The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in partnership with the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) Fragility, Conflict and Migration (FCM) initiative organized a policy seminar titled “Towards Advancing Children’s Nutritional Intake: Taking Stock of Evidence-based Effective School Feeding Programs in the Middle East and North Africa”. The seminar presented findings from a recent randomized controlled trial, funded by partners from the private sector including HSA Group, and Tetra Pak, on the effectiveness of school feeding programs (SFPs) in emergency and humanitarian contexts.
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Policy Seminar: Evaluation of School Feeding Programs in Egypt
Rana Sallam - World Food Programme (WFP)
As part of their longstanding collaboration on building evidence base on food security, nutrition, social protection and education, WFP and IFPRI co-hosted a seminar with the objective of sharing knowledge, lessons learned and good practices on the use of evaluation as a tool for policy formulation and capacity strengthening by MENA governments. Panelists from WFP and IFPRI researchers were joined by a representative from “Save the Children” and government officials from the Government of Egypt (i.e. Ministry of Social Solidarity and Ministry of Education) to discuss how evaluation is playing a major factor in improving the quality of implementation and programmatic performance in Egypt and to reflect on how this model could be a blue-print for the broader MENA region.
