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WFP Tunisia and Morocco Country Brief, January 2018

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Highlight

• WFP Tunisia has identified eight primary schools in four different regions of the country to refurbish their existing kitchens and canteens as well as revitalise annexed school gardens. The interventions will result in enhancing the Government’s capacity to provide hot nutritious meals to 920 children in 2018.

• Three local NGOs have been selected to support WFP and the Ministry of Agriculture in facilitating the establishment of sustainable links between local agriculture production and the National School Meals Programme. The NGOs will support the revitalization of ten school gardens, which will be leveraged as hubs for community participation.

Operational Updates

Tunisia

• As a result of the field visits carried out by WFP in cooperation with the Tunisian regional commissariats of agriculture and education, eight new primary schools have been selected for the upgrade of their kitchens and canteens. The interventions will enable the selected schools to replace sandwich meals with the preparation of nutritious hot meals.

• WFP supports the Ministry of Education (MoE) in piloting new implementation modalities, by providing technical advice for the construction and equipment of Nadhour Central Kitchen, in the region of Zaghouan. WFP visited the University Central Canteen of El Mourouj and had informal consultations with national experts in order to accompany the MoE with the roll out of equipment procurement. The Nadhour Central Kitchen construction works are now 85 percent accomplished and the facilities are expected to be operational by the end of the school year.

Morocco

• WFP provided technical support to the Ministry of National Education by supporting the development of guidelines for the implementation of the National School Meals Programme. Objectives of the guidelines are (i) to modernise and standardise the NSMP operational practices in primary, secondary and boarding schools, based on international quality standards; (ii) to facilitate performance evaluation; and (iii) to improve the overall effectiveness of the NSMP. The guidelines will enable the government to introduce improvements in the areas of governance, financing, supply chain, monitoring and evaluation.