📋 Tender Overview
PROJECT ID
110599
TOTAL FUNDING
CAD 983,200.00
IDRC OFFICER
Marwan Owaygen
PROJECT STATUS
Active
DURATION
48 months
In Angola, two major school feeding programs coexist. One is public and the other is philanthropic promoted by a national company. They cover 34% and 5% of the primary school children respectively. Both programs aim at delivering locally produced food to schools using different strategies to reach out to local farmers. However, data is currently lacking on the impact of these different strategies on local farmers (especially women), local rural economies, and school meal quality, which impedes their improvement. This becomes a critical issue as Angola has recently announced that the public program would be revisited and scaled to increase school coverage and as the private model has been renewed for three years.
Implemented by Development Workshop Angola, this project aims at developing, piloting, and scaling innovations that foster equality and inclusion and increase the share of local, sustainably produced food procured by the two school feeding programs, with an emphasis on the public program.? Using mixed methods and a value-chain analysis approach, the project will first surface the strengths and weaknesses of the two programs and identify critical entry points to improve their catalysing effects on local food systems. In parallel, the project will analyse some initiatives undertaken to support family farmers and identify how they could be better harnessed to the school feeding programs. The pilots will take place in 12 schools located in three different regions of Angola showing contrasted agroecological and socio-economic contexts. Innovations will be tested in two different settings (rural and peri-urban).
Ultimately, this research will significantly contribute to developing an efficient, inclusive, and scalable model for integrating local agricultural production into Angola’s school feeding programs. This will demonstrate how these programs can simultaneously improve child nutrition, support local farmers (especially women), and strengthen sustainable food systems.
This project is part of the Catalysing Resilient, Inclusive, and Sustainable Procurement for School Food initiative (CRISP), led by IDRC. It seeks to catalyse the equitable and inclusive adoption and scaling of sustainable practices throughout the school meal procurement system, which could ultimately result in broader positive improvements in local or national food systems, including agroecological practices.
