It is expected to reach about 300 public servants of the national education system.
Asunción, June 14, 2023 – On Thursday, June 15, education professionals will start the virtual course School Feeding: Strategy for a Healthy Life, within the framework of the project Consolidation of School Feeding Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean, of the Brazil-FAO International Cooperation Program. The launch will take place at 11 am, in the Guaraní Hall, of the Ministry of Education and Sciences (MEC), with the presence of Minister Nicolás Zárate, other authorities and MEC officials.
Nearly 300 professionals will participate in the course, including departmental education directors, education directorates, pedagogical technical support supervisors, general directorates of the central administration of the MEC, directors of educational institutions, and the inter-institutional technical team for school feeding.
The objective of the course is to strengthen the capacities of the managers of the educational system of the different instances in relation to the management of the School Feeding Program of Paraguay (PAEP) and its application in different contexts within the framework of the guarantee of the right to food and the improvement of food and nutrition security.
The training will last 9 weeks and a load of 62 hours/class, distributed in synchronous classes (4 hours per week), asynchronous tasks (2 hours per week), a hybrid seminar (4 hours) and a final project ( 8 hours).
The topics of the training modules are: Right to food, sovereignty and food and nutrition security; Food policies in Paraguay and Food and nutrition education.
The Consolidation of School Feeding Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean project promoted by the course is an initiative carried out jointly by the Brazilian Cooperation Agency of the Ministry of External Relations (ABC/MRE), the National Fund for Educational Development of the Ministry of Education (FNDE/MEC) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). It integrates the actions of the Brazil-FAO International Cooperation Program.
In 2023, the Brazil-FAO Cooperation is supporting teacher training in 11 countries, taking as reference the methodological experience known as Sustainable Schools, which has food and nutrition education actions as one of the six components.
In addition, it is supporting the countries in the development of initiatives that can promote the necessary advances in school feeding programs such as internal missions, face-to-face events, exchanges of experiences, studies or surveys, publications, training, among others.
