The Role of the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP) in Curbing School Drop-out of Pupils in Katsina State.
CHAPTER ONE
OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
The overall goal of the research is to:
- Investigate the impact of national home-grown school feeding program on curbing school dropouts of pupils in Kastina state.
- Investigate if there is a relationship between the national home grown school feeding program and retaining school pupils in Kastina state.
- Examine the perception of school pupils towards the national home-grown school feeding program in Kastina state.
CHAPTER TWO
REVIEW OF LITERATURE
INTRODUCTION
Our focus in this chapter is to critically examine relevant literature that would assist in explaining the research problem and furthermore recognize the efforts of scholars who had previously contributed immensely to similar research. The chapter intends to deepen the understanding of the study and close the perceived gaps.
Precisely, the chapter will be considered in three sub-headings:
- Conceptual Framework
- Theoretical Framework
CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
Concept National Home Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP)
The National Home Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP) is an educational policy for improving the quality of education. The National Home Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP) is an educational policy with the aims of increasing primary school enrollment. The National Home Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP) in public primary schools is designed to reduce the out of school children in Nigeria. The national feeding programme varies from countries to countries with different objectives. Globally, the feeding programme in public primary schools is design to improve the quality of public primary school education across the World.The objectives of the home school feeding programme in Nigeria include:
- To increase school enrolment, retention, completion and reduce dropout rate in primary schools. The progrmme was designed to help improve the enrolment of primary school pupils, ensure retention, reduce dropout rate and ensure total completion in the school.others which may not be considered now are :
- Improve nutrition and health of primary school children. The idea was to provide one meal per day to all primary school pupils with the classes of 1-3 in Nigeria with the objectives of improving their health status.
- To stimulate local agricultural production and boost income for the local farmers through using food that is locally grown by small holder farmers.
- To create jobs for community members and increase their finance by improving access to school feeding market and community benefit from new catering, processing and food handling jobs (Bosah, Bosah Chukwuebukaf&Obumneke-Okeke, 2019). The federal government would cater for feeding of pupils in primary 1, 2 and 3, while the state government would feed those in primary 4, 5 and 6 in the programme. “The programme is designed to improve enrolment rate by mopping out of school children from streets. It provides jobs for cooks and sustainable income for farmers who key into the scheme (Thisday 2020). The federal government has disclosed that about 56,000 public schools in 35 states have benefited from its National Home Grown School Feeding Programme since its commencement in 2015 (Thisday 2020). According to the Federal Government, the school feeding aims to improve the health and educational outcomes of public primary school pupils. It said over 300 million meals have been served to more than 7.5 million pupils in 46,000 Public Primary Schools in over 30 states since 2016 (Punch,2020).
According to Sitali (2021), home-grown school feeding programme (HGSFP) is an intervention programme to link agricultural development with school feeding. It constitutes a school feeding model which relies mostly on external funding or rather foreign food aid, especially in developing countries (McEwan, 2013). HGSFP is generally considered primary as education intervention that facilitates equal access to education and learning opportunities (Karisa and Ordho, 2014). It is an established development intervention with several objectives including education, nutrition, health and value transfer (Ahmed, 2004). HGSFP has been implemented in different parts of the world with different purposes. According to Bundy et al (2009), the variation on purpose is determined by the need, resources and policies in given country context. It is a vision to reduce hunger among school children, so that hunger is not an obstacle to their development (Diallo, 2012).
CHAPTER THREE
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
INTRODUCTION
In this chapter, we described the research procedure for this study. A research methodology is a research process adopted or employed to systematically and scientifically present the results of a study to the research audience viz. a vis, the study beneficiaries.
RESEARCH DESIGN
Research designs are perceived to be an overall strategy adopted by the researcher whereby different components of the study are integrated in a logical manner to effectively address a research problem. In this study, the researcher employed the survey research design. This is due to the nature of the study whereby the opinion and views of people are sampled. According to Singleton & Straits, (2009), Survey research can use quantitative research strategies (e.g., using questionnaires with numerically rated items), qualitative research strategies (e.g., using open-ended questions), or both strategies (i.e., mixed methods). As it is often used to describe and explore human behaviour, surveys are therefore frequently used in social and psychological research.
POPULATION OF THE STUDY
According to Udoyen (2019), a study population is a group of elements or individuals as the case may be, who share similar characteristics. These similar features can include location, gender, age, sex or specific interest. The emphasis on study population is that it constitute of individuals or elements that are homogeneous in description.
This study was carried out on the role of the national home grown school feeding programme (NHGSFP) in curbing school drop-out of pupils in katsina state as a case study. Teachers and students of the selected schools form the population of the study.
CHAPTER FOUR
DATA PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS
INTRODUCTION
This chapter presents the analysis of data derived through the questionnaire and key informant interview administered on the respondents in the study area. The analysis and interpretation were derived from the findings of the study. The data analysis depicts the simple frequency and percentage of the respondents as well as interpretation of the information gathered. A total of one hundred and forty-seven (147) questionnaires were administered to respondents of which only one hundred and forty-one (141) were returned and validated. This was due to irregular, incomplete and inappropriate responses to some questionnaire. For this study a total of 141 was validated for the analysis.
CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
SUMMARY
In this study, our focus was on the effect of leadership style on subordinates’ productivity using united bank for Africa( UBA) state as a case study. The study specifically was aimed at highlighting the pattern of leadership and the extent it has affected organizational performance in the United Bank for Africa (UBA), identify the factors that is responsible for worker’s low performance in the United Bank for African (UBA), find out how leadership style affected labour management relations and productivity in the United Bank for Africa (UBA) and examine the roles a leader plays in an organization. A total of 30 responses were validated from the enrolled participants where all respondent are drawn from staff of UBA.
CONCLUSION
Based on the finding of this study, the following conclusions were made:
- The impact of the national homegrown school feeding program on curbing school dropouts of pupils in Kastina state is address hunger and encourage learners to enroll, Improves pupil interest for school, Better concentration in school and understand and perform academically.
- There is a significant relationship between the national home grown school feeding program and retaining school pupils in Kastina state.
- The perception of school pupils towards the national home-grown school feeding program in Kastina state is address hunger and encourage learners to enroll, contribute to the improvement of their nutritional status, provide nourishment for their growth and development and help boost their immune system and enhance health and nutrition values and behaviour.
RECOMMENDATION
Based on the responses obtained, the researcher proffers the following recommendations:
- The federal, state and local government should increase the funding of the National Home Grown School Feeding Policy (NHGSFP). This will aid the administration of the programme;
- The federal government should strengthen the monitoring and evaluation system of the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP). This will help to realize the objectives of the programme;
- All form of corruption should be discourage in the implementation of the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP) through effective use of anti-corruption agencies and ensuring accountability in the disbursement of the funds;
- Current and reliable data should be generated and made available for the planners of the National Home Grown School Feeding programme (NHGSFP) for effective administration of the programme;
- Funds for the implementation of the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP) should be released on time to aid effective administration of the programme
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