Project profile — School Feeding and Local Purchases in Haiti

• Haiti (100.00%)

• Primary education:
Primary education (11220) (18.00%)
School feeding (11250) (76.00%)
• Basic Health: Basic nutrition (12240) (6.00%)

• Gender equality (significant objective)
• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (significant objective)
• Participatory development and good governance (not targeted)
• Trade development (not targeted)
• Biodiversity (not targeted)
• Climate change mitigation (not targeted)
• Climate Change Adaptation (not targeted)
• Urban issues (not targeted)
• Desertification (not targeted)
• Children's issues (principal objective)
• Youth Issues (significant objective)
• Disaster Risk Reduction(DRR) (not targeted)
• Indigenous Issues (not targeted)
• Disability (not targeted)
• Nutrition (significant objective)
• ICT as a tool for development (not targeted)

This project aims to reduce hunger and malnutrition towards children and to increase the enrolment rate, especially girl, in Haiti. It also aims to stimulate the local economy in a sustainable way by purchasing local food from women producers and entrepreneurs, allowing them to seize more opportunities to contribute to their own economic success and their communities. Project activities include: (1) offering daily nutritious meals to 180 000 school-aged children to increase their attendance and their academic achievement; and (2) offering economic opportunities for women in rural areas through local purchasing.

The expected outcomes of this project include: (1) reduced chronic hunger for school-aged children; (2) increased primary school attendance and academic achievement rates (particularly for girls); (3) stimulated economic growth of communities, especially of women.

Results achieved at the end of the project (December 2023) include: (1) reduced malnutrition and chronic hunger among school children. Provided nutritious meals in line with nutritional standards and respectful of local diets every school day for the duration of the project to 196,022 children (including 96,476 girls); (2) improved the attendance and academic success of recipient children. The schools that were supported by the project, the average success rate was 59% (61% for girls and 58% for boys), while the average attendance rate was 77% (76% for girls and 77% for boys); and (3) improved the economic opportunities of rural communities by sourcing local food from local agricultural organizations.

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