Priorities and funded actions
Objectives
- To increase solid evidence for policy decisions on school meals
- To quantify the effects of home grown school meals on targeted students and communities on indicators of interest
Priority
To conduct a randomized control trial to quantify the effects of Tsolata II interventions on three main domains of interest. The first are children’s nutritional outcomes, the second children’s learning outcomes, and the third income and welfare effects on surrounding smallholder farmers from whom the food to prepare the meals will be sourced
Among financed actions
Evidence generation concerning homegrown school meals in Malawi. The action should collect, analyse, disseminate data for policymaking and better coordination, planning, implementation, and monitoring of national school feeding programmes
Additional information
- This call for proposals is an open call for proposals
- Initital duration of the action: between 40 and 48 months
Eligibility
- Be a legal person
- Be a specific type of organisation such as: non-governmental organisation, public sector operator, local authority, international (inter governmental) organisation
- Be a specific type of organisation such as: international research institutions or non-governmental organisations or any legal entity with the capacity to contribute to the purpose of the grant
- Be established in a Member State of the European Union or in one of the countries eligible for NDICI- Global Europe (this obligation does not apply to international organisations)
- Be directly responsible for the preparation and management of the action with the co-applicant(s) and affiliated entity(ies), not acting as an intermediary
- Have a proven track record of conducting randomized controlled trials, preferably on school meals programmes