Ulaanbaatar
Education Ministry and JICA to cooperate to support school food manufacturing and services
Society
Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ On May 12, a document of the project
towards supporting school food manufacturing and services was signed by Head of
the Department of Primary and Secondary Education of the Ministry of Education
and Science T.Nyam-Ochir and Chief Representative of the Japan International
Cooperation Agency (JICA) Mongolia Office E.Tamura.
The signing of the project document enabled the JICA and the
Ministry of Education and Science to cooperate in creating the food supply
system that meets the local features, developing capacity building training
program and establishing a training center.
With the aim of serving school children with safe and
nutritious lunch at the general education school, the project will be carried out
in 2021-2024 through the selection of schools and soums of Dundgobi and
Uvurkhangai aimags.
Officials believe that the project will be effective to
sustainably develop food manufacturing, which will bring positive impact on
child’s physical growth and development, and to strengthen cooperation and
coherence between professional and implementing agencies on food
consumption.
A law on school food manufacturing and services will come
into effect from September 1; therefore, it is necessary to resolve financing
within four packages of issues related to school lunchroom standards, provision
of required equipment, professional personnel training as well as the increase in
food cost per student
Within this framework, the sides agreed to partner in
creating food supply system as well as preparing and upskilling human resource.
