Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Executive Summary -- Chapter 1 Context and Rationale -- Chapter 2 What Is School Feeding? -- The Food -- Complementary Health and Nutrition Interventions -- Other Important Actions -- Chapter 3 Why Implement School Feeding? -- School Feeding as a Safety Net -- The Educational Benefits of School Feeding -- The Nutritional Benefits of School Feeding -- Defining Objectives in Practice: Safety Net, Education, or Nutrition? -- Chapter 4 Planning for Sustainability -- Demand for School Feeding Programs -- How the Costs of School Feeding Relate to the Costs of Education -- The Evolution of National School Feeding Programs -- Key Elements of the School Feeding Program Transition Process -- Linking School Feeding with Local Agricultural Production -- Chapter 5 Trade-Offs in Program Design: Targeting, Feeding Modalities, and Costs -- Approaches to Targeting Programs -- Operational Implications of School Feeding Modalities -- Costs of School Feeding Modalities and Food Choices -- Trade-Offs in Targeting and Feeding Modalities -- Chapter 6 Institutional and Procurement Arrangements -- Institutional Arrangements -- The Role of the Private Sector in School Feeding -- Procurement -- School-Level Implementation Arrangements -- Environmental Concerns at the School Level -- Chapter 7 How to Design and Update School Feeding Programs -- Checklist to Design and Implement New School Feeding Programs -- Checklist to Update Existing School Feeding Programs -- A Designer's Toolkit -- Additional Sources of Useful Information -- Chapter 8 Key Findings and Research Agenda -- Key Findings of the Analyses -- Research Agenda -- Appendix 1 School Feeding in El Salvador: Preliminary Findings of a Case Study of the Transition -- Appendix 2 Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping.

Appendix 3 Setting Up School Feeding Programs -- Appendix 4 Revisiting School Feeding Programs -- References -- Index -- Boxes -- 2.1 Case Studies: School Feeding Programs in Transition Stage 5 -- 3.1 School-Based Deworming: Evolution of an Education Policy Priority -- 3.2 Case Studies: School Feeding Programs in Transition from Stage 2 to Stage 3 -- 4.1 Case Studies: School Feeding Programs in Transition from Stage 4 to Stage 5 -- 5.1 Case Studies: Evaluated Programs Using Fortified Biscuits -- 6.1 Case Studies: School Feeding Programs in Transition from Stage 1 to Stage 2 -- 7.1 World Food Programme Support for School Feeding -- 7.2 Case Study: School Feeding Program in Transition from Stage 3 to Stage 4 -- Figures -- 3.1 Targeting Results from Latin America and the Caribbean: School-Related Social Assistance Programs -- 4.1 Changes in the Costs per Child of School Feeding and Primary Education with Economic Growth (per Capita GDP) for 58 Countries -- 4.2 Ratio of per Child Cost of School Feeding in Relation to per Child Cost of Basic Education, versus GDP per Capita -- 4.3 Yearly Expenditure on School Feeding in El Salvador by Source of Funding, US -- A1.1 School Feeding Transition: Main Milestones of the Process in El Salvador -- A1.2 School Feeding Transition: Steps of the Process in El Salvador -- A1.3 Yearly Expenditure on School Feeding in El Salvador by Source of Funding, US -- A1.4 School Feeding Beneficiaries in El Salvador per Year by Implementing Agency -- Maps -- 1.1 Poverty: Percentage of Population Living in Households with Consumption or Income per Person below the Poverty Line -- 1.2 Hunger: Percentage of Population below the Minimum Level of Dietary Energy Consumption, 2002-05 -- 1.3 Primary School Completion Rate, Total, 2000-06 -- 1.4 School Feeding: Country Programs, 2006-08 -- Tables.

3.1 To What Extent Is School Feeding a Good Safety Net? -- 3.2 An Assessment of the Effect of School Feeding and Complementary Actions on Education Outcomes and Cognitive Abilities -- 4.1 The Transition of School Feeding -- 4.2 Countries in Different Transition Stages with School Feeding in Policy Documents -- 5.1 Comparison of Average Annual Cost per Beneficiary, and per Nutrient Delivery for Fortified Biscuits and On-Site Meals, US -- 5.2 Comparison of Different Item Costs for a School Feeding Program in Panama, US -- 5.3 School Feeding Modalities, Outcomes, Trade-Offs, Costs, and Type of Food -- 6.1 Requirements, Benefits, and Trade-Offs of Different Types of Procurement -- 7.1 Tools Available for School Feeding Design and Implementation.