McGovern-Dole Food for
Education Program
in Guinea-Bissau
Objectives 2005-2014
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Increase school enrolment and attendance through school meals
Contribute to literacy improvement: distribution of textbooks and school suplies, meetings
with MoE, UNICEF officials to discuss curriculum development and improvement
Increase the number of teachers graduating annually from the MoE teacher training center in
Bolama by rehabilitating and expanding the training facilities at this center
Improve school infrastructure by repairing school buildings, constructing school kitchens,
building latrines and water facilities, and providing desks and benches
Increase promotion rates in primary schools
Decrease drop out rates in primary schools
Provide school kits to girls unable to attend school due to financial difficulties
Improve the health, nutrition, and attention span of primary and pre-primary school children
by providing a daily nutritious meal and also instruction on good nutrition and health
Improve the availability of local food for school lunches through developing school gardens
Develop and improve local capacity through the creation and strengthening of PTAs and
community support groups
Support local market development through the purchase of local food and condiments
Develop strategies with stakeholders for transition (graduation) of the program
Food for Education Agreements
Agreement #
Fiscal year
FFE-657-2005/146-00
2005 (food commodities arrived 2006)
FFE-657-2006/115-00
2006 (food commodities arrived 2007)
2007 (food commodities arrived in 2008)
FFE-657-2009/024
2009
2010
FFE-657-2011/023-00
2011
2012
TOTAL – 4 agreements
Overview 2005-2014
• Food tonage received 2005/2014 = 28,460
MT
• IPHD Funds Admin. = $1,907,044
• IPHD Funds ITSH = $2,124,262
• IPHD Funds Projects = $8,137,224
• Commodity & Freight Costs = $35,149,097
• Total Cost = $47,317,627
• Total meals served = 119,196,000
Components
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School lunch program
Increase school attendance for girls
Improvement of school infrastructure
Repair and improvement of school kitchens
Malaria prevention program and nutrition education
and health interventions
Development of school gardens
Development of PTAs and community associations
Rehabilitation of MoE teacher training center Bolama
Purchase of local food and condiments
Micronutrient agreements
• FFE 035/2011
• Amount received = 30.8MT
• Total costs = $1,467,000
• Beneficiaries = 12,100
• The total in the study was 5,000 beneficiaries
• FFE 043/2012
• Amount received = 16.4MT
• Total costs = $1,100,000
• Beneficiaries = 3,259
USDA McGovern Dole programs
in Guinea-Bissau
Program Stakeholders
 Governmental institutions
• Guinea-Bissau Ministry of Education
• Guinea-Bissau Ministry of Health
 International organizations
• UNICEF
• World Food Program: coordination
• PLAN International
 Local non-governmental organizations
• Associação dos Amigos da Criança (AMIC)
• Parents-Teachers Associations (PTAs) and community
associations
Associação dos Amigos da Criança
• AMIC – IPHD partner since 2002
 3,000 members
 1,500 of them = school teachers
 some members of the government including the
Minister of Education are members of AMIC
 the only local NGO that receives subsidies from
the government
 provide monitoring and local community services
to improve school lunch program
School lunch program
School lunch
program
 From 38,000 children in
2006 to over 145,000 in
2014
 From 7,524,000 school
meals in 2006 to 41,679,000
school meals 2014
“The children eat good food and
drink cabaceira juice, so they are
always very satisfied. Now most of
the children attend school.
Heretofore, many of them used to
drop out school, but thanks to the
School Lunch program, this
tendency is disappearing.”
Cadidjato Djalo, teacher and
member of a Parents Teachers
Association, Escola de Nhacra
School lunch program
Impact on enrollment
School year
2006/2007
2007/2008
2008/2009
2009/2010
2010/2011
2011/2012
2012/2013
2013/2014
175 schools
278 schools
392 schools
392 schools
507schools
542 schools
643 schools
688 schools
Baseline
38,000
58,000
85,000
85,000
105,250
105,250
105,250
105,250
Total
44,056
69,730
91,150*
92,106
111,097
115,664
142,230
145,944
Boys
24.866
(56.4%)
37,860
(54.3%)
50,329
(55%)
51,719
(56.1%)
59,669
(53.7%)
56,894
(53.2%)
73,901
(52%)
75,759
(51.9%)
Girls
19,190
(43.6%)
31,870
(45.7%)
40,821
(45%)
40,387
(43.9%)
51,428
(46.3%)
49,973
(46.8%)
68,329
(48%)
70,185
(48.1%)
* No food distribution from March 2009 to September 2010
School lunch program
Impact on attendance
School year
2006/2007
2007/2008
2008/2009
2009/2010
2010/2011
2011/2012
2012/2013
2013/2014
42,308
66,428
90,739
85,796
106,132
106,867
134.597
138,072
96%
95.3%
99.5%
93.1%
96.5%
92.4%
94.6%
94.6%
Boys
24,194
(57.2%)
34,340
(51.7%)
50,165
(55.3%)
49,157
(57.3%)
57,206
(53.9%)
56,894
(53.2%)
70,096
(52.1%)
72,487
(52.5%)
Girls
18,114
(42.8%)
32,088
(48.3%)
40,574
(44.7%)
36,639
(42.7%)
48,926
(46.1%)
49,973
(46.8%)
64,501
(47.9%)
65,585
(47.5%)
Total
Average attendance rate in SLP IPHD schools:
95.25%
National attendance rates could not be
verified at the beginning of the program
since they were not reliable but the MoE
shows that rate at 50 to 60%
School lunch program
Impact on drop outs
School year
2006/2007
2007/2008
2008/2009
2009/2010
2010/2011
2011/2012
2012/2013
2013/2014
Total
1,748
(4.0%)
3302
(4.7%)
1721
(1.9%)
6,610
(7.1%)
4,965
(4.50%)
8797
(7.6%)
9,931
(6.9%)
7,907
(5.4%)
Boys
672
(38.4%)
1697
(51.4%)
938
(54.5%)
2,662
(40.3%)
2,202
(54.4%)
4603
(52.3%)
4,946
(49.1%)
3,373
(42.6%)
Girls
1,076
(61.6%)
1605
(48.6%)
783
(45.5%)
3,948
(59.7%)
2,763
(55.6%)
4194
(47.3%)
4,985
(50.9%)
4,354
(47.4%)
The national level drop out rate is over 25% (according to the MoE, 2014)
School lunch program
Impact on promotion
School year
Region
2006/2007
2007/2008
2008/2009
2009/2010
2010/2011
2011/2012
2012/2013
2013/2014
Bissau
65.5
81
81
83.9
82.6
91.1
95
95.2%
Biombo
62.4
84.3
84.3
91.1
84.8
89.9
91.2
94.9%
Cacheu
65
93.7
93.7
94.8
87.8
93.9
94.2
96.6%
Oio
65.8
90.3
90.3
90.2
90.2
91.3
91.5
93.1%
Quinara
Bolama
Bijagos
69.1
77.2
77.2
85.5
81.3
80.2
86.8
90.4%
73.4
83.6
83.6
85.1
81.4
87.5
87.5
92.2%
Tombali
76.7
82.5
82.5
73.1
79.2
85.6
85.2
93.8%
Average
68.3
84.7
84.7
86.2
83.9
88.5
90.2
93%
According to MoE children entering the first grade in primary school and eventually reaching
grade 5 was only above 44 percent prior to this program
Malaria prevention, nutrition
education, and other
health interventions
Malaria prevention
program and health
interventions
 Mosquito nets
distributed 2005-2014
= 112,823
 Medicine distributed
from 2005 to 2014:
 mebendazol =
1,530,194 pills
 multivitamins =
4,442,000 pills
 iron sulphate =
4,490,448 pils
Malaria prevention
program and health
interventions
T-shirts distributed = 18,000
Manuals distributed = 1,015
Posters distributed = 3,700
Leaflets = 2,700
Training sessions
125 sessions = 2,655 teachers
trained
 111 sessions = 953 children
trained
17 sessions = 663 community
members trained
136 malaria and other diseases
prevention committees established
 a Manual on Malaria prevention
 a Nutrition Education Manual to
provide specific information on the
importance of the nutritional issues
Malaria prevention
program and health
interventions
Animation and awareness
raising sessions
 In schools = 9,340 sessions
Participants: 596,000
children, over 3,000 teachers,
over 14,000 family members
 In communities = 1,138
sessions
Participants = over 29,000
adults
Increased school attendance by girls
Increased school attendance by girls
Selection criteria
 Girls from the regions of Oio
and Cacheu
 Girls from poor families and
those who have to walk long
distances to reach school
 Girls from 2-6 grades
 Girls who dropped out of
school
 Girls situated in areas with a
low female enrollment
Objective: at least 80% of
girls enrolled graduated
Increased school attendance by girls
Objective: at least 80% of girls enrolled graduated
School
year
No of girls/
no of schools
Drop
out
Graduation
Fail
2010/2011
1,450 in 36 schools
47
(3.2%)
1,346
(96%)
57
(4.0%)
2011/2012
1,450 in 36 schools
8
(0.5%)
1,399
43
(3.0%)
(97%)
2012/2013
2,900 in 40 schools
23
(0.7%)
2,808
(97.6%)
69
(2.4%)
2013/2014
1,455 in 40 schools
(new girls)
34
(2.3%)
1,400
(98.5%)
21
(1.5%)
2,404 in 45 schools
(continuing girls)
27
(1.1%)
2,344
(98.6%)
33
(1.4%)
Improvement of school infrastructure
• Classrooms repaired
• Classrooms rehabilitated
• Classrooms equipment
- School desks
- Blackboards
- Teacher desks
• Wells
Improvement of school infrastructure
Former school in Joao Landim,
Cacheu Region
Kindergarten in Bijagos Islands
Classrooms
 Classrooms repaired –
from 71 in 2008/2009 to 130
in 2011/2011 to 348 in
2013/2014 – over 12,500
children benefitted
Classrooms rehabilitated
– from 55 in 2008/2009 to
180 in 2011/2012 to 267 in
2014 – over 9,600 children
benefitted
 Latrines built & repaired
– 41
School infrastructure
School under construction,
Tombali region
Kindergarten under reparation,
Oio region
Classrooms
furnished
From 2011 to 2014 - 61
classrooms furnished:
 School desks = 1,118
 Blackboards = 50
 Teacher desks = 36
Teacher chairs = 36
For the school year 2014/2015
IPHD contracted:
 School desks =1,656
 Blackboards = 92
 Teacher desks = 92
 Teacher chairs = 92
 Desks for pre-school = 486
 Chairs for pre-school = 972
 Pre–school teachers desks = 26
 Pre-school teachers chairs = 26
A total of 92 classrooms in 40
schools and 26 rooms in 9
kindergartens will be fully equiped
Wells
57 wells built from 2012-2014
Well from the Portuguese colonial
period, Nhacoba, Quinara region
IPHD well in Ga’mbana, Tombali
region
Wells
IPHD well in Binar, Oio region
IPHD well in Empada, Quinara
region
Repair and improvement of school
kitchens
School kitchens
 Kitchens built – from 61 in
2007/2008 to 146 in
2011/2012 to 248 in
2013/2014
 Kitchens & storerooms
repaired - 90
 Kitchen utensils (spoon,
plate, cup, cooking pots ) –
distributed to 72, 392
children in 421 schools
 Improved fireplaces – 80
schools
 Community supplies fire
wood and contributes local
ingredients (salt, sugar,
onion, dried fish, spices)
Repair and improvement of school
kitchens
• Picture to be added
Improvement of school kitchens:
Improved fireplaces
 Training of Trainers
sessions (in partnership
with local NGO
Palmerinha) = 12
 Participants = 160 (80
parents, 80 teachers)
 2,500 posters on
construction and use of
the improved fireplaces
printed and distributed
 2,000 leaflets on
environment protection
printed and distributed
Development of school gardens
School gardens
 Gardens developed – 270
 Gardening equipment
kits, fitosanitary products
and seeds distributed – 658
 Training sessions – 38
 Participants – 1,362
(teachers and parents)
 Gardening Manual
created and distributed to
all participants
Development of school gardens
Training in gardening, Ingore,
Cacheu region
Nursery, Gambana, Quinara
region
Development of PTAs and community
associations
Development of PTAs and
community associations
 PTAs created = 512
 No. of PTAs members = 2,560
 School management commites
created = 512
 No. of SMC members = 2,560
PTA structure in Guinea Bissau
National Directorate
(5 members)
9 Regional Offices (45 members)
38 Sector Offices (190 members)
512 Community PTA
organizations (2,560 members)
TOTAL PTAs members = over 15,000
in about 70% of the schools in GB
* No PTAs existed in GB before
IPHD school lunch program*
Strenghtening of PTAs and
community associations
2 national conferences
“Parents Teachers Associations in the
service of National Education” – Bissau,
December 9-11, 2009
125 participants
”Parents Teachers Associations – Pillars
of an Inclusive Education System” –
Bissau, April 17-19, 2013 150
participants
 9 regional conferences and meetings
– 223 participants
 29 training sessions, workshops and
seminars – 935 participants
“Guidelines for
the PTA”
“ PTA Statute”
all 9 regional offices received IT
equiment
 By-monthly radio program on Radio
Sol Mansi
See attached hard copy of the NPTA
plan for 2015/2016
Rehabilitation of the MoE teacher
training center in Bolama
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1 building for the female students
dormitories
1 building for the male students
dormitories
1 building for the principal’s
residency
1 multifunctional room/hall
kitchen, dining room for teachers
and students
water tower, annex for the
generator, fence
Equipment
No. of students graduated
- before rehabilitation = 75
- after rehabilitation = over 300 (first
year)
Rehabilitation of the MoE teacher
training center in Bolama
Rehabilitation of the MoE teacher
training center in Bolama
The center after rehabilitation
The center after rehabilitation
Purchase of local food
and condiments
From 2005 to 2012 IPHD
purchased 911.51MT of local
food and condiments:
- Iodized salt = 177.89 MT
- Tomato = 80.52 MT
- Onion = 54.10 MT
- Sugar = 101.31 MT
- Cabaceira = 497.73 MT
- Multimistura = 160 kg
Partnership concluded
Project
description/
period
Field
“Construction and
rehabilitation of 9
schools in the
regions of Quinara
and Tombali” –
June October 2014
Education
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Education
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15,624
7,145
WASH
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65,060
37,785
“National
Contribution
UNICEF
Contribution IPHD
In
kind
In kind
Cash USD
98,650
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Total USD
Status
143,465
Completed
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22,769
Completed
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102,845
In progress
Cash USD
44,815
Mobilization for
Education” – June
to October 2014
Promotion and
adoption of
hygiene good
practices in
schools and
kindergartens
Partnership (II)
Project
Field
description/
period
Contribution
UNICEF
In kind
Cash USD In kind
Distribution of
over 1.6 million
textbooks and
school manuals to
children from the
1st to the 6th
grade in public,
community and
private schools at
national level
1,600,000
(est.value)
44,850
36,190
1,600,000
224,184
81,120
GRAND
TOTAL
Education
Contribution IPHD
Total USD Status
Cash USD
1,681,040
44,815
1,950,019
In progress
Public/private input
• State Department Anti-trafficking project to rescue trafficked
children, to return them to their families and to pay for their
reintegration, including schooling – US$ 400,000 (project completed
last year)
• PLAN International contributed US$30,000 to the school textbooks
distribution
• Tufts University raised US$6,300 to build one school for IPHD in
Dandu, Oio region
• The Alaska Salmon Board made a donation of approx. 20 tons of
canned salmon that was used in the school lunch program
• Medical Missionaries from US collected medical supplies valued at
about US$150,000 and made them available to IPHD
Further achievements
• Children’ attentiveness in classes improved through the daily meals
provided in the supported schools
• Diarrheas decreased by 52 percent through the use of potato flakes
as a program commodity (cf. IPHD/U.S. Potato Board study, 2010)
• Through the rehabilitation of the MOE Teacher Training School, over
300 new teachers have been trained and placed in primary schools
• IPHD is cooperating closely with UNICEF and the MoE in developing
and enhancing a new curriculum for primary education as well as a
new curriculum for the teachers’ training schools focusing on the
development of managerial and educational abilities of teachers
• IPHD has strengthened the relationship with UNICEF in various
areas of intervention such as school infrastructure, education
campaigns, hygiene and health, and textbook distribution
Lost opportunities
• European Union project to research the impact
on nutrition and health of children through the
use of multimistura, a locally produced
micronutrient, in the meals of primary and preschool children = USD 1,000,000
• As result of the two USDA micronutrient
projects carried out by IPHD GB, the EU
recognized IPHD’s ability to carry out scientific
research on multimistura
• IPHD GB now has the capability to undertake
research projects
Government policies and reforms due
to the McGovern-Dole program
• The National School Canteen Law was passed in June 2010 through
IPHD and World Food Program initiatives
• The Ministry of Education set up its National School Canteen
Directorate within the Ministry
• An Interministerial Committee (representatives of the Ministries of
Agriculture, Economy, Finance, Energy, and Social Affairs and
Health) on school feeding issues was established
• The National Parents Teachers Association, established by IPHD in
2007, was recognized by the Government
• MOE plans to give 2 percent of the students’ enrolment fees to the
PTA to help cover PTA expenses
• Since 2006 the MoE has one of its staff members in the IPHD office
to coordinate activities between the Ministry and IPHD
• MoE and PTAs provide cooks, school lunch managers, school
storage rooms, and fuel and some utensils for school lunches
Staff IPHD
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1 Country Director
1 Deputy Country Director
1 Programs Coordinator
6 Project Coordinators
1 Coordinator for AMIC volunteers
1 Assistant coordinator for AMIC volunteers
1 Assistant project coordinator
1 Financial and Admin. Officer
1 Lawyer
1 Bookeeper
1 Logistics officer
3 Logistics assistants warehouse
14 Monitors
2 Data base officers
1 Secretary
7 AMIC volunteers
3 Parents Teachers Association staff
4 Drivers
1 Office cleaning lady
4 Service staff
11 Office and warehouse security personnel
MoE school canteen staffing structure
• 1 director/1 assistant within MoE
• 9 regional directors with responsibilities in the
field of school canteen activities
• 38 sector directors with responsibilities in the
field of school canteen activities
• All staff mentioned above have been paid by
the Ministry of Education of Guinea-Bissau
during the last 4 years
Letters of support form the
government of Guinea Bissau
• Two translated letters from the MoE showing
their commitment to continuing the school
lunch program and eventually through a
gradual process over 4 years taking full
responsibility for the school lunch program are
in the hand outs provided by IPHD