Solicitation of Input from Stakeholders on the priority country selection under the McGovern-Dole International Food for Education Program

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS), is soliciting input from stakeholders on the priority country selection under the McGovern-Dole International Food for Education Program. The program aims to reduce hunger and improve literacy and primary education, especially for girls, by providing school meals, teacher training, and related support. The input provided will be used to inform the country priority selection process. Stakeholders are asked to provide comments on the following questions: • The alignment of McGovern-Dole's annual priority countries with the program's legislation and goals • Facets of governance that help or hinder the implementation of a school feeding program • Factors that influence the possibility of successfully graduating a holistic school feeding program • The timeline to graduate a school feeding program from external donor support • Aspects of an exit strategy for a school feeding project that are most successful in reducing program dependency • Additional comments or recommendations on the annual priority country selection process