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The challenges and prospects of the school feeding programme in Northern Ghana

There is a general problem of enrolment to basic education in northern Ghana. Available statistics indicate that from 2000-05 only about 42 per cent of qualified applicants of school-going age in the Northern Region were enrolled in basic schools. This paper assesses the implementation of the progra...

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Main Authors: Sulemana, Mohammed, Ngah, Ibrahim, Majid, M. Rafee
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Published: Routledge Informa Ltd 2013
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L Education (General)
Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/37898/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2013.781127
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spelling my.utm.378982017-02-15T01:27:05Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/37898/ The challenges and prospects of the school feeding programme in Northern Ghana Sulemana, Mohammed Ngah, Ibrahim Majid, M. Rafee L Education (General) There is a general problem of enrolment to basic education in northern Ghana. Available statistics indicate that from 2000-05 only about 42 per cent of qualified applicants of school-going age in the Northern Region were enrolled in basic schools. This paper assesses the implementation of the programme in the Tamale Metropolitan Assembly. The findings showed that, whilst the programme has increased primary school enrolment, the major impediment to the implementation of the programme is cash flow constraints. Routledge Informa Ltd 2013 Article PeerReviewed Sulemana, Mohammed and Ngah, Ibrahim and Majid, M. Rafee (2013) The challenges and prospects of the school feeding programme in Northern Ghana. Development in Practice, 23 . pp. 1-12. ISSN 09614524 (Submitted) http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2013.781127 DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2013.781127
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topic L Education (General)
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Sulemana, Mohammed
Ngah, Ibrahim
Majid, M. Rafee
The challenges and prospects of the school feeding programme in Northern Ghana
description There is a general problem of enrolment to basic education in northern Ghana. Available statistics indicate that from 2000-05 only about 42 per cent of qualified applicants of school-going age in the Northern Region were enrolled in basic schools. This paper assesses the implementation of the programme in the Tamale Metropolitan Assembly. The findings showed that, whilst the programme has increased primary school enrolment, the major impediment to the implementation of the programme is cash flow constraints.
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author Sulemana, Mohammed
Ngah, Ibrahim
Majid, M. Rafee
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Ngah, Ibrahim
Majid, M. Rafee
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title The challenges and prospects of the school feeding programme in Northern Ghana
title_short The challenges and prospects of the school feeding programme in Northern Ghana
title_full The challenges and prospects of the school feeding programme in Northern Ghana
title_fullStr The challenges and prospects of the school feeding programme in Northern Ghana
title_full_unstemmed The challenges and prospects of the school feeding programme in Northern Ghana
title_sort challenges and prospects of the school feeding programme in northern ghana
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url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/37898/
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