African Union Biennial Report on Home-Grown School Feeding

This 2019-2020 Biennial Report builds on data and inputs collected by the African Union and its partners gathered in the HGSF Cluster, including WFP, UNICEF and FAO. This report also builds on the school feeding database developed by WFP for its flagship State of School Feeding Worldwide 2020 report, which contains up-to-date and official data on school feeding programmes at the country level.

This report aims to fulfil multiple objectives. It reports on the state of school feeding in the African continent and provides a mechanism for accountability to the African Union. Informed by several case studies from across the continent, it also highlights best practices to help inform policies and programmes. Finally, it identifies priorities and essential actions to advance school feeding and CESA objectives.

This report is broken down in five chapters as follows:

Chapter 1: School Feeding Programmes in 2019-2020: Scale, Coverage and Trends provides an update on school feeding indicators in 2019-2020 and presents the scale of school feeding efforts, coverage rates, funding and policy trends, with analytics by region and by income level.

Chapter 2: Scaling-up Home-Grown School Feeding in Africa is an overview of key policy and institutional evolutions that have taken place in the African Union as countries increasingly mainstream Home-Grown School Feeding programmes and translate continental priorities into national agendas

Chapter 3: Providing an Integrated School Health and Nutrition Package reflects on the importance of complementary, school-based health and nutrition interventions to build human capital and accelerate economic growth

Chapter 4: The impact and response to the COVID-19 Pandemic highlights the consequences of the COVID-19 crisis and efforts undertaken by governments to mitigate its dramatic impact on education, health, nutrition and poverty

Chapter 5: Partnerships and Governance in School Feeding takes stock of key partnerships, coalitions and networks at the continental, regional and national levels working to help governments deliver school feeding in Africa.

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