The World Food Program has expressed its full support to the Moroccan national school meals Program, vital component of the Vision 2030 education reform and the National Nutrition Strategy 2011-2019. In 2013, the Moroccan government requested WFP’s support to review the national school meals Program, which provides meals for 658,000 girls and 742,000 boys in primary, secondary and boarding schools, of which 70 percent are located in rural areas. WFP designed a Development Project that was implemented in three phases: an assessment of the existing school meals program, the development of a Plan of Action for the improvement of national school meals; and study visits and sharing of best practices. WFP Plan of Action for the improvement of the Moroccan national school meals program was endorsed by Rabat in July 2016, and its implementation constitutes the core of WFP’s operations for the 12 months TICSP starting January 2018. WFP provides technical and policy advice for the implementation of the Plan of Action.

Source: The North Africa Journal February 02, 2018 11:26 UTC