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National School Nutrition Programme

National School Nutrition Programme. Presentation to Standing Committee for Education 24 August 2005. Focus of presentation. Provide committee with a brief overview of status of NSNP 18 months into its management by the Education Department; Highlight some of the key shifts made;

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National School Nutrition Programme

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  1. National School Nutrition Programme Presentation to Standing Committee for Education 24 August 2005

  2. Focus of presentation • Provide committee with a brief overview of status of NSNP 18 months into its management by the Education Department; • Highlight some of the key shifts made; • Highlight further shifts being contemplated;

  3. Targets of NSNP in 2004/5 f/y • Ensure smooth transition of scheme from DoH to DoE; • Create capacity to manage scheme at all critical levels; • Improve quality of food and service; • Ensure feeding for at least 156 of the total number of school days; • Refine targeting criteria to ensure reach to poorest learners

  4. Achievements in Year One • Programme successfully transferred and integrated into education; • Feeding approximately 5million learners in 16 000 schools for required number of days; • Created NSNP units in all 9 provinces; • Provided training for 200 district managers on project management – special focus on monitoring • Visited and monitored programme in 4 248 schools mainly in rural, farm and informal settlements

  5. Achievements in 2004/05 • Engaged and paid a modest honorarium to 40 000 unemployed women who are heads of households • Contracted 316 SMMEs who are resident in communities where we are feeding; • 98,5% of budget spent by end of March.

  6. Key focus for 2005/06 • Strengthened monitoring and a quality service that is properly targeted; • Sustainable Food Production in schools • Stimulation of local economy; • Job Creation

  7. Strengthened monitoring • Monitoring visits by provinces officials stipulated and within guiding framework – complimented by adhoc visits by DoE; • Provincial monitoring focuses on quality of service including adherence to menus, food preparation and food handling; • DoE focuses on the above as well as management of finances.

  8. Sustainable Food Production • Major drive to ensure operational school/community gardens in all schools where feeding happening; • Capacity established both in the DoE and in the 9 provinces to assist schools. • 2803 new gardens established in the 9 provinces; • Target to increase these by an additional 2 000 in current f/y;

  9. Sustainable Food Production • Collaboration primarily with Departments of Agriculture and Health hugely beneficial to project; • In KZN, DoA assisting in the training of school communities in productive gardening. Benefit spilled over to local communities who have established own gardens.

  10. Sustainable Food Production • In Mpumalanga partnership with DoH resulted in irrigation systems being set up in 37 schools; • In NW the Agriculture Research Council providing seedlings for Fleshy Sweet Potato in targeted schools and providing assistance in planting them; • In NC, DWAF has donated fruit trees to schools and DoH a variety of vegetable seeds for schools and home use.

  11. Stimulation of local economy • In 5 provinces (FS, Gauteng, Limpopo, NC and NW) government prescription that local SMEs be preferred service providers; • North West narrowed this to parents with learners in a particular school feeding their children; • Both NW and NC prescribe number of schools to be serviced by any one provider, to curb monopolies;

  12. Stimulation of local economy • In KZN local women already being trained as cooperatives that the programme can draw on; • To date 1 659 SMEs being utilised – of the targeted 2 083 for the 2005/06 f/y

  13. Job Creation(?) • Systematic targeting of volunteer food handlers enabling DoE to create some job opportunities; • Target for 2005/06, 23 037 but already 26 612 engaging in the programme; • Honorarium given to volunteers critical – currently sits at a range of between R80 and R512 p/m • Intention of DoE to prescribe that honorarium to be no less than R400 p/m for a 4hr day;

  14. Key remaining challenges • Refining targeting criteria to prioritise truly needy learners; • Shift to broader school nutrition programme to address not only issues of hunger but link to healthy life-styles; • Move to sustain feeding beyond school days for needy and orphaned children; • Increase community engagement and particularly parental involvement in all aspects of the programme.

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