Across the world, countries have been working to mitigate the challenge of child malnutrition and classroom hunger by designing and implementing home-grown school feeding programmes. Though beneficial, these programmes come with their own challenges, mainly around funding issues, logistics and infrastructure limitations and monitoring and evaluation complexities.

While governments generally seek to address these issues domestically through policy formulation, technology and collective efforts, there is one avenue that is yet to be fully explored - international collaboration. When malnutrition is a problem of global significance, partnerships at the international level help make a difference by ensuring their continuity, adding to the efficiency and amplifying the impact.

Strategic collaborations at the global level will facilitate the pooling of financial and technical resources, reducing the burden on individual governments and ensuring the sustainability of school meal programmes. These collaborations also encourage improvement and innovation by leveraging technology through collective efforts to enhance the programme.

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