[{"bbox": [147, 151, 1080, 208], "category": "List-item", "text": "SO2: Increase access of smallholder farmers, particularly women, to local food markets represented by schools implementing school feeding interventions"}, {"bbox": [147, 222, 1044, 274], "category": "List-item", "text": "SO3: Improve the management and ownership of the national school feeding programme by the national stakeholders and communities."}, {"bbox": [147, 291, 985, 318], "category": "Text", "text": "The Outputs to be delivered by this action contributing to the corresponding Outcomes are:"}, {"bbox": [147, 329, 419, 357], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Contributing to Outcome 1:**"}, {"bbox": [147, 368, 1082, 423], "category": "Text", "text": "*Expected output 1.1:* A nutritious and diversified meal during school days provided to targeted primary school children (including in ECD centres)."}, {"bbox": [147, 435, 1082, 488], "category": "Text", "text": "*Expected output 1.2:* Increased sensitisation of targeted school committee members and parents on the importance of nutritious and diversified diets."}, {"bbox": [147, 500, 419, 528], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Contributing to Outcome 2:**"}, {"bbox": [147, 540, 1082, 593], "category": "Text", "text": "*Expected output 2.1:* Increased smallholder-farmer's capacities, with a focus on women, to produce nutritious and diversified food, apt for the national school feeding programme."}, {"bbox": [147, 605, 1082, 658], "category": "Text", "text": "*Expected output 2.2:* Strengthened capacities of smallholder farmers and their organisations on quality agricultural production and marketing, with a focus on women"}, {"bbox": [147, 670, 419, 698], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Contributing to Outcome 3:**"}, {"bbox": [147, 710, 905, 737], "category": "Text", "text": "*Expected output 3.1:* Increased solid evidence for policy decisions on school meals"}, {"bbox": [147, 749, 1082, 802], "category": "Text", "text": "*Expected output 3.2:* Increased capacities of Government, at both national and district level, on coordination, planning, implementation and monitoring of the national school feeding programme."}, {"bbox": [147, 814, 1066, 867], "category": "Text", "text": "*Expected output 3.3:* Increased mechanisms and tools for community support and contribution to the management and implementation of school meals."}, {"bbox": [147, 881, 426, 908], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 3.2 Indicative Activities"}, {"bbox": [147, 923, 443, 950], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### Activities related to output 1.1"}, {"bbox": [147, 962, 1082, 1070], "category": "Text", "text": "Activities related to Output 1.1. and Output 1.2 will focus on ensuring children are provided with diversified and nutritious school meals, during school days (an average of 200 days per school year), incentivising access to education, especially for girls at risk of dropping out, and linking school meals to smallholder farmers through local purchases."}, {"bbox": [147, 1082, 756, 1108], "category": "Text", "text": "**Activity 1.1.1 Provision of diversified and nutritious school meals.**"}, {"bbox": [147, 1120, 1082, 1200], "category": "Text", "text": "Through the action, **400,000 children in primary schools and 13,000 children attending ECD centres** (or community-based child-care centres – CBCCs) will receive at least one diversified, nutritious and hot meal each school day."}, {"bbox": [147, 1212, 1082, 1266], "category": "Text", "text": "**Activity 1.1.2:** Facilitate linkages between smallholder farmers and participating schools via decentralised tendering processes."}, {"bbox": [147, 1278, 1082, 1411], "category": "Text", "text": "Capital and technical assistance to schools and district councils for the provision of school meals will be provided through the action. The action will empower district councils through schools and ECD centres to purchase food locally from organised farmer groups through competitive tendering processes. Relevant staff, school committee members and farmer organisations will be trained on procurement procedures and financial management according to developed standard operating procedures (SOPs)."}, {"bbox": [147, 1424, 443, 1450], "category": "Section-header", "text": "### Activities related to output 1.2"}, {"bbox": [147, 1462, 1007, 1489], "category": "Text", "text": "**Activity 1.2.1:** Use school feeding as a platform to increase awareness on health and nutrition."}, {"bbox": [147, 1501, 1082, 1608], "category": "Text", "text": "Nutrition education will be promoted through both messages/nutrition talks and practical learning through school gardens, cooking demonstrations and promotion of hygiene and sanitation targeting children, their families and school committee members also using materials developed through Afikepo supported interventions."}, {"bbox": [977, 1681, 1082, 1705], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 8 of 26"}]