4Assist has been awarded three contracts since September 2021. We have successfully completed the first two contracts: one in Cambodia, entitled “public Financial Management Support for the establishment for national home-grown School Feeding Programme in Cambodia”; and a second one “support in Public Financial Management, Design of the Regional Transition Framework for School Feeding Programmes and support to Country Offices in Asia and the Pacific”.

We now have the pleasure to collaborate once again with the United Nations World Food Programme, Regional Bureau for South East Asia in Bangkok (WFP RBB). The requested services in this third contract, include supporting the WFP staff in the transition process of handing the WFP-funded School Feeding Programmes over to partner governments. This will require assessing financial and institutional capacity needed by the target countries to enable nationally-owned and sustainable School Feeding.

The overarching objective is to support both regional and country WFP offices staff in engaging more effectively with national stakeholders in line with the transition strategy. The WFP staff will be expected to help improve the Financial Capacity and Institutional Capacity and Coordination of School Feeding Programmes and enable the national actors to take over the programmes in a sustainable manner. The utmost goal of these programmes is to provide a free meal on every school day, improving nutrition, promoting school enrolment and school attendance.