To enable useful comparison, FSNSP will adapt the study design used by World Food Programme to evaluate a similar school feeding intervention undertaken in chronically food insecure areas in rural Bangladesh during the period 2002-04. The baseline study will be conducted using a cluster randomized study design in which schools represent clusters. Seven schools will be randomly selected from each of 7 Upazilas out of 10 that have been selected for intervention. A control group will be included in study design consisting of 7 schools selected randomly from 7 comparable yet adjacent Upazilas not slated for inclusion in the feeding programme. Control groups will share the same socio-economic, geographic background characteristics of adjacent intervention schools, but are located in Upazilas that have not been selected by GoB to be part of the pilot School Feeding Programme. Use of a control group will enable later evaluations to attribute possible improvements in key impact/outcome variables to the intervention itself. A mid-term followup and endline study will be conducted on the same children approximately 6 months and 10-12 months following baseline. The precise timing of follow-up will be a function of when biscuit distribution is initiated, and seasonal period. Care will be taken to capture the same season as the baseline (to control for seasonal availability of fruits and vegetables), and to ensure that follow-up occurs before the Ramadan period when normal food consumption patterns are disrupted.