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\u00a9 WFP\/Caroline Melo<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u00a9 WFP\/Caroline Melo<\/p>\n
This week, between September 30 and October 4, a delegation of 11 people from the Republic of Cameroon came to Brasilia to learn more about the National School Feeding Program (PNAE). The main points on the agenda were understanding how school feeding works with local purchases and the federal government’s cistern program.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The visit focused on issues such as the PNAE\u2019s funding mechanisms, the implementation of the programme and the models used in Brazil, nutritional aspects, management mechanisms and resource mobilization, as well as how the programme\u2019s institutional and legal structures work.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n For Oyono Adams Daniel, Secretary General of the Ministry of Basic Education of the Republic of Cameroon, the visit is a chance to learn from the Brazilian model. \u201cThe Brazilian government has one of the best results in the world when it comes to school feeding and that’s why the Cameroonian government sent us on this mission,\u201d he said.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The schedule of technical visits gave the delegation the opportunity to meet government entities such as the National Education Development Fund (FNDE), the National Supply Company (CONAB), as well as participate in a meeting with representatives of the Cisterns program of the Ministry of Development and Social Assistance, Family and Fight against Hunger (MDS), with the presence of Minister Wellington Dias, to talk about water resource management and its relationship with food and nutritional security. In a presentation by the World Bank, the delegation was also shown the healthy saber tool for analyzing school feeding programs.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n For the Director of the Center of Excellence against Hunger of WFP in Brazil, Daniel Balaban, South-South Cooperation is an essential tool for overcoming hunger and food insecurity in the world. \u201cIt is very important that we work together so that our countries can overcome this ghost of food and nutrition insecurity,\u201d said Daniel during the opening of the mission.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The visit was organized by the Centre of Excellence against Hunger of WFP in Brazil, in partnership with the National Education Development Fund (FNDE) and the Brazilian Cooperation Agency (ABC).<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Field visits<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Throughout the mission, the delegation was able to make several field visits and get to know how everything works, from planting and buying local food to managing and providing school meals in schools.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The first visit was to the Associa\u00e7\u00e3o dos Agricultores Familiares da Eco Comunidade do Assentamento 15 de Agosto (AFECA), where the delegation got to know the farm and the farmers and talked about aspects inherent in supplying organic and non-organic food to the PNAE. The delegation then got to know a family benefiting from the federal government’s Cisterns Program, in the Estrela da Lua settlement, in S\u00e3o Sebasti\u00e3o, in the Federal District.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n They also visited two schools located in Gama: a rural school, CED Engenho das Lages, and an urban school, CED 08. At both schools, the delegation met with the school\u2019s management, took part in the children\u2019s snack time, visited the kitchens and food storage, and had the chance to ask questions about the implementation of school meals directly to the school\u2019s technical staff.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n