Linking women-led community kitchens to school food programmes: lessons learned from the Healthy Kitchens, Healthy Children intervention in Palestinian refugees in Lebanon.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Decades of marginalization have led Palestinian refugees living in Lebanon to experience multigenerational poverty and food insecurity. The Healthy Kitchens, Healthy Children programme implemented and examined the impact of a two-pronged intervention that employed women through community kitchens to deliver a subsidized healthy daily school snack to elementary-school children in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon. We describe the rationale, study design, theorized impact pathways, and discuss lessons learned.

Design

The programme was quasi-experimental. We conducted formative and process evaluation of both components of the intervention to elucidate the pathways to programme impact.

Setting

Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon.

Participants

Thirty-t

SUBMITTER: Ghattas H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10200532 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature