Rwanda’s National Stakeholders Consultation Meeting to take place on 26th and 27th February in Kigali. The event aims to develop common understanding of school feeding programme among actors, define and prioritise its objectives; identify an appropriate implementation model(s) that can be prototyped/scaled up over time.

1. National Consultation on School Feeding in Rwanda
26-27 February 2013
Kigali, Rwanda
DAY 1: VISION SETTING
Time Activity Speaker/Moderator
08:00 Registration
08:30 Opening Remarks Cecília Prado, Brazilian Cooperation
Agency – 5 mins
Lamin Manneh, United Nations Resident
Coordinator, Rwanda – 5 mins
Pierre Habumuremyi, Prime Minister,
Rwanda – 20 mins
Setting the Stage
Panel: Moderated by: John Rutayisire, DG, REB
Global Overview of School Feeding - Daniel Balaban, Director, Centre of
Introduction of “Homegrown School Excellence Against Hunger, WFP Brazil
Feeding” – 15 mins
Homegrown school feeding: Linking Rachel Sabates Wheeler, Social
education, health, nutrition, social Protection Specialist, UNICEF Rwanda
protection, and agriculture – 20 mins
09:00 School Feeding in Rwanda: Context Sylvie, Cross-Cutting Issues, MINEDUC
and background – 15 mins
Analytical work – The Investment Ryan Anderson, Programme Officer, WFP
Case and Cost Analysis – 15 mins Rwanda
The Vision: Government of Rwanda
Proposed School Feeding Erasme Rwanamiza, DG MINEDUC
Programme Design – 15 mins
Q&A/Discussion – 30 mins
10:50 Coffee/tea Break
Panel: Moderator: Ernest Ruzindaza,
PS MINAGRI
The Brazilian Zero Hunger Strategy
and an Introduction to the Centre of Daniel Balaban, Director, WFP Centre of
Excellence Against Hunger – trilateral Excellence Against Hunger
cooperation on school feeding – 20
mins
11:20 The importance of school feeding: Andrea Galante, FNDE, Government of
evidence from Brazil – 20 mins Brazil
Example of trilateral cooperation in Cecília Prado, Brazilian Cooperation
Africa – piloting school feeding Agency &
models in Mozambique – 20 mins Cristina Murphy, Programme Advisor,
WFP Centre of Excellence Against
Hunger
Q&A Discussion – 30 mins
12:50 Lunch
Group Work: Considering Options in Rwanda - Action Planning
Panel: Moderator: Paul Masterjerb, MC
The five pillars of school feeding: Erasme Rwanamiza, DG MINEDUC,
Rwanda study tour highlights and Norbert Sendege, DG MINAGRI &
draft action plan – 15 mins Christiani Buani, Programme Officer, WFP
14:00
Centre of Excellence Against Hunger
Introduction to Group Work
Coffee/tea is available during group Roving facilitators and group moderators
work
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2. Group Work:
Group work to be designed around the five pillars of school feeding: 1)Legal and
14:30
Policy Frameworks, 2) Financing Mechanism, 3) Institutional Arrangements, 4)
Programme Design and Implementation, and 5) Community Participation
17:30 Closing of day 1 MC
18:00 Cocktail Reception – knowledge fair.
DAY 2: CHARTING THE WAY FORWARD
Time Activity Note
08:30 Recap of conclusions of day one and Paul Masterjerb, MC
introduction of day two
Presentation of Day 1 Deliberations and Action Plan Recommendations
Moderated by: Panel
• REB (Chair)
• MINAGRI
Group Presentations • MINALOC
08:45 • Christiani Buani, Programme Officer, WFP
Centre of Excellence Against Hunger
• Tiina Honkanen, Policy Officer, WFP HQ
Presentation:
• Group 1 Group 1
09:20 Discussion/Q&A
Presentation:
09:50
• Group 2 Group 2
10:25 Discussion/Q&A
10:55 Coffee/tea break
Presentation:
11:30
• Group 3* Group 3
12:00 Discussion/Q&A
12:30 Recap of recommendations/decisions. Government of Rwanda and Development
Partners
12:45 Closing remarks Daniel Balaban, WFP Centre of Excellence
Against Hunger
Vincent Biruta, Minster of Education,
Rwanda
13:00 Lunch
*Contingency plans: Should discussions run longer than envisaged, the coffee break will
be cancelled. Alternatively, if they should run even longer, the option to have Group 3
after lunch will be retained.
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