The Federal Government of Nigeria and the Partnership for Child Development, Imperial College, London, on Thursday, strengthened their collaboration to support the Nigerian Home Grown School Feeding Program.
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on the Home Grown School Feeding Programme, Yetunde Adeniji, spoke at the stakeholders workshop in Abuja, stating the partnership on the school feeding scheme was part of Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Action plans.
The purpose of the workshop was to introduce the Value for Money Study aim to calculate the National Home School Feeding Program’s cost and consider its multi-sectoral advantages as well as effects on the nation’s socioeconomic and human capital development.
This research, which is entirely funded by Imperial College, aims to raise the standard of school lunches in the states. Knowing the problems, metrics, and difficulties the program has faced in the past will aid in its evaluation and our overseas partners will benefit from this research or program as well.
The study will be launched in Kaduna and Osun state first before extending to other 36 states by the end of the year as data will be collected through primary and secondary sources before it would be analysed forensically by experts led by Prof. Lesley Drake of PCD Imperial College, London.
The research will be bring transparency and accountability, and it will benefit some of the youth in those state if appointed to be part of the research.
Other partners involve in the programme are, Harvard University, London, Agriculture, Budget and Economic Planning, the Federal Ministries of Humanitarian Affairs, Education, Health, and the Universal Basic Education Commission, among others.
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