Counterpart International implemented two USDA funded projects in Saint Louis, Senegal: the McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition project (McGovern-Dole) and the Local and Regional Food Aid procurement project (LRP). Both projects supported the overarching goal of ensuring that School Management Committees can serve as a sustainable pathway to Community Led School Feeding, even after support from McGovern-Dole comes to an end. Through LRP, Counterpart ensured the sustainability of the McGovern-Dole supported schools through a graduation strategy which  incorporated the local procurement of millet and cowpeas. The program worked to:

• Increase the capacity of schools and the government to effectively procure local commodities to supply school feeding programs
• Strengthen producer Groups’ ability to provide high quality, nutritious commodities and connect them to school feeding programs
• Improve nutrition of students by increasing access to and use of various high quality, nutritious, and culturally appropriate foods in school meal
• Procure cowpea and millet, and support the ability of the local community to produce orange flesh sweet potatoes and mung beans for purchase by schools as a part of providing balanced school meals