The Nigerian Home Grown School Feeding Programme has got a boost with a partnership between the federal government and the Partnership for Child Development (PCD), Imperial College, London.
The senior special assistant to the president on the home-grown school feeding programme, Dr. Yetunde Adeniji, disclosed this at a workshop in Abuja.
Adeniji said the initiative was part of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda, saying the workshop was to launch the Value for Money Study and seek to estimate the cost of the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme in order to reflect on its multi-sectoral benefits and its impact on socio economic as well as human capital development of the country.
The aide also stated that the objective of the study was to determine the effectiveness of the school feeding programme in improving student’s attendance and academic performance, pointing out the comparative analysis of the benefits of investing in school feeding and other education interventions in the country.
She revealed that the study would first be launched in Kaduna and Osun states and subsequently extend to the six geopolitical states across the country as well as the entire 36 states at the end of 2024.