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Image: WFP/Stephen Wong Image: WFP/Rein Skullerud WFP food aid distributions target the most vulnerable, including people living with HIV/AIDS and their households, orphans and other vulnerable children, pregnant and nursing mothers, underweight children under the age of five and the elderly In Luangua an NGO is teaching ex-poachers and ex-charcoal burners the techniques of organic agriculture which contributes to income generating as well as environmental protection sources other than ministries of education, such as funding for poverty reduction strategies, social protection, the Fast Track Initiative and the World Bank’s recently established Rapid Social Response Fund. Since early 2008, the World Bank Group and WFP have been working together to help countries develop sustainable school feeding programmes that provide social safety nets and promote education. Eight drivers of sustainability were identified through an analysis of WFP’s 45 years of school feeding and the recent joint World Bank/WFP school feeding analysis. 19 All school feeding projects are now to be conceived and designed to ensure: • Sustainability • Sound alignment with the national policy frameworks • Stable funding and budgeting • Needs-based, cost-effective quality programme design • Strong institutional arrangements for implementation, monitoring and accountability • Strategies for local production and sourcing • Strong partnerships and inter-sector coordination • Strong community participation and ownership. This concept of sustainability and government ownership of school feeding programmes also incorporates a sustainable approach to locally procure food for school feeding within the country. The Home Grown School Feeding initiative is working together with New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD)/Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP), WFP’s Purchase for Progress programme and a grant to the Partnership for Child Development from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF). Through these partnerships, this innovative initiative, which aims at providing targeted school children with locally produced food, will continue to expand. The Home Grown School Feeding approach is holistic and integrated. On the one hand, it provides incentives for education (both enrolment and retention of girls and boys) and responses to nutritional gaps and short-term hunger. On the other hand, it creates opportunities for stimulating and improving local farmers’ production, expanding local demand and increasing local market value. Home Grown School Feeding has the potential to empower communities, protect the environment, build local markets and support local farmers. An essential intervention School feeding is an intervention that addresses various elements of sustainable development. The strength of WFP in addressing educational development is its capacity to address the bidirectional relationship between education and food and nutrition security, as well as the ability of school feeding to be a platform for complementary activities. It is evident that through partnerships, sustainable school feeding produces outcomes across disciplines that are essential to building sustainable communities. [ 37 ]
How the Education for Rural People policy contributes to sustainable development Lavinia Gasperini, Senior Officer, Agricultural Education, Office of Knowledge Exchange, Research and Extension, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Nearly one out of six of the current inhabitants of the world suffers from hunger and illiteracy and the majority of those affected are in Africa. Education for Rural People (ERP) is a policy approach aimed at reducing this figure by helping the approximately one billion food-insecure people, the 776 million illiterate adults and the 75 million illiterate children within the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) framework. Education, labour, land, livestock and infrastructure are the key assets enabling rural households to escape poverty, and ERP is one of the most powerful weapons against hunger. A 2007 report from the British Department for International Development (DFID) indicates that more than USD11 billion is needed annually for education if Africa is to have any hope of getting all children into primary school by 2015. The ERP partnership flagship operates under the leadership of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations and in close collaboration with UNESCO and more than 370 partners. Satellite schools are established in remote areas for the youngest children Image: FAO ERP is one of the Partnerships for Sustainable Development of the United Nations Commission for Sustainable Development. The partnership – launched during the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) – is a worldwide call to action to foster rural people’s capability to be food secure, to manage natural resources in a sustainable way and to provide education for all rural children, youth and adults. The partnership aims at contributing to the removal of barriers that prevent poor people from using their capacity, including the urban-rural knowledge and education gap. ERP works through the identification of political, institutional, organizational and individual opportunities and constraints that poor people face in accessing education and training services at all levels of education in both formal and non-formal settings. It seeks to empower the rural poor to become fully integrated actors in the development process by promoting collaboration among the education, agriculture and rural development sectors to ensure education and skills training for all rural people. The strategy addresses research, knowledge generation and sharing, advocacy, policy and capacity development, as well as normative and field work. ERP is also one of the nine flagships of the Education for All (EFA) programme led by UNESCO. The most important products of ERP to date have been the knowledge generated and disseminated, the innovations identified, and the lessons learned by ERP partners related to policy and practice in areas such as education quality and access, gender-responsive learning environments, parent and community engagement, and accommodation of non-traditional learners, to name just a few. These knowledge products have formed the basis for national and regional capacity development meetings worldwide. Education is essential to FAO, as indicated in its Constitution, 1 to achieve the goals of raising levels of nutrition and standards of living, bettering the conditions of rural populations, and ensuring humanity’s freedom from hunger. 2 ERP employed a research-based policy approach involving both FAO and UNESCO in promoting multisectoral alliances between ministries of education and agriculture. Work took place simultaneously at the policy and field levels with an emphasis on policy work to ensure the highest impact in terms of cost-effectiveness. [ 38 ]
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