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Support to Primary Education: Project Mag-3936.00
Project / Programme Summary

I. Basic data

Sector(s): Development
Title: Project Mag-3936.00: "Support to primary education"
Donor Country / organization: World Food Programme (WFP)
Other donors / organizations involved: The World Bank
Beneficiary countries / regions: Madagascar (Tulear and Mahajanga)
Implementing agencies in beneficiary countries / regions: Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education
Duration: 5 years
Starting Date: October 1991
Project / Program budget: US$4.8 million
Finance / Type of cooperation: Grant - Food Aid

II. Project / programme description

  1. Objectives
    Assist the Government in encouraging enrolment at the primary education level in two of the poorest and most food-insecure provinces of the country (Tulear and Mahajanga)
  2. Activities / contents
    • Provide foods to 30,000 school children
    • Ensure the availability of additional food which, will encourage pupils' enrolment and attendance.
    • Provide a midday meal to the teaching staff to encourage their participation in the smooth operation of the canteen (serving the meal, composition of menus).
    • Encourage volunteer work to form a household budget saving for the parents.
    • Encourage parents' work on construction of refectories, kitchen and food storerooms, by receiving family rations for 60 days during the lean period of the year.
  3. Expected outcomes / impacts
    • Ensuring the operation of school canteens in specific areas of the two provinces.
    • Supplying a pre-school snack of instant corn-soya-milk (ICSM)/sugar to the pupils of the assisted schools.
    • Giving one cooked meal a day to the children and teachers.
    • Improving the schools' infrastructure by building refectories, kitchen with improved ovens, and new school buildings; as well as, repair of these buildings and by making school gardens for educational purpose.
    • Training the teachers of the WFP-assisted schools in nutrition and in agricultural practices.
  4. Features in line with the Agenda for Action
    This project is in line with the agenda for action as it covers Education.

III. Contact point:

WFP Africa Region Bureau (OSA) Fax.: 0039-6-6513-2839
Mr. Mohamed Zejjari, Regional Director OSA Tel.: 0039-6-6513-2201
Mr. Tun Myat, Director RE Tel.: 0039-6-6513-2009

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