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Be transparent with funds allocated for school feeding- Sector Minister urges administrators

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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.

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