The Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Mrs. Cynthia Morrison has charged school feeding administrators to be transparent in their handling of the funds allocated to them.
She noted that the initiative is an investment for the Ghanaian children and her ministry will continue to scrutinized their activities to the benefit of the Ghanaian child.
Mrs. Morrison made this known at a days sensitization workshop for school feeding administrators, Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs’), which focused on cost benefit analysis report on the program in Cape coast.
As part of efforts to share findings of the cost benefit of the School Feeding Program in Ghana, the Ministry of Gender, Children & Social Protection in collaboration with the World Food Program (through the Ghana School Feeding Programme – GSFP) have organised a workshop for the Dissemination of Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) on the @Ghana School Feeding Programme at the Cape Coast RCC on Monday, August 19, 2019.
The objective of the workshop was to share the findings of the CBA on GSFP and to provide a platform for deliberations on the Draft Bill for GSFP with wider stakeholders through a 3-belt regional dissemination and also enhance further communication on the benefits of the GSFP which will facilitate passage of the bill into law to provide avenues of sustained funds to support the increment of the feeding grant from GH₵ 1.00 to GH₵ 1.50p.
The Dissemination of the Cost Benefit Analysis is to generate evidence for advocacy for increased investment in School Feeding in Ghana as part of some recommendations by stakeholders in school feeding which happened during the National Dissemination and Advocacy workshop on the outcomes of the nutritional survey of the School Feeding Programme conducted by GSFP, WFP AND PCD in December 2017.
The Cost Benefit Analysis for School Children is a procedure developed by World Food Program and the Boston Consulting Group in consultation with the World Bank in 2011 and this was reviewed in 2016-2017.
