Primary School Feeding in Adamaoura, Nort, Extreme-North and Eastern Provinces
Project / Program Summary
I.Basic data
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Sector(s):
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Nutrition, Education
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Title:
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Primary School Feeding in Adamaoua, North, Extreme-North and Eastern Provinces.
(Project number 4387.01)
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Organization:
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WFP
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Other donors / organizations involved:
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Ministry of Education
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Beneficiary countries / regions:
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CAMEROON / Adamaoua, North, Extreme-North and Eastern Provinces
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Implementing agencies in beneficiary countries / regions:
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Ministry of Education
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Duration:
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4 years
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Starting Date:
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October 1998
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Project / Program budget:
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WFP USE 9,522,443 and Government USD 1,628,862
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Finance / Type of cooperation:
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Grant Food Aid
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II.Project / program description
- Objectives
WFP assistance to Cameroon in the education sector began in 1992 with project Cameroon 4387.00. The present expansion aims at increasing enrolment and attendance of girls in schools, and will re-target the project on the country's northern and eastern provinces. Project assistance will be provided on a priority basis to schools in the poverty-ridden areas of four provinces where enrolment rates are markedly below the national average. The project should contribute to improving and universalising basic education. It should reduce geographical and gender imbalances by helping the communities concerned to participate actively in the running of their schools; it should also help ensure that aid reaches the poorest and most under-educated population groups in the country.
- Activities / contents
The project will contribute to increase the number of children going to primary schools through the distribution of a daily meal to all pupils; and will encourage girls to attend schools in backward rural areas through take-home rations supplied to senior girls (two final years of primary schooling). The number of children eating in the canteens will increase from 47,000 in the first year of the project to 49,000 in the second and 50,000 in the third and fourth years. The number of schoolgirls receiving dry rations will increase from 15,000 in the project's first year to 16,000 in the second and 16,500 in the third and fourth years.
The indirect beneficiaries will be the families of schoolgirls, but also the village communities participating in parent's associations and management committees. The quantities of food aid for this project are 18,223 metric tons.
- Expected outcomes / impacts
The project's expected outputs will include increasing the number of children going to primary school; augmenting pupil's capacity to learn, providing them with a balanced nutritional complement; and raising enrolment and attendance rates among six to fourteen year old girls in the provinces targeted. The project will also reinforce the commitment of local communities via their direct participation in the school canteens, and in school management committees and parents' associations.
- Features in line with the Agenda for Action
The present project is in line with the agenda for action in areas of poverty alleviation, education, health and prerequisites for development. The objectives of this four-year project are in line with the government's educational strategy as defined in its 1996 Declaration of a New Education Policy.
III.Contact point:
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WFP Africa Region Bureau (OSA)
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Fax: 0039-06-6513-2839
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Mr. Mohamed Zejjari, Regional Director OSA
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Tel: 0039-06-6513-2201
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Mr. Tun Myat, Director RE
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Tel: 0039-06-6513-2009
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