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Standard Project Report 2016
been integrated in the Executive Office of the President.
Building on WFP's experience, the Government of Indonesia decided to scale up school meals to 38,500 students
in four districts in 2016, and three additional districts in Papua elected to continue providing school meals using their
own funds after WFP phased out its support. Further, based on WFP's successful implementation of the local
food-based school meal (LFBSM) prototype pilot in the Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT) and Papua Provinces, WFP
was approached by the Ministry of Education and Culture to help revitalise the national school meal programme.
WFP has been involved in the design and formulation of operational guidelines, training modules and monitoring
instruments. The cash transfer modality that WFP used in the pilot was also adopted by the Government.
WFP began cooperation with the Ministry of Social Affairs to improve the nutritional impact of national social
protection schemes and ensure robust supply chains and monitoring. The Presidential De