The Nigerian Home Grown School Feeding Programme, on Thursday, got a boost with a partnership between the Federal Government and the Partnership for Child Development, Imperial College, London.
President Bola Tinubu, on January 12, suspended all programmes of the National Social Investment Programme Agency for six weeks.
The four programmes administered by NSIPA are N- Power Programme, Conditional Cash Transfer Programme, Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme, and Home Grown School Feeding Programme.
A statement by the Director of Information, Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Segun Imohiosen, said the suspension was based on the investigation of alleged malfeasance in the management of the agency and its programmes.
But Yetunde Adeniji, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on the Home Grown School Feeding Programme, who spoke at a stakeholders’ workshop in Abuja, said the partnership with the international organisations on the school feeding scheme was part of Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Action plans.
Adeniji said that the workshop was to launch the Value for Money Study, which seeks to estimate the cost of the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme, to reflect on its multi-sectoral benefits and its impact on socio-economic, as well as human capital development of the country.
She noted that the objective of the study was also to determine the effectiveness of the school feeding programme in improving students’ attendance and academic performance, in other words, she said it was a comparative analysis of the benefits of investing in school feeding, versus other education interventions.
