Description
CARE and partners support school feeding programs to give vulnerable girls and boys from impoverished communities the opportunity to learn and grow to their fullest potential, increasing equality and empowerment, especially for girls. Cost-effective approaches to school feeding support both education and health. CARE's framework focuses on four primary areas: 1) Increasing the capacity of government agencies, school administrators, and community-based organizations to better manage, fund, and monitor school feeding; 2) Improving tools, techniques, and learning environments to increase literacy skills; 3) Overcoming social norms to increase gender equality and ensure equal learning opportunities for girls; and 4) Increasing food production, income generating activities, and the practice of optimal nutrition, health and WASH behaviors, both at home and at school. Wherever possible, school feeding programs procure nutritious foods from local sources-especially women small-scale producers -in order to support local economies and strengthen women's economic empowerment. CARE and partners also ensure sustainable change by influencing governments to enact legislation and policies that guarantee future funding for school feeding programs, or incorporate proven models into national programs.
Overarching commitment (for commitments submitted pre-2025)
Title
Strengthening Social Protection
Description
Strengthening social protection and building efficient, inclusive local structures and systems, assisting vulnerable households to find sustainable pathways toward food, water and nutrition security, including in times of crisis or in contexts of chronic poverty where additional support is required. Interventions in this space will include in-kind food transfers, school feeding, vouchers, unconditional and conditional cash transfers, seed and input vouchers, and strengthening shock responsive safety nets, and building citizen and provider accountability mechanisms and relationships. The aim is to use such support to stimulate markets, promote good practice, and create improvements in sustainable community capacities, motivation, resources, and where feasible, linkages to market or governance systems, enabling households to graduate from safety net schemes as livelihoods are transformed. We will build on successes in influencing governments to develop, reform and implement policies and strategies that ensure social protection as a human right and as an instrument to reduce food, nutrition, and water insecurity.
GNR assessment
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Unverified
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| SMARTness index |
Low
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Details
| Nutrition Action Classification(s) |
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Food environment
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Measurement
| Key indicator | Percent of children that can access school feeding programs |
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| Baseline | TBD | 2021 |
| Target | TBD |
