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WFP Tunisia and Morocco Country Brief, March 2017

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Highlights

  • WFP, the African Development Bank and the Tunisian Ministry of Education are discussing ways to foster synergies in collaboration with the Tunisian Government in the shared efforts to build a stronger education sector and enhanced social safety nets.

  • The first food and environment classes were held in a newly established school garden developed with WFP support. The garden will serves as a hub for community participation, nutritional, environmental and agricultural education for children and adults.

Operational Updates

Tunisia

  • On March 06, WFP, the African Development Bank and the Tunisian Ministry of Education visited the site of the central kitchen school meals pilot in the Zaghouan governorate to learn about how WFP supports the Tunisian Government in enhancing the national school meals programme and discuss ways to foster synergies in collaboration to build stronger social safety nets.

  • The first food and environment class was held in a newly established school garden in Nadhour,
    Zaghouan governorate. The school garden is part of a WFP developed home-grown, multidimensional approach to school meals that is being piloted in Tunisia. It allows pupils to cultivate fruit and vegetables and serves as a hub for community participation and a site for nutritional, environmental and agricultural education for children and adults.

  • The Nadhour primary school, which is part of the WFP-developed sustainable school meals pilot, has reached out to a group of local women interested in taking care of the garden during school holidays. Promoting community participation is a key dimension of the pilot, aimed at strengthening local resilience and ownership.

  • The construction of a central kitchen that will serve nutritious meals to nine surrounding schools is well underway: this month the central kitchen’s roof was finalised. The central kitchen will use locally produced food and serve school meals based on WFP-developed nutrition guidelines.

Morocco

  • In line with Morocco’s Plan of Action for the enhancement of the National School Meals Programme, developed jointly by WFP and the Government, WFP continues to provide technical assistance aiming to strengthen regulatory frameworks and governance tools, as well as to support the design and implementation of school meals pilots that are efficient, accountable, and foster links with local agricultural production.