General News of Friday, 8 October 2021Source: 3news.comThe Programmes Manager at the Foundation for Security and Development in Africa (FOSDA), a civil society organisation with the mission to promote peace and human security, Theodora Williams Anti, has said that expansion of the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP) to benefit more pupils in Ghana is crucial. “To prove that expansion to the JHS is crucial, it will be recalled that the last time government gave approval to expand the programme was in July 2016 and it targeted 3 million school children. “Three (3) months ago, FOSDA commissioned a study into the GSFP and progressive effects at the JHS level, with comparative analysis of two other African Countries i.e Mozambique and South Africa. Our findings suggest that the absence of the GSFP at the JHS level is equally accounting for dropout rates in the country. Within the same time period, average completion rate for JHS was 76.8% at national and 63% at the sub-national levels.

Source: GhanaWeb October 08, 2021 13:52 UTC