 billion a year. WFP/Micah Albert/Yemen

The book does not focus on the UN World Food Since the financial crisis in 2008, interest in school Programme’s operations. Done in partnership feeding has grown among both high- and low- with the World Bank and the Partnership income countries, highlighting the need to improve for Child Development, the State of School our knowledge and our evidence base. Feeding Worldwide 2013 presents our current understanding of school feeding through a global survey, maps, case studies and analysis. It follows The book addresses the following questions: up from the landmark 2009 publication Rethinking School Feeding, to provide new insights into How can countries improve the effectiveness and the policy and management of school feeding efficiency of the programmes they are already programmes globally. implementing?

How do school meals contribute to social protection, education and health goals?

How do governments support the link between local agricultural production and school meals to make programmes sustainable?

How can school feeding programmes better support the most vulnerable families and children in any society? WFP/Tom Greenwood/Laos WFP/Tom Some key findings of the State of School if teachers, textbooks, curriculum and an Feeding Worldwide 2013: environment conducive to learning are also in place. • The coverage and quality of school feeding programmes vary with national income. In low- • Addressing the nutrition needs of school-aged income countries, where the need is greatest children can help ensure that the development in terms of hunger and poverty, the coverage is gains in the crucial first 1,000 days of life are the lowest (see graphs on back page). not jeopardized by later failures.

• The greatest opportunities for containing costs • Linking programmes to the agriculture sector are in low-income countries – in some countries has direct economic benefits and provides an school feeding per child costs more than opportunity to engage with the private sector at education itself and there is opportunity for all stages of the supply chain. efficiency savings. • Development partners should improve • School feeding works as part of social protection coordination to ensure that children in low- systems to support the most vulnerable families income countries have access to programmes and children and can be scaled up in response that are common almost everywhere else. to crises. At least 38 countries surveyed have scaled up their programmes in response to The publication is a work in progress that seeks armed conflict, natural disasters, and food and to share the knowledge about a vital tool for financial crises. nourishing the bodies and minds of future generations. • School feeding contributes to having healthy and well-educated children, but can only help To download the full PDF of the book, visit: wfp.org/school-meals

368 million children receive school meals

with up to US$75 billion Europe & Central Asia invested each year 27 million

Middle East & North Africa North America 13 million State of Palestine 45 million East Asia & Pacific Libya 47 million

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*** South Sudan Brunei Darussalam

South Asia Sub-Saharan 121 million Africa Latin America 30 million & Caribbean 85 million

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Source: WFP global school feeding > 5 million Estimated figures survey, case studies, publications and other sources. N=169 countries. (U.K.) 1 - 5 million No school meals programme

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The designations employed in this map, do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the World Food Programme concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers and boundaries. In the following specific cases: * the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir agreed on by India and Pakistan is represented approximately by a dotted line as the final status has not yet been agreed on by the parties; ** a dispute exists between the governments of Argentina and the United Kingdom concerning sovereignty over the Falkland Islands (Malvinas); *** the final boundary between the Republic of Sudan and the Republic of South Sudan has not yet been determined.

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