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The Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Lariba Zuweira Abudu has announced that the necessary auditing and validation has been completed for school feeding caterers to be paid their arrears from the 2022 academic year.

The Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Madam Lariba Zuweira Abudu, says caterers of the Ghana School Feeding Programme will receive payments of their arrears for the third term of the 2022 academic year this week.

National School Feeding Caterers Association has rejected a proposed 20 pesewas increment on the current ₵1 allocation per meal for school pupils under the School Feeding Programme.

The Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Lariba Zuweira Abudu, has assured that the caterers working under the School Feeding Programme will receive the 2022 academic year third term arrears due them next week.

There is an urgent need for advocacy to ensure that the issues of the poor and the vulnerable are main-streamed in the rolled-out of social protection schemes so as to ascertain the impact or otherwise of those schemes. ActionAid Ghana, a Non-Governmental Organization working in support of basic needs and rights of the poor, with an emphasis on human rights, rights to land and education, under its Northern Ghana Integrated Project with sponsorship from the European Union has organized

The World Bank Country Director Pierre Laporte has indicated that the bank could be forced to cut or review funding for some of government’s social intervention programmes. He stated that the bank can take such measures if proposed reforms are not taken on board as part of the ongoing International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme review of […]

The World Bank has called for transparency and accountability in the government's School Feeding Programme.

By Politico staff writer Two-day training for school feeding assessment personnel for the Northern Region has over the weekend ended at the Old City Council Hall in Makeni. In an interview with Politico, the Director of the School Feeding Programme in the Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary Education (MBSSE), Sengbe Rogers Koker highlighted the importance of the school

Besides shoring up enrollment numbers and improving nutrition, the programme offers a ready market for locally produced milk in a win-win arrangement.

Caterers under the School Feeding Programme have vowed not to cook for the school children until monies owed them are paid. The caterers insist they will not be moved by empty promises this time.  Kwaku Amedume, the spokesman for the caterers in a media interview said they have been taken granted for far too long.  […]