Countries: Benin
Project Dates: April 2018 – October 2019
Catholic Relief Services (CRS)’s LRP project aims to provide students with nutritious meals by developing a replicable and scalable model for decentralized school feeding that effectively procures and distributes commodities locally. Conducted in May-August 2018, the baseline study used surveys, focus groups and key informant interviews to establish benchmark values against which progress on the impact and outcome indicators can be tracked, and to inform decision-making about early project implementation planning and execution.
The results demonstrate the need for improved nutrition and eating patterns among students to achieve a minimum acceptable diet. In achieving improved student outcomes, Producer Associations and School Management Committees have the potential to improve their organizational capacity and successfully delivery an efficient and sustainable model for provision of nutritious foods to students.
Scheduled for mid-2020, the final evaluation will focus on assessing the relevance of the interventions, the effectiveness of the implementation strategies and activities, the efficiency of the project, the progress on effect and impact indicators, and achievements related to sustainability.
Our local partner is ODeSPoL at ENSPD, University of Parakou, Benin.
An executive summary of the baseline evaluation report can be found here
An executive summary of the endline evaluation report can be found here
