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School Feeding
Programs:
Improving effectiveness and increasing the benefit to education.
A Guide for Program Managers
The Partnership for Child Development
Joy Miller Del Rosso, Consultant
June 1999

The Partnership for Child Development (PCD) was established in 1992 to help co-ordinate global efforts to assess the developmental burden of ill health and poor nutrition at school age. It brings together a consortium of countries, donor organisations and centres of academic excellence to design and test strategies to improve the health and education of school-age children.
The Partnership has international agency support from UNDP, WHO, UNICEF, The World Bank and British DFID, and is sustained through support from participating governments, the Rockefeller, Edna McConnell Clark and James S McDonnell Foundations and the Wellcome Trust.
The Scientific Coordinating Centre for the Partnership is based at:
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the Epidemiology of Infectious Disease, University of Oxford,
South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3FY , UK.
Tel: [phone] Fax: [phone]
Email: [e-mail] Web: http://www.ceid.ox.ac.uk/child/

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Contents
HOW TO USE THIS GUIDE .......................................................................................... 3
EDUCATION AND LEARNING DEPEND ON GOOD NUTRITION AND HEALTH ............... 5
HOW SCHOOL FEEDING PROGRAMS CAN IMPROVE EDUCATIONAL QUALITY AND EFFICIENCY
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SEVEN STEPS IN DEVELOPING SCHOOL FEEDING PROGRAMS THAT IMPROVE EDUCATION
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STEP ONE: DEFINE THE SCHOOL FEEDING PROGRAM POLICY AND OBJECTIVES11
STEP TWO: TARGETING AND COVERAGE

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