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Sao Tome and Principe

WFP Sao Tome and Principe | Brief Reporting period: 01 January – 31 March 2015

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Summary of WFP assistance:

Development project 200295 was focused on providing children with school meals and supporting the government with capacity development activities. The objective is for the government to acquire sufficient capacity to manage a national school feeding programme on its own by gradually transferring responsibility for providing a daily hot meal to schoolchildren from the WFP school feeding programme to the government.

During this gradual transfer, WFP continues to provide technical assistance to PNASE (Coordination Unit of the National School Feeding and Health Programme) and the government.

In line with the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) 2 and 3 and the Country UNDAF (United Nations Development Assistance Framework 2012-2016), WFP continued to support the government's efforts to increase the access to basic education through food and nutrition assistance as well as food security analysis tools such as the Comprehensive Food Security and Vulnerability Analysis (CFSVA) and to improve the gender balance among men and women. Additionally, WFP was working together with UNICEF to improve the hygiene and sanitation at schools and kindergartens and with the government to integrate nutrition aspects in the national nutrition policy and strategies to support people living with HIV (PLWHIV) (MDG 6).