National comprehensive school feeding policy

To ensure children develop their full potential and become productive citizens, the Government of Rwanda has developed a comprehensive School Feeding Policy and Strategic plan, with recommended policy actions in 6 key areas: (1) scaling up the coverage of school feeding programmes; (2) ensuring health and nutrition sensitive school feeding programming; (3) promoting school gardening and farming; (4) securing sustainable financing for school feeding programmes; (5) creating appropriate policies and frameworks linking market access to farm produce by local farmers to the school feeding programme; and (6) partnerships, multi sectoral coordination, collaboration and shared responsibility in the management of school feeding programmes.