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Assistance to Primary School Students : SUD 531.03
Project / Program Summary

I.Basic data

Sector(s): Education
Title: SUD 531.03 "Assistance to primary school students"
Donor country/ organization: World Food Programme (WFP)
Other donors / organizations involved: UNICEF, UNDP
Beneficiary countries / regions: Sudan food-deficit areas of Red Sea, North and West Kordofan and West Darfur
Implementing agencies in beneficiary countries / regions: Ministry of Education, State education authorities
Duration: 3 years
Starting Date: August 1997
Project / Program budget: Total cost to WFP USD 18,600,259; total cost of Government USD 21,291,464
Finance / Type of cooperation: Grant - food aid

II.Project / program description

  1. Objectives
    • Contribute to increasing and stabilizing primary school attendance, especially of girls;
    • Improve children's capacity to concentrate and assimilate information by relieving short-term hunger;
    • Contribute to the reduction of gender disparities by improving the teaching facilities in girls' schools.
  2. Activities / contents
    In areas of greatest food insecurity, an annual average of 230,000 daily rations will be served to primary school students, phasing in at 150,000 the first year and increasing to 300,000 in the third year.
  3. Expected outcomes / impacts
    • Average daily attendance rates at assisted schools will increase by five percent per year;
    • an annual average of 230,000 daily rations will be served to primary students, phasing in at 150,000 the first year and increasing to 300,000 in the third year of the operation -- subject to availability of commodities to WFP;
    • the ration of girls to boys in primary schools will improve from the current 30:70 to at least 40:60, with a 50:50 target to be reached in a possible future phase. Additional cash assistance for the rehabilitation or construction of an average of two classrooms per school and improved water facilities in 650 girls' schools will contribute to this goal.
  4. Features in line with the Agenda for Action The project is in line with the Agenda for Action as it covers one of its topics, i.e. 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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