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Nigeria: Govt Tasked On School Feeding Programme
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This Day (Lagos)
8 July 2008
Posted to the web 9 July 2008
Yinka Kolawole
Osogbo
A two-day National Conference on Home Grown School Feeding and Health Programme (HGSFHP) for State Programme/Desk Officers has ended in Osogbo, Osun State, with a call to the Federal Government to enact laws for the effective implementation of the programme at all levels, if it is to be sustained.
In a communiqué issued at the end of the meeting, the 13 State Programme and Desk Officers or their representatives, suggested that the federal government should institutionalise a separate agency under the presidency to run the programme, while encouraging all the states of the federation to embark on it as a means of realising the MDGs.
The communiqué commended the efforts of the three-tiers of governments in initiating the programme and appreciated the states that are struggling to keep the programme running.
It observed that UBE Intervention fund for the programme has so far come only once, which in effect, has crippled the implementation of the programme in many pilot states. It therefore solicited the release of the backlog of the intervention funds without further delay, while urging the federal government to fashion out strategies for continuous funding and sustainability of the programme in the pilot states.
As a strategic source of funding, the forum appealed strongly to all state and local governments to institutionalise a financial framework for the sustainability of the programme as it is done in states like Osun, Yobe and Nasarawa. The HGSFHP committees should also be made functional where they are not.
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Finally, the communiqué stressed that, "all stakeholders such as Farmers Association, Market people Association, Philanthropists, Financial Institution, International Donor, among others, should contribute to the funding and sustainability of the programme."
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