The sponsorship of the School Feeding Programme in Kenya is through the World Food Programme (WFP) initiatives. The WFP’s new five-year development program (2009-2013) has emphasized the need to hand the program over to the Government after 28 years of assistance (WFP, 2008).In an effort to transition away from WFP assistance and create a more sustainable and locally integrated program, the Ministry of Education began implementing a Homegrown School Feeding Program (HGSFP) in July of 2009 (Espejo 2009).
To retain momentum of school going initiated by the NARC government in 2002 which resulted in mass enrollment to primary schools by Kenyan children, hence sustainability was one of the key factors of this enrollment, the feeding programme, has to be addressed by all stakeholders.
The general objective of this study was to assess the sustainability of school feeding programme in Kenya after WFP exit. It explored the challenges of Community participation. A descriptive study design was used to collect quantitative and qualitative data and adopted deliberate sampling technique.
A likert scale of 1 = strongly-disagree to 5 = strongly-agree was used to rate community participation. The mean rating after analysis was 3.51 meaning with community participation sustainability would be achieved.
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