ENFLUENCE OF SCHOOL FEEDING PROGRAMME ON PERFORMANCE OF PUBLIC PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN BOSSASO DISTRICT BARI REGION, PUNTLAND - SOMALIA

According UNICEF report 2015 Somalia are amongst one of the poorest enrolment rates for primary school-aged children in the world. This mainly due to consecutive droughts, prolonged conflicts, economic collapse, mass displacement, poor government, for nearly 3 decades. To increase the enrolment rates of the primary Schools, WFP, in partnership with the Puntland Ministry of Education, initiated a school meals programme in the 2005/ 2006 scholastic year - targeting 17 schools, and reaching out to 3,473 schoolchildren. Since then, new schools joined to the School feeding programme increased on yearly bases. The main objective of the study is to investigate the effect of school feeding programme to the Bossaso Primary Schools. The main findings of the study summarized according to the results of the research and it has confirmed that in general the School Feeding Schools increased by 110% compared to the Non School Feeding, which achieved enrolment rate of 88% during the last 12 years according to the MOE data. According MOE data, the pupil?s completion percentage or retention rate of the Scholastic point out those students receiving School Meals constantly shown higher compared to the Non School Meal Pupils by an average of 9%. The data indicate that 11 out of 12 years the School Feeding schools enrolled higher girls by 46% compared to the Non School Feeding by 44%. In terms of Academic Performance, the research investigated percentage of the School pupils promoted to the next grade in the last 12 years. According Ministry of Education data Non School Feeding Program Pupils failure were an average of 5% during last twelve years against 2.3% of the School Feeding Pupils, which is equivalent to 97.7%, promoted to the next Scholastic compared to the 95% for Control Primary Schools, which quite significant for high number of Schools Pupils to achieve required academic performance. The conclusion arising from study to obtain the relationship between School Feeding and academic performance of the Bossaso Public primary Schools proved that school meals contributed significant and 11 out of 12 year?s school feeding pupils performed higher than non-school feeding pupils did..