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3.C Number of WFP-supported countries that have committed to their policies and/or increased their budgets to national school meal programmes

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3.C Number of WFP-supported countries that have committed to their policies and/or increased their budgets to national school meal programmes

VERSION

V1.0 - 2026.04

INDICATOR CODE

3.C

TECHNICAL OWNER

PPGS

INDICATOR TYPE

Corporate Level Outcome Indicator

Strategic Outcome: 3. Enabled government and partner programmes

UNIT OF MEASUREMENT & ANALYSIS

Number of countries

Sub-categories:

  • National policies

  • National budgets

INDICATOR DEFINITION

This indicator is reported in two components. It counts the number of WFP-supported countries that have commitments to school meals in:

  • National policies. This is a cumulative figure.

  • National budget.This is not a cumulative figure. Countries are counted either 1) when there is an increase in the amount of financial commitment from the previous reporting year or 2) where there is a new financial commitment, where no commitments existed in the previous reporting year.

National school meal programmes are programmes designed, implemented, funded and/or managed, in part or in full, by the government, sometimes with the support of partners, to provide food on a regular basis to schoolchildren.

MANDATORY COUNTRY-LEVEL INDICATORS & INCLUSION CRITERIA FOR APR AGGREGATION

This indicator is not informed by a mandatory country-level indicator.

Information on this indicator is reported by each country on a biennial basis. Data is collected from government respondents through a global survey (e.g., GCNF survey) and aggregated for reporting in WFP’s flagship publication on school meals, the State of School Feeding Worldwide.

CALCULATION & AGGREGATION
METHODOLOGY

Count the number of countries that have

  1. Committed to school meal programmes in their national policies (Policies) and/or

  2. Either increased or made a new financial commitment to school meal programmes in their national budgets (National budgets)

DISAGGREGATION FOR REPORTING IN APR

Mandatory:

  • Commitment to national policies / Commitment to national budgets

Optional:

  • Region

  • Country

  • Country income classification

BASELINE

59 countries included provisions for school meals in their national policies, while 24 national governments increased domestic funding for school meal programmes.

LIMITATIONS

This indicator is drawn from the State of School Feeding Worldwide, which is published every two years. As such, the baseline figure should be treated as indicative rather than definitive.