• Revise and update the National School Feeding Policy by 2024 and integrate school feeding into the Food Fortification Policy and the School health/nutrition Strategy by end of 2025.
• Scale up decentralized procurement from smallholder farmers and small to medium-scale food processors, targeting at least 50% of supported schools by 2027.
• Improve quality of meals by introducing menu guides. Include milk, mushrooms, fortified whole maize flour, bio-fortified beans, and enriched mixed flours. Scale up improved energy-saving stoves in 100 schools from the academic year 2024-2025.
• Finalize by the end of 2025 the school feeding impact evaluation, cost-benefit/value for money studies, assessment of nutritional status of school-age children. Mobilize stakeholders, including ministries, universities, donors, and local administration, for an informed policy review and funding to implement recommendations arising from the studies.
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