The Impact of Home Grown School Feeding Program(HGSFP) on Child Education and Nutrition in Nigeria
Godwin Nwaobi (gcnwaobi@gmail.com)
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Abstract:
As a lower income country with extreme poverty status, Nigeria is characterized by very large informal sector. Consequently, National Social investment programme (NSIP) of the Nigerian government were created to enshrine the value and vision for graduating Nigerian citizens from poverty circles through capacity building, investment and direct support. Specifically, the National Home Grown school feeding program (NHGSFP) is a government – led (cost effective) school feeding programme that uses food grown locally by small holding farmers to tackle critical poverty issues. However, school program and their evaluation is complex. Yet, there is relatively little evidence on the mechanisms through which they operate as well as their effects on desirable outcomes. Thus, using detailed administrative records for program participants, follow-up surveys and field experiments; we shall construct Randomized Control Trial (RCT) models that will allow us to establish the effects of the NHGSF programme on primary education and welfare in the selected states of Nigeria.
Keywords: Nigeria; poverty education; welfare; RCT models; impact evaluation; Nigerian States; Randomized Control; primary education; Randomization; field experiment; retention; academic performance; class attendance; hunger health. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C83 C90 C91 C92 C93 I0 I25 I28 J43 L66 O15 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-04-29
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