School feeding programmes provide a crucial safety net that supports vulnerable children and ensures that every child has access to education, health and nutrition. The massive impact of school closures due to COVID-19 has reduced access to school meals programmes, often the only nutritious meal many children received, increasing the risk of child malnutrition in the short and long term. School feeding programmes can become an essential coping and mitigation solution to the nutritional loss children may face, especially during the crisis.

This webinar will delve deeper into the importance of the school feeding programme, the lessons learned in adapting these interventions to the COVID-19 crisis, their costs and benefits and best practice examples in home-grown school feeding programmes.