The Brazilian National School Feeding Program - NSFP

Mrs. Cássia Augusta Amaral buaniNSFP

NSFP is the oldest social Federal Government program on feeding and nutrition area and the largest program worldwide with universal attendance.

Contextualization of the NSFP

Contextualization of the NSFP• 1950-80`s: agreements with USAID, UNICEF, WFP = food

donation; Federal Government centralized management of the NSFP.

• 1988: democratic Brazil’s Federal Constitution = school feeding as a State’s duty:

Art. 208: The duty of the State towards education shall be fulfilled by ensuring the following:

vii – assistance to students in all grades of basic education, by means of supplementary programmes providing school materials, transportation, food, and health care.

• 1993/94: States and Municipalities as part on the management of the NSFP; End of international food donation.

Brazil Political and Administrative Organization

Population: 190 millions of inhabitants; Territorial Extension: 8.5 millions of square km; Federative Republic of Brazil: 26 states + Federal District + 5564 municipalities = all of them are federated entities; Public policies: responsibility of execution shared by Federal, state and municipal governments; All the entities collect its own taxes, but there are transfer of financial resources from each state to its municipalities and from Federal government to states and municipalities.

Brazilian Public Educational System

Municipal State Federal

Basic Education

The Federal Government sets the national policy of education;

Each federated entity manages the schools under its responsibility, including professionals hiring (principals, academic advisors, teachers, cooks, cleaning staff, etc.). They are obliged, by The Constitution, to invest, at least, 25% of taxes in Education;

The Federal Government also establishes the minimun amount of money per student which must be invested by municipal and state governments. There is the Fund for the Basic Education Development in order to complement this amount for those governments which could not reach the minimun with its own money.

The Federal Government sets the national policy of education;

Each federated entity manages the schools under its responsibility, including professionals hiring (principals, academic advisors, teachers, cooks, cleaning staff, etc.). They are obliged, by The Constitution, to invest, at least, 25% of taxes in Education;

The Federal Government also establishes the minimun amount of money per student which must be invested by municipal and state governments. There is the Fund for the Basic Education Development in order to complement this amount for those governments which could not reach the minimun with its own money.

Higher Education

Legal Framework

• 2009: Federal Law n.º 11.947. Achievements in NSFP:

School Feeding as a State Policy; The increase in the attendance covering High School

and Education for Young and Adults; Strengthening community participation in the social

control of the Federative agents developed actions; The assurance of acquisition of at least 30% of products

coming from household agriculture.

NSFP Axels

Law n.º 11.947/09: NSFP two main axels

Nutritional and Food EducationNutritional and Food Education

NSFPNSFP

Food SupplyFood Supply

acquisition preparation distribution

training projects research

... focusing on...

Guaranteeing the Right to

Adequate Food during the

school year

Contribute to learning,

improving school

performance and quality of

basic education

NSFP OBJECTIVES

Principles Principles Coverage/ActionCoverage/ActionUniversality 44.000.000 students

Continuity 200 school days

Fairness Infirmities

Decentralization Executing entities

Social Control School Feeding Council

Right to school feeding Offer of meals Educational activities

PNAE´s PRINCIPLESPNAE´s PRINCIPLES

Intersectorial Cooperation

Food and Nutritional Security

HEALTHHEALTH EDUCATIONEDUCATION

NSFPNSFP

ENVIRONMENTAGRICULTURE

Governmental Intersectoriality

Food and NutritionalSecurity - NSFP

Ministry of Health

Ministry of Health

Ministry of AgricultureMinistry of Agriculture

Ministry of Fishery

Ministry of Fishery

Ministry of EducationMinistry of EducationMinistry of

Foreign Affairs

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Ministry ofAgrarian

Development

Ministry ofSocial

Development

Ministry ofPlanning and

Finance

NSFP Execution

Mayors State Government

State SchoolsMunicipal Schools

Federal Government

Federal Schools

or

Rendering account Rendering account

ExecutoryEntities

NUMBER OF SCHOOLS AND STUDENTS THAT BENEFITED WITH NSFP

Total students and schools benefited by modality of teaching level

Genre Schools Students

Nurseries 2012 – U$ 0,50 33.809 1.801.456

Young and Adult (EJA) 2012 – U$ 0,15 36.348 3.485.524

Basic Education 2012 – U$ 0,15 123.071 26.207.891

Indigenous 2012 – U$ 0,26 2.988 232.662

Medium 2012 – U$ 0,15 19.517 7.816.053

Pre School 2012 – U$ 0,25 82.253 3.694.902

Maroon 2012 –U$ 0,26 1.977 211.517

More Education 2012 – U$ 0,45 32.000 4.843.342

Total Brasil 162.890 43.450.258

R$ 3.500.000.000,00

Source: SIGAE and FNDE systems, 2012

NSFP Execution

NSFP Technical Responsible: Nutritionist

Menu Elaboration

Menu Elaboration

Students Nutritional Evaluation

Students Nutritional Evaluation

Food and Nutrition Education

Food and Nutrition Education

PurchasingPublic

Call

Hygiene andSanitaryControl

Projects and

Research

States and municipalities musthire nutritionists according to the number of students.

Human ResourcesFormation

NSFP Principles and Guidelines

Quantity:

Nutrition References: Annex III

20%1 meal

30%1 meal

Maroon & Indigenous

70%Full Time

Qualitative

Differentiation of per capita food

by modality

Variety, balance

Food groups

Food groups sanitary Control

Culture and eating habits

School Feeding Menu

30%2 or more

meals, part time

Dietary restrictions

SOME FACTS...

- Restrict the purchase of foods with high amounts of saturated fats, sodium and sugar;

- Prohibition on acquisition of soft drinks, artificial (high amount of sugars and dyes), the constraint embedded foods, canned, ready to eat foods;

- Prohibition on acquisition of soft drinks, artificial (high amount of sugars and dyes), the constraint embedded foods, canned, ready to eat foods;

- Mandatory offer of 3 servings of fruits and vegetables (200g/student/week);

- Implementation of educational gardens in schools.

SOME ACTS ...

www.educandocomahorta.org.br

Guidance Manuals Household Agriculture and the NSFP in partnership

with the MDA

•CECANES will give training to approximately 5800 NSFP actors, among them, the school feeding counselors, nutritionists, farmers, cooks and education workers

•In 2012 instructional materials shown below were developed by the FNDE, in partnership with Cecanes,, which will be distributed to public and private schools.

Collaborating Center of School Food and NutritionCECANE

Guiding Manuals in partnership with

Cecanes MANUAL

Test Acceptability

Guidance on methodologies

Res. CD/FNDE 38/2009

GUIDELINES MANUAL:- Role of the nutritionist- Students with diabetes, hypertension, celiac disease, phenylketonuria, lactose intolerance.School feeding in the different stages of education

Cookbook: Healthy Eating on Regional Cuisine.

NSFP Execution

SFC Composition – 7 members 2: education – teachers, students, other school workers; 2: students parents; 2: civil society – church, rural union, neighborhood association, others; 1: local government representative

EACH STATE AND MUNICIPALITY MUST CONSTITUTE THE SFC, AS A CONDITION TO RECEIVE THE FEDERAL RESOURCES TO NSFP!

SFC Composition – 7 members 2: education – teachers, students, other school workers; 2: students parents; 2: civil society – church, rural union, neighborhood association, others; 1: local government representative

EACH STATE AND MUNICIPALITY MUST CONSTITUTE THE SFC, AS A CONDITION TO RECEIVE THE FEDERAL RESOURCES TO NSFP!

SFC: responsible to accompany and supervise the financial resources apllication for school feeding;

SFC: emit a conclusive opinion document approving or not the program execution.

FNDE, The Federal Tribunal Accounts and The Federal Secretariant of Internal Control are responsible to supervise the execution of NSFP by Executory Entities.

NSFP Social Control: School Feeding Council – SFC

NSFP Execution

About 60% of all food consumed in Brazil come from Household Agriculture;

About 84% of rural properties are from Household Agriculture, but it represents only 24% of the agriculture area;

Public Policies to strength Household Agriculture and improve life conditions of family farmers: PRONAF, PAA and NSFP.

NSFP and Household Agriculture

Guarantee by law a minimum 30% purchase of products from family agriculture products;

Work together with government and civil society to train farmers to comply with the new legislation;

Increase communication between nutritionists and local family farmers;

Develop the local production.

NSFP and Household Agriculture

Guarantee by law a minimum 30% purchase of products from family agriculture products;

Work together with government and civil society to train farmers to comply with the new legislation;

Increase communication between nutritionists and local family farmers;

Develop the local production.

NSFP and the Household Agriculture:

ARTICLE 18 OF RESOLUTION Nº 38

Managing Committee of Law

11.947/2009 – Adm. Rule 450/2010 Consulting group ;

14 institutions of the organized civil

society

Representatives of Federal Government: FNDE, MDA, MDS, CONAB & MPA

FAMILY FARMING

At least 30% of all financial resources transferred from the FNDE to the school feeding program, shall be used for direct purchase of the products from family farmers

and rural family entrepreneurs;

ESTRATEGIC ACTIONS ESTRATEGIC ACTIONS

§ 1º – Exempt of the public bidding

Art. 19 – The acquisition of food Art. 19 – The acquisition of food shall:shall:

• IIII - be - be diversified diversified and produced in local, and produced in local, regional, territorial, estate and national ambit, regional, territorial, estate and national ambit, in in the following orderthe following order; ;

• IIIIII – prioritize products from the year´s – prioritize products from the year´s crop crop of of the year of delivery the year of delivery to the school; to the school;

• IVIV – to be subdivided in as many parcels as – to be subdivided in as many parcels as necessary considering necessary considering seasonality seasonality and the and the family farming family farming peculiarities peculiarities ;;

Public Call Definition

Public Call is an administrative process, focused specifically on selecting proposals of Family Farmers, dispensing the need of the formal bidding process, as long as the prices are compatible with the ones currently on the market.

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Who Sells Who Sells

Formal Group Family Farmers

Cooperative or association with Business DAP

Informal GroupGroup of family

farmers with Personal DAP

Executing Entity

Executing Entity

State Education Secretariat, City Adm.

Schools.

Articulating Entity Articulating Entity SIBRATER or STR or SINTRAF or entities credited by the MDA to issue the DAP

Who Buys Who Buys

Purchase and Sale Process

Basics How to do the public call?

Define the Define the objectobject to be purchased (food to be purchased (food products);products);

Estimate Estimate total valuetotal value of the products to be of the products to be selected, thru market surveys;selected, thru market surveys;

Verify if the budget Verify if the budget resources prediction resources prediction (PNAE (PNAE + own resources) used to pay the expenses and if + own resources) used to pay the expenses and if it complies with the Law LRF;it complies with the Law LRF;

Refer to Law 8.666/93, Art. 15, § 7º, Item III and Resolution 38/2009, Art. 14 § 1, Art. 25, §1º e § 2º.

1. Budget

2. Articulation of role players

4. Definition of reference prices

6. Sales Project

5. Elaboration of the Public Call

7. Sample for Quality Control

8. Selection of the Sales Project

9. Acquisition Contract

10. Receiving Term Step by Step of thepurchase of Familyfarming products

for the School feeding

Program

3. Elaboration of the menu

Family Farming and the NSFP

• In 2010, 52% of states and municipalities are making the purchase of family farming.

• Without Purchase: 22.74% • Greater than 30%: 32.10% • Greater than or equal to 30%: 15.97% • NI: 29,79%

Fonte: Cecane Uns – Análise PC/DAS (2010)

SIM-PNAE Monitoring System NSFP

Number of municipalities with SIM PNAE deployed

Ano Nº de Municípios

2009 319

2010 652

2011 410

Total Brasil 1.381

• Computerized tool that assists in monitoring the food offered in state and municipal schools located in various regions of the country.

INTERNACIONAL COOPERATION

•FAO.

Signed in 2008 between the FNDE and FAO, the Memorandum of Understanding that initiated the project actions GCP/RLA/180/BRA - "Strengthening of School Feeding Programs in the framework Latin America Initiative without Hunger 2025".Its execution reaches 8 countries: Bolivia, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay and Peru.

•WFP

Consolidate strategies to build capacity for sustainable implementation of School Feeding Programs through training of professionals from various countries, international cooperation and the development of social technologies to support program implementation. Timor leste, Haiti, Mali, Guine Bissau, Malawi, Rwanda, Níger, Guinea Conakry, México, Gana, Haiti, Senegal, Congo, Bangladesh

NSFP – General Coordination Contact

• General Coordinator: Albaneide Peixinho• Phones: + 55 61 2022-5666/5667• Fax: + 55 61 2022-4405• E-mail: gepae@fnde.gov.br• Internet: www.fnde.gov.br

Cássia A. a. BuaniCoordination of Monitoring and NSFP Control Support

cassia.amaral@fnde.gov.br