{"id":173022,"date":"2015-12-09T09:14:20","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T09:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=173022"},"modified":"2015-12-09T09:14:20","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T09:14:20","slug":"school-feeding-programme-to-be-audited-gender-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/12\/school-feeding-programme-to-be-audited-gender-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"School Feeding Programme to be audited &#8211; Gender Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection says it will soon carry out a financial audit of the activities of the Ghana School Feeding Program (GSFP) nationwide.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the sector minister, Nana Oye Lithur, this is part of the ministry&#8217;s action plan to transform the school feeding program.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;757W2pAl88lElc1UhbSdJgkAWRJotVXQ&#8221;]Nana Oye Lithur, speaking during a stakeholders meeting of the school feeding program in Accra on Tuesday said that they had just finished a rapid audit assessment, which was \u201cgoing to inform future payments and future programming for school feeding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She also\u00a0revealed that the ministry was planning an independent audit of the scheme with the support of UNICEF.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe are going to commence a comprehensive financial audit of the school feeding program. UNICEF is supporting the school feeding program to conduct an independent operational performance assessment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She added that this independent audit would commence in January.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Government handed over the management of the School Feeding Program to the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection in August this year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The program was originally under the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The policy driving the progam intends to provide one nutritious meal each school day for all infant and primary school children from ages four (4) to twelve (12) years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The programme was established in 2005 with collaboration between Ghana and the Dutch Government as a means to boost domestic food production and increase school enrollment, attendance and retention among kindergarten and primary school children.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In recent times, the managers of the programme have been criticized and accused of mismanagement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Government has been blamed for apathy in its inability\u00a0to adopt measures to sustain the policy due to low budgetary allocation, poor nutritional content, and the non-payment of salaries of the caterers, among others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection says it will soon carry out a financial audit of the activities of the Ghana School Feeding Program (GSFP) nationwide. 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