World Food Programme, WFP

Policies & Strategies
Policies & Strategies | 2024

School Meals Policy

The WFP’s School Meals Policy updates the 2013 version, highlighting the transformative potential of national school meal programmes in addressing critical global challenges. This includes helping children be healthier and learn better, fostering sustainable development and food system reform.

Case Studies & Research
Case Studies & Research | 2023

School meal models

School feeding is essential for promoting education, health, peace and social cohesion. At a time when countries and their partners are evaluating strategies to reduce chronic malnutrition, malnutrition and poverty, the discussion of school feeding models becomes imperative.

Programme Reports & Evaluations
Programme Reports & Evaluations | 2024

PNAE monitoring and civil society oversight

Brazil has one of the largest national school feeding programmes in the world, serving cooked meals daily to around 40 million students across the country.

Programme Reports & Evaluations
Programme Reports & Evaluations | 2024

Summary of evidence: home-grown school feeding

This summary brings together evidence from 49 WFP-commissioned independent evaluations, which cover the period 2018-2023 and were rated ‘satisfactory’ or above by WFP’s external post hoc quality assessment (PHQA).

Programme Reports & Evaluations
Programme Reports & Evaluations | 2024

Summary of evaluation evidence: School feeding in Cambodia

This summary brings together evidence from 10 evaluations. The evaluations comprised a large volume of both quantitative and qualitative evidence on school feeding in Cambodia and were completed from 2018-2023. The synthesis was conducted from January-March 2024.