How have high food prices impacted funding of school feeding programs?
The cost of running the program has increased by 50 percent since early 2007. Therefore, WFP either has to raise resources by an additional 50 percent, or do less with the same amount of money. However, it should be noted that the actual funding crisis for CHILD/FFE came before the rising food/fuel prices really affected the program, as the Resource Allocation to Ethiopia’s Country Program was reduced by 43% from 2006 to 2007. This resulted in a significant reduction of the CHILD/FFE program from supporting 653,000 school children to only 378,000 school children. The program is now recovering and currently reaching 414,078 children. The Country Program plan is to support 438,000 school children this year. How can someone help the school feeding program? Although the funding looks very good at the moment, a program like CHILD/FFE needs multi-annual commitments and funding in order to ensure continuity of the program and achieve results. Therefore, it is important to continue raising fun
