Pillar 2: Promote competitiveness to favor economic growth and employment creation
273. In the area of food security, the following objectives are considered:
To improve the access to food and to basic social services by vulnerable groups and zones in the rural and urban areas.
To promote sanitary security and the quality of food and water, with a view to protect the public and the consumer, by promoting food and nutritional information and education of the population. Measures should be implemented aiming at the hygiene, the improvement of the food diet and the nutritional well being of the population, especially the most vulnerable.
Pillar 3: Develop and upgrade human capital
281. From the poverty reduction perspective, the actions to be developed shall be oriented toward:
The training and recycling of infancy educators as well as the progressive expansion of school lunch programs to the pre-school (about 50% of pre-schools);
Resuming total coverage of the lunch program in Basic Education and progressive extension to the pre-schools; create a new tuition support program for needy students in the secondary; training and development of actions in the context of pre-school health.