Homba Idal DALIWA is a school feeding specialist with over 15 years of experience across UN, government and NGO sectors. Her expertise includes programme and policy design, implementation, M&E, government capacity strengthening, community development, logistics and procurement.
Homba coordinated the national school feeding programme for WFP Guinea, working closely with the Ministry of Education to manage the food pipeline, budgets, donor reporting and fundraising. In this role, she also led the SABER assessment on school feeding. She has additionally coordinated a World Bank safety nets project for school feeding and a USAID Food for Peace school meals project during the Ebola outbreak.
She played a key role in supporting the Guinean Government to establish the National Directorate of School Canteens (DNCaS) and, as a consultant, helped strengthen its capacity for national ownership of a sustainable Home-Grown School Feeding program. In addition, she is a gender advocate and served as NGO Executive Director.
Homba is a passionate school feeding practitioner, strongly committed to helping communities become protagonists of their own well-being, both individually and collectively.