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US$ 44,438 six-month (September 2024 – February 2025) net funding requirements
Operational Updates
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In August, a delegation led by the Minister of Education, Culture and Sciences, Isabel Maria Abreu, accompanied by the PNASE Coordinator, Emanuel Montoia and the WFP Office Manager, Leon Victor Mushumba, travelled to Brazil to learn more about Brazilian school feeding programme. On the first day of the mission, the delegation visited World Food Program's (WFP) Centre of Excellence against Hunger’s office in Brasilia, Brazil's capital, of, and held exchange presentations on how school feeding works in São Tomé and Príncipe and in Brazil, as well as some of the country's data. The National Education Development Fund (FNDE) also presented data on how the Brazilian National School Feeding Program (PNAE) works.
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During the following days, the delegation made field visits to the agro-ecological rural property of the Association of Family Farmers, and visited the EC Aguilhada rural school in São Sebastião, to see the school meals and children's lunches in situ. In addition, the delegation met the representatives of the Ministry of Education, the Brazilian Agency of Cooperation, the National Institute for Educational Studies, and Research (INEP), and the Institute of Brazilia. Discussions focused on various of areas of bilateral cooperation. Representative of Brazil committed to also send a delegation to the High CPLP School Meals Conference planned in December 2024.
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In August, a WFP team, along with the NGO ADDAPA, visited the farmers of the Sampaio water community to monitor the progress of the harvest of the local produce harvest. This produce will supply the school feeding programme. This visit is part of the Brazilian government's contribution to the provision of school meals based on locally produced organic food to 6,700 schoolchildren in the districts of Lembá, Cantagalo and Lobata.
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In August, WFP organised a mission to Príncipe Island, accompanied by the UK Ambassador. The purpose of this mission was to discuss governance priorities and challenges, visiting ongoing WFP-support initiatives, and explore potential areas for fostering partnerships within the cooperation framework between São Tomé and Príncipe and the UK. This visit follows the donor meeting held in Luanda earlier this year, attended by the Deputy Director and Representative for São Tomé and Príncipe and Cameroon, along with the Head of Office. The purpose of the meeting was to explain WFP's presence and activities in São Tomé and Príncipe, highlight past achievements and outline the future as articulated in the new Country Strategic Plan 2024 - 2028.