Officials from the Ghana School Feeding Programme and the World Bank have visited Flagstaff House Basic School in Accra as part of monitoring efforts to assess the impact of the school feeding initiative.
During the visit, the National Coordinator of the Ghana School Feeding Programme, Hajia Fati Forgor, reaffirmed government’s commitment to sustaining the provision of hot meals to schoolchildren to boost enrolment and retention.
She said the programme has expanded significantly over the years, growing from 10 schools with 1,900 pupils to over 12,000 schools nationwide, currently serving more than 1.2 million children.
Hajia Forgor noted that the expansion reflects government’s focus on improving access to basic education through social interventions.
Also speaking during the visit, the World Bank’s Social Policy Manager for West Africa, Robert Chase, said school feeding continues to play a key role in improving enrolment and learning outcomes.
“It increases enrolment and learning capacity and those are investments in youth which is essential to Ghana’s future. So this is really impressive,” he said.
The visit forms part of ongoing monitoring and evaluation of the programme’s impact on education delivery across the country. 
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