Name: Stakeholder Engagement Workshop - Ghana School Feeding Program
Start: 2024-10-18T11:30:00+00:00
End: 2024-10-18T15:30:00+00:00
Location: YOTA - Youth Opportunity and Transformation in Africa

Stakeholder Engagement Workshop - Ghana School Feeding Program

Convening thought partners & leaders to instigate policy dialogues & actionable solutions to transform the state of school meals in Ghana
About this Event
<h4>School meals programs have proven to be successful in various regions for improving child nutrition, and educational outcomes. These programs have also positively impacted local economies by creating jobs, generating income, and fostering market opportunities for farmers. In some countries, school meals have even contributed to gender equality and advancements in agricultural processing.</h4>

<h4>The Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP), is no exception, has the potential to contribute to the national social protection agenda in these ways. The goal of the School Feeding Policy is to deliver a well-organized, decentralized intervention providing disadvantaged school children with nutritionally adequate, locally produced food thereby reducing poverty through improved household incomes and effective local economic Development. The effectiveness of these programs has been undermined by various challenges including irregular sustainable financing in relation to caterer payment, prevalent strikes among caterers, deviation of nutritious school meal menus, and operational inefficiencies.</h4>

<h4>The co-objective of the stakeholder workshop is to convene diverse expertises interested in alleviating child food poverty, promote youth participation in school meal advocacy, and instigate policy dialougues and develop actionable recommendation to transform our flagship school meals.</h4>