- Investing in scaling up coverage of the Home-Grown School Meals programme, integrating nutrition and ensuring linkages to the agricultural sector to contribute to a sustainable food system.
- Providing effective coordination across relevant sectors for greater impact across education, agriculture, nutrition, health and social protection sectors, collaborating with national, regional and international stakeholders to support the Home-Grown School Meals programme.
- Institutionalise into the Home-Grown School Meals programme robust monitoring and evaluation frameworks, accountability tools including capacities to improve effective and efficient management of the programme.
- Invest in research and knowledge management to document as well as share best practices and lessons to improve implementation and inform the design and management of Home-Grown School Meals programmes through the South to South and Triangular Cooperation Framework.
Zambia
National Commitments
Commitment submitted on
Declaration signed by
the Ministry of Education
National Progress Reports
- Programme has expanded from 70 to 106 districts and is currently reaching 4.6 million out of 6.6 million learners coupled with increased yearly government budgetary allocation to the HGSM programme since 2022.
- Development of a diversification plan that promotes localized menus supported by a local procurement strategy linking smallholder farmers to the programme.
- Food Tracking System being piloted to support accountability and evidence-based decision-making.