THE EFFECT OF SCHOOL FEEDING PROGEAMME ON PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN IN PUBLIC- PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN SELECTED LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREAS OF KANO STATE, NIGERIA (2014-2021)

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dc.contributor.authorIDRIS, Musa
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-06T11:10:38Z
dc.date.available2025-01-06T11:10:38Z
dc.date.issued2023-07
dc.descriptionPublic Administration, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria
dc.description.abstractIn recent years, School Feeding Programme (SFP) has been one of the dominant social intervention scheme in the education sector. It is used particularly but not exclusively to mitigate food insecure but also educationally backward societies, to address the problem of hunger and child malnutrition among school children. Also, it increases the rate of primary school completion. In Kano State alone, Nigerian government spends N1.5bn every month in feeding 1,225,804 primary school 1-3 pupils across 5,200 schools. However, four years into the programme, Kano State still has the largest number of out-of-school children. The dominant explanation for this is the increase in hunger and child malnutrition occasioned by widespread poverty in the state. This study therefore, seeks to investigate the effect of SFP on pupils'completion of primary 1-3 in public primary schools in Kano State. Previous studies relied heavily on opinions of stakeholders and hence have been unable to objectively uncover the effect of SFP on primary school completion. The study solicited opinions and also obtain statistical data on primary 1-3 people completion of their schooling from the primary schools under study. The study found that the school meals, although deteriorating in quality and quantity due to inflation and diversion of the food meant for school peoples, considerably increased in the rate of primary 1-3 completion in Kano State. However, the paper found out that the time for distributing food often conflict with the time for lessons. The study recommended that the quantity and quality of the food should be improved to sustain the current increase in school completion rate. To do this, the N70 budget for feeding a child should be increased and officials diverting the food be punished strictly. The federal or state government should simplify the mode of sharing the food and make it time-specific so that it doesn't conflict with time for lesson. This can be done by extending the time for short break from 10 to 20 minutes and same for eating the food.
dc.identifier.urihttps://kubanni.abu.edu.ng/handle/123456789/13079
dc.language.isoen
dc.titleTHE EFFECT OF SCHOOL FEEDING PROGEAMME ON PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN IN PUBLIC- PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN SELECTED LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREAS OF KANO STATE, NIGERIA (2014-2021)
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