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Njaa Marufuku Kenya (NMK)—School Feeding Programme
Programme
Country
Geographic area
Previous programme name (if any)
Njaa Marufuku Kenya (NMK)—School Feeding Programme
Kenya
Start date 2006 1
Sub-Saharan Africa
Programme objectives To improve the health and nutrition of school children. 1
Programme type
Programme components
Conditionalities (if any)
Targeting methods
Target areas
Conditional in-kind transfer
The programme also provides funds for smallholder farmers
to enable them meet new demands, as well as for schools to
create school gardens. 2
The meals are served at school; therefore, school
attendance is the implicit conditionality of the programme.
Categorical targeting
Areas of high poverty, school drop-out rates and malnutrition with
poor primary school performance, but with the potential to grow food. 3
Children
Target groups
Eligibility criteria Food-insecure children in pre-primary and primary schools. 2
Eligibility reassessment (if any)
Type of benefits
Food
Amount of benefits Daily hot meals 2
Payment/delivery frequency Daily 2
Benefit delivery mechanism
Meals are delivered at schools.
Benefit recipients
Students
Minimum and maximum
duration of benefits (if any)
The programme is implemented for a maximum period of three years,
after which the communities must either take over the programme’s
management or seek the support of the Home-Grown School Meals
(HGSM) programme. 2
Coverage 44,000 beneficiaries (2013) 2
Programme expenditure The programme’s budget is USD1.3 million for the first five years (2013). 2
Institutions and agencies involved Agriculture sector Ministries; Ministry of Education;
Ministry of Public Health 1
Monitoring and evaluation
mechanisms and frequency
See the references on page 174: Njaa Marufuku Kenya (NMK) School Feeding Programme
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