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and implementing agency: World Food Programme – WFP
 Total
project budget: LE 20.842.838 (around USD 3.789.606)
The
World Food Summit held in Rome in 2008 represented an opportunity to
reach a wide consensus on the importance of the social protection for
the poorest groups of the population. Furthermore, recommendations to
most relevant United Nations agencies were made to ensure adequate
resources for dissemination and enhancement of food assistance. Fighting
hunger and malnutrition is a priority for Italy, which exerts
considerable efforts to curb the food crisis in several countries.
To
support poverty alleviation policies promoted by the Egyptian
Government, this initiative continues the previous project called
“School Feeding in Upper Egypt”, implemented within the first phase of
the Debt for Development Swap Program. It is geared to the realization
of a pilot system for distributing high nutritional content food to
children and their families, in the food safety high risk Governorates
of Minya and Beni Suef, in Upper Egypt.
 In
collaboration with the “Girls Education Initiative” launched by the
Ministry of Family and Population/National Council for Childhood and
Motherhood – NCCM, the project will target young girls attending female
communitarian primary schools.
The
initiative, that follows the successful strategic approach addressing
children and women identified by the Italian Cooperation, will be
supported by the Istituto Nazionale della Nutrizione (National
Institute for Nutrition) of Rome.
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