FAS Online logo Return to the FAS Home page

Donor Support by Country and Project

OTHER DONORS SUPPORTING GFE PROJECTS

Country/Program Donor Organization Activity
LATIN AMERICA    
Bolivia/Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) Ministry of Health

PTA

De-worming medication

Cooks & fuel-gas and wood

Bolivia/ Project Concern International (PCI)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Municipal Governments (43)

 

 

 

Ministry of Education

 

 

 

Ministry of Health

 

 

Office of the First Lady of Bolivia

 

Solar Water Disinfection Process (SODIS) Foundation

Albert B. Sabin Foundation

 

United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

International Distribution Systems

 

Colgate-Palmolive

Peace Corps

Transporting commodities, cash contributions for food, and complementary activities, such as green- houses, ecological stoves.

Providing training and education materials

(possible agreement for $100,000).

Conducting hearing and vision exams, and possible donation of micronutrients.

Paying sales tax (approximately $148,000) in the wheat monetization.

Training teachers in solar water disinfection.

 

Providing funding of grants for latrines ($15,000).

Donating 14,500 trees for environment/natural resource training.

Donating 2,000 pounds of vegetable and flower seeds (valued at $20,000) to be used in school gardens.

Donating toothbrushes to Global Food for Education (GFE) schools.

Volunteers working with school gardens/environment programs.

 

Bolivia/World Food Program (WFP) The World Health Organization, in cooperation with regional health authorities

Governments of Japan and Norway

Government of Italy

Participating municipalities

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

The World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO);

and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

Providing de-worming medication and hygienic education.

Canned fish

$135,000 in commodities

$230,000 to cover operating costs

Construct sanitary facilities, water systems, and training in nutrition, children’s rights and educational issues.

Contributing more than $13 million per year in support of the Government of Bolivia’s educational efforts.

Providing material support and participating in training activities for teachers, parents, and schools.

Colombia/WFP

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Government of Colombia

FAO, United Nations Development Program (UNDP)

PTAs and NGOs

United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)

United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

Covering costs associated with the sale of donated wheat and the purchase/distribution of local commodities, $118,000

Providing complementary agricultural and capacity-building projects, respectively.

Monitor food shipments for quantity and quality and contribute $290,000 to supplement morning snack

Teacher training

HIV/AIDS Education

Dominican Republic/Government of the Dominican Republic Secretariat of Education(SEE)

In-kind support from SEE

Institutional Donations—public and private sector

NGO Counterpart Contributions administrative support

Community Contribution

Rations provided $1,744,206

Desks, supplies, materials for new classrooms, hired teachers $135,000

Land donated for schools and for school gardens, equipment, and materials

$211,836

10-15% of total project costs in administrative and technical support contributed $3,457,137

Land, labor and materials as counterpart contribution

$2,389,836

Total $7,938,015

Dominican Republic/WFP IADB ($52 million) and World Bank ($37 million)

Ministry of Education ($3.7 million)

Denmark, Germany, and Norway

Supporting training, de-worming, weight/height census, etc.

Supporting staff salaries, food receipt/transportation/ warehouses, non-food items, and training.

Commodities

El Salvador/WFP Government of El Salvador

U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)

UNICEF

Pan American Health Organization

Local community members

Local private foundation

Providing $4.7 million for internal transportation, storage, and handling of WFP supplies. Providing and administering de-worming medicine.

Contributing training materials through its PROSAMI program for maternal and childcare.

Developing training for community leaders.

Providing technical assistance to develop nutrition and health education modules.

Contributing cash for the transportation of the commodities from the warehouses to the schools.

54 pilot school gardens

Guatemala/WorldShare (WS) Ministry of Health Providing health education, water sanitation, and de-worming in selected schools.
Guatemala Catholic Relief Services (CRS) (Continued) Community volunteers 800 community members donated almost 26,000 hours of volunteer labor working on 256 infrastructure improvement projects.
Honduras/WFP Government of Honduras

International Donor Community, International and local private sector fund raising

Providing $3.7 million for direct operational costs; additional funding for purchase of food rations.

$4.4 million

Honduras/CRS Government of Honduras/International Monetary Fund (IMF)

PRAF

Ministry of Health

UNFAO

COCEPRADIL

Purchasing school supplies for needy children.

 

Bonuses to mothers for children enrolled; de-worming; sustainable agriculture training as well as sanitation, health and water

Nicaragua/Project Concern International (PCI)

 

 

 

Ministry of Health

Emergency Social Investment Fund

Ministry for Family and Children

USAID Base II Model School Program

Administering de-worming activities.

Repairing and painting schools using European Union funding.

Supporting complementary feeding and educational program for mothers and children under 6.

Focusing on teacher effectiveness and community participation.

Nicaragua/WFP

 

 

Government of Nicaragua

Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports

Feed The Children Norway, Medecins du Monde, Action Against Hunger, CARE and UNICEF

Covering 50 percent of landside food transport, storage, and handling (LTSH) costs.

Providing additional school furniture, teaching materials, infrastructure improvement, and teachers’ salaries.

Technical assistance, kitchen equipment, learning materials, infrastructure rehabilitation and logistics support.

Peru/WFP World Bank

European Community (EC) and USAID

Ministry of Health

NGOs

Improving educational quality, institutional development, and infrastructure.

Providing assistance to the Ministry of Education to conduct its national school feeding program.

De-worming medication

Establish school gardens and greenhouses

 

 

AFRICA

   
Benin/CRS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

International Foundation for Education and Self-Help

World Education (WE)

Medical Care Development International (MCDI)

Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere (CARE)

Community Involvement and In-kind contribution

 

 

 

Extending access to ethnically marginal groups within the GFE schools.

Providing parent-teacher association (PTA) capacity building training for GFE schools (USAID-funded program).

Providing PTA health education training for GFE schools (USAID-funded program).

Joining girls’ educational component program with GFE schools.

8,700 parents and community members involved, cooks, transport, labor to build facilities,

contribute fuel, wood, cereal, yams, cassava and cash contributions.

Cameroon/WFP

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Government of Cameroon

Islamic Development Bank

UNESCO

World Bank

UNICEF

Providing 45 percent of the internal shipping and handling costs for the program.

Renovating 48 schools.

Distributing school textbooks.

Funding a $45 million project aimed at rehabilitating the educational sector.

Intervening with a pilot school program to promote girls’ education in poverty- afflicted northern provinces; construction of potable water systems for schools.

Chad/WFP World Bank, The European Union and France

Government of Chad,

UNICEF, German Office for Technical Cooperation (GTZ), Catholic Aid and Development

Providing funds to improve current education structures.

Conducting periodic awareness-raising campaigns to promote girls’ education and increase community involvement.

Congo/International Partnership for Human Development (IPHD)

 

 

 

 

 

Community Involvement and in-kind contributions

UNICEF

PTAs

PRESICE (local NGO)

Parental and community involvement through volunteer labor, donated food, infrastructure repair

De-worming medication

Teaching materials and books

HIV/AIDS prevention education

Cote d’Ivoire/WFP Community involvement

 

Volunteer labor to build latrines, kitchens and canteens and cafeterias.
Eritrea/Mercy Corps (MC) Ministry of Education

Private Funds- Scottish family

United Kingdom Community Fund

PTA and Community Involvement

Appointed a School Feeding Project Officer to monitor program; a PTA Developer and a Girls’ Education Specialist

Water Solutions Projects—water supplied with donkeys

Leverage funding to improve educational environment $500,000

Labor, logistical support and infrastructure repair, storage facilities, road repairs so that biscuits can be transported.

Ethiopia/WFP

 

 

 

 

 

Government of Ethiopia

Denmark and Germany

FAO

World Health Organization, UNICEF and UNDP

Contributing more than $1 million per year toward the program, including internal transportation, storage, and handling costs of commodities.

Commodities: pea wheat blend and salt

19 School Gardens

Health initiatives

Gambia/WFP

 

 

 

Government of Gambia, parent-teacher groups, World Bank, UNICEF

Canadian International Development Assistance (CIDA), WHO and World Bank

Shinnyo-en, Japanese NGO

Government of Austria

Supporting WFP education and nutrition objectives by rehabilitating schools, training female teachers, and raising community awareness/support for girls’ education.

De-worming medication and education program

$38,000 for cooking and serving utensils

Canned meat

Ghana/WFP Government of Ghana Providing $1,260,000, including international shipping and handling costs.
Guinea/WFP German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ), Japanese Development Agency, AFRICARE, and the World Bank

Government of Guinea

Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA)

Peace Corps Volunteers

Funding development activities in the education sector (e.g., parent/teacher training, provision of vitamins) that will support WFP school feeding and enrollment efforts.

Covering recurring project implementation costs (e.g., staff salaries, premises, etc.)

Income generating agricultural projects

Works with communities sensitizing them about the value of education in their children’s lives

Kenya/WFP

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kenya Ministry of Education

Kenya Ministry of Health, and UNICEF

School Feeding Committees under the PTAs

Contributing pulses (beans), coordinating food distribution, monitoring/reporting on school feeding activities in primary schools, and coordinating expansion of feeding activities to students’ families.

Carrying out nutritional surveys and follow-up on malnutrition cases; teacher training programs

Oversee the storage and distribution of good; built kitchens and stoves where needed.

Madagascar/ADRA N/A N/A
Mozambique/WFP Government of Mozambique

UNESCO, UNICEF, World Bank, Danish International Development Agency, and Swedish International Development Agency

Donations from Canada, Italy, Germany, Japan and Denmark

Canadian Government, Ministries of Health and Education, and World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank.

UNICEF

FAO

Contributing approximately $1 million per year for every year of WFP school feeding implementation.

 

Supporting WFP activities in areas such as rehabilitation of boarding school infrastructure and provision of teaching materials.

Commodities to complete food basket.

De-worming medication and health education seminars

Water and sanitation facilities

School Gardens

Senegal/CPI World Initiative for Soy in Human Health (WISHH)

Ministry of Health

Community Involvement

Pilot study to evaluate feasibility of fortifying school lunches with soy protein products.

De-worming program

Contributing cash or food to complement the meals

Tanzania/WFP

 

 

 

 

UNICEF, UNESCO, and Agency for Personal Service

Government of Tanzania

Germany (15%), Denmark (8%), Italy (7%) and Norway (2%).

WHO and Tanzanian Ministry of Health , The Ministry of Education & Culture.

Japanese Government through UN Human Security Trust Fund

Continuing joint efforts with WFP to increase school enrollment, especially for girls.

Contributing an estimated $263,000 over 5 years.

Commodities that complemented USA provisions to complete the food basket.

De-worming medication and education program

$5,550,000 for construction of classrooms and improvement of water and sanitation systems; improvement of school farms and gardens for sustainability, provision of HIV/AIDS training in coordination with UNICEF.

Uganda/Agricultural Cooperative Development International/Volunteers in Overseas Cooperative Assistance (ACDI/VOCA)

and

Catholic Relief Services (CRS)

Ministry of Education and Sports, Gulu Primary Teacher’s College and Norwegian Refugee Council

PTAs

Local NGOs

Teacher training and curriculum development

Voluntary participation in program implementation; developing vegetable gardens, and other income generation projects

Provide health and nutrition education

Uganda/Save the Children

 

 

 

 

WFP

District Officials

Parents and Community Involvement and in-kind contributions

Information sharing.

Monitor information

Financial and labor for construction of storage, kitchen, toilets) volunteers who assist with implementation and monitoring.

Uganda/WFP Ministry of Education and Sports

Ministry of Health

Government of Sweden

Paying 25 percent of

international shipping and handling costs.

De-worming medication

$12,500 for cooking utensils

 

 

ASIA

   
Bangladesh/Land O’Lakes (LOL) Asia Development Bank (ADB)

FAO

U.S. Department of Agriculture and USAID supported agro-based Industries Technology

Development Project

Providing technical assistance in discussions with the government on school feeding and educational quality.

Providing technical assistance in discussions concerning dairy development programs.

Identifying successful producers/processors for possible technical assistance.

Bhutan/WFP

 

 

 

 

 

 

Government of Bhutan

ADB

Denmark, India, Switzerland, UNICEF

International Development Association loans from World Bank

UNICEF

WHO

Constructing additional boarding schools.

Expanding teacher training.

Principal donors to WFP’s school feeding program.

Developing school infrastructures, and teacher training.

Pilot project to fortify school meals with iron and vitamin A; upgrade water and sanitation facilities in existing schools; building materials for 100 new primary schools

De-worming program

Cambodia/WFP Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports (MOEYS)

World Bank

 

WHO, UNICEF and Ministry of Health

Community involvement

Helping beneficiary communities cover the costs of providing school breakfasts.

Supporting MOEYS’ activities.

De-worming medication and education program and HIV/AIDS prevention education

Volunteer labor to build kitchens and food storage facilities, cooks; in-kind contributions of fresh vegetables, spices, condiments, fuel and water.

Kyrgyz Republic/MC UNICEF

 

Asia Development Bank, SOROS, Peace Corps, UNHCR, USAID and Counterpart Sheriktesh

Developing linkages between water sanitation grant recipients and UNICEF.

Implement water sanitation grants

Nepal/WFP

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ADB, EC, Finnish Development Corporation (FINNIDA), Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Norwegian Development Corporation (NORAD), UNICEF, and the World Bank

UNDP, Community Owned Primary Education Program (COPE)

UNDP

WHO

FAO

Donating to the WFP school feeding program.

Empower local people to plan and deficiently deliver quality primary education in community schools.;

Energy efficient stoves

De-worming medication

School Gardens

Pakistan/WFP UNESCO and UNICEF

World Bank, ADB, EU, Canada, and the Netherlands

Government of Pakistan ($23.0 million)

 

Working with WFP to strengthen community involvement/support for educating girls.

Providing funds to support girls’ take-home rations and additional efforts to solicit greater community involvement.

Contributing more than $9 million per year for teachers’ salaries, school building upkeep, supplies, transportation of donated food, etc.

Tajikistan/WFP National and international non-governmental organizations (NGO’s), including Action contre la faim

Community Involvement

Collaborating with WFP to promote school attendance and improve child nutrition.

Contributions of fresh vegetables, firewood and cooking facilities

Vietnam/LOL

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ministry of Health

National Nutrition Institute

UNICEF and An Giang Plant Protection Co.

PTA in Duong Van Hoa School (Dong Thap)

Tetra Pak

Roche

Assisting in de-worming program by providing administering personnel.

Providing technical assistance in nutritional composition of milk product and biscuit, and guidance to health education programs.

Provided school supplies and scholarships

500 notebooks for children

Contributed 50% toward cost of burners used to burn the packaging and reduce harm to the environment.

Contributed 50% towards cost of education brochure on the value of fortified foods

 

 

 

EASTERN EUROPE

   
Albania/CARE UNICEF, UNDP, and the Albanian Mine Awareness Foundation

Albanian Red Cross

Community Involvement

Ministry of Education and Science and Institute of Pedagogical Research

Produced mine awareness posters that are being distributed by CARE to GFE schools.

Donating blankets, kitchen utensils, and soap.

PTAs and community involved in implementing program and environmental awareness campaigns

Teacher training

Albania/CRS Albanian Red Cross

Parent Councils (PC’s)

Donating blankets, kitchen utensils, and soap.

Community involvement in program operations

Albania Mercy/USA Albanian Red Cross

Community Involvement

Donating blankets, kitchen utensils, and soap.

PTAs and local organizations trained to assist in program implementation

Bosnia and Herzegovina/CRS Institute of Public Health, Office of School Nutrition

Community Involvement

Providing technical assistance on menu development and nutritional content of school meals.

Parents and community contribute labor and logistical support

Georgia/CPI Cancelled Cancelled
Georgia/International Orthodox Christian Charities (IOCC) Ministry of Education

Center for Civic and Environmental Education (NGO)

Community Involvement

Educational support

Environmental education materials

Labor and logistical support, infrastructure repairs

Moldova/IPHD Community Involvement and in-kind contributions $1,800,000.
MIDDLE EAST    
Lebanon/IOCC University of Balamand

PTAs

NGOs

Developed interactive educational component

Involved in program implementation

Computer lab, bread making machine

Yemen/ADRA Ministry of Education

Government of Yemen

USAID/Yemen’s Basic Health and Education Program

Parent Committees

Support desks, classrooms and other infrastructure

Small warehouses at distribution centers for storage.

Training manuals for parent committees

Involved in program implementation

 

 


Last modified: Monday, April 14, 2008 06:13:23 PM