Educational Outcomes of School Feeding Intervention: Evidence From Rural Northern Ghana

Abstract

The study investigated how policy intervention could have significant impact on beneficiaries. Using quasi-experimental design, 360 pupils from participating and non-participating schools in a feeding program were selected from a rural setting. Instrument for data collection was validated, pre-tested and administered on cross-section of respondents. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test and regression analyses. Findings show that significant differences existed in educational outcomes as participating pupils performed better in core subjects of English Language, Mathematics and Integrated Science. In terms of socioeconomic determinants, findings show that selected variables such as sex of pupils and number of dependents in the family had directly impacted on the performance of pupils. The study also found causal link between the school feeding intervention and others as one of the multiplier effects was not only an increased enrolments by almost a quarter, but reduced dropout and absenteeism rates. This implied that the policy environments was sufficiently pro-poor and effective since it has strengthened the standard of foundational primary school and completion rate envisaged in the educational policy. It is recommended that further policy options that would facilitate the scaling-up of the program in the entire intervention area be formulated.

Effect of the Government School Feeding Policy in Ghana: A Case of Atwima Kwanwoma District in Ashanti Region of Ghana

“…The nation's neediness profile demonstrates that destitution in Ghana is impacted by area, sexual orientation, and instructive level. There are more poor individuals in the north than in the south, a greater number of ladies are poor than men and uneducated people are poorer than the informed (Abayomi & Bukari, 2014;Gelli et al, 2019). Many the issues in Ghana, including the issues of neediness, lack of healthy sustenance and infection, are issues emerging out of numbness.…”

“…Change in Education: Ghana School Feeding Policy has enhanced in the instruction of the recipient schools in light of an expansion in students' enrollment and decrease of school drop-out rate (Abayomi & Bukari, 2014). However, its precursor issues like deficiency of furniture and high student to educator proportion stay unsolved.…”