Assessment of School Feeding Program Implementation Among Selected Primary Schools of Addis Ketema Sub-city ,
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2022-11
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Addis Ababa University
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Ethiopia has made important development gains over the past two decades, reducing poverty and expanding investments in basic social services. However, food insecurity and under-nutrition still hinder economic growth. When a school meals program is part of a package of investments in education like free education for primary students, it shows a positive impact in both school participation (enrolment, attendance & completion) and learning. After making a discussion with the feeding program implementers in some primary schools, it is encountered and observed to know some problems during implementation of feeding program. Therefore, this research tried to assess feeding program implementation in the selected primary School of Addis Ketema Sub- City from April 1-15/2022 with the intention of addressing the major research questions. This study followed a descriptive research design to collect quantitative and qualitative information on program implementation process and its Problems. The target populations in this study were all program implementers at the selected schools and SFP representative personnel in the Sub-City Office. After development of structured opened and closed questionnaire, the data was collected from SFP committee members, caterers and school principals that work in 10 schools and representative personnel in the Sub-City Office. After collections, the quantitative data was coded, and cleaned, and verified by the researcher. Afterward the researcher used descriptive statistics on the study variables including frequencies, percentages, and tables to describe the characteristics of the study variables. In the present study it was found that ( 82%) of committee members from 10 primary schools did not take training to implement the school feeding program. The response from the caterers gives some hope that almost all of them, 100% got those trainings on food preparation & cooking and 43( 72%) and 57(95%) of caterers did not take training on kitchen management& hygiene and business management respectively. The insufficiency of the assigned budget per meal, high cost and shortage of ingredients caused financial challenges on the feeding program. Low percentage of training opportunity for committee members ,the money for meal is not adequate and there is no alternative source of finance for SFP. This study recommends for schools to find alternative source of finance, strengthening of coordination among stakeholders.
Key: SFP, implementation, Primary schools, Caterers, committee members
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SFP, implementation, Primary schools, Caterers, committee members