In April 2024, the Government of Canada announced a one-billion-dollar commitment over five years for the development of a national school food program.
Currently, Canadian schools are using a range of different approaches to monitor and evaluate programs, such as counting participation, costing, and more. It’s important to engage in consistent and comparable evaluations to show the value of SFPs for children, their families, and the wider community.
This guide offers practical tools and strategies for incorporating evaluation and monitoring into SFPs. These resources make it easier to plan and deliver programs effectively, adapt to emerging challenges, and demonstrate success over time. This guide presents a set of tracking tools and definitions that can be used across all jurisdictions, offering some common ways to show progress across the country.
This completes a 5-part series of School Food How-To Guides, led by Dr. Rachel Engler-Stringer and the school food research team from the University of Saskatchewan.
- Part 1: School Food Programs in Canada: 15 Promising Cases
- Part 2: Needs Assessment & Community Engagement Guide
- Part 3: Food Literacy Education Guide
- Part 4: Program Operations and Costing Guide
- Part 5: Monitoring, Evaluation and Assessment Guide
