Transcript SRHR and HIV&AIDS

CSTL Sharing Meeting 2014
SOUTH AFRICAN
NATIONAL SCHOOL NUTRITION
PROGRAMME
Amanda Rozani
South Africa
Southern Sun O.R. Tambo - Johannesburg, South Africa
17-20 November 2014
Presentation Outline
Background
Policy Mandate
DORA Legal Requirements
Purpose of NSNP
Key pillars
Achievements
Challenges & Interventions
Partnerships
Conclusion
Background
• Introduced in 1994 as Primary School Nutrition Programme (PSNP)
administered by Department of Health
• Transferred to the Department of Education in 2002, currently Department of
Basic Education.
• Renamed the National School Nutrition Programme (NSNP) following
intense review
• Funded from a Conditional Grant in accordance with Division of Revenue Act
(DORA)
Our Policy Mandate
1. Constitution
of RSA (Act 108 of 1996)
• The right to have access to sufficient food and water
• Right to access to quality education
2. Cabinet resolution 2002:
• Minimum of four cooked meals and one non-cooked meal per week,
provision of necessary utensils, standardized monitoring system
3. National Develop Plan 4. Conditional Grant Framework (reviewed annually) in the Division of
Revenue Act (DORA)
- Sets minimum standards for school feeding e.g meal cost, serving at
10h00 on all school days, menu requirements etc.
DORA Legal Requirements
Step 1
DORA consultation
process
DORA Legal
requirements
Step 2
Business plan process
CARE AND SUPPORT FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING
CARE
Purpose of NSNP
• To address learner’s ability to learn
by providing them with nutritious
meals
• To enhance the educational
experience of the most needy
learners through promotion of
punctual attendance, improving
concentration and general health
development
Key Pillars of the Programme
Feeding
Provide nutritious meals
Nutrition Education
Promote nutritional knowledge, improve
healthy food choices healthy lifestyles
Food Gardens
Food production knowledge & skills; natural
resources protection; improve school meals
School Feeding
• To contribute to teaching and learning by working with provinces and
districts in providing nutritious meals
• Learners are served with a cooked menu i.e starch, protein, vegetable and/
or fruit
• Cost per menu (inclusive of costing
fuel and honorarium)
- primary schools - average R2.73
- secondary schools - average R3.55
Nutrition Education
• To “make every school a healthy school” where health promotion and
awareness is integrated into school life
• To increase the general awareness of good nutrition in school communities
towards improving the health and well being of individuals (e.g National
Nutrition Week)
• To build the skills of learners to take more self-responsibility for their health
and physical development
Food Gardens in Schools
To promote sustainable food gardens in schools to develop skills
Menu
• Learners are served with nutritious meals on all
school days
• Plate consist of three (3) food groups (Protein,
starch, vegetable and/or fruit)
• Meal should be culturally acceptable
• Provinces are allowed to develop their own menus
guided by National office
• Menu differs from one province to province
NSNP Achievements
Milestones
•
2004:
Transfer of programme to DBE
•
2008:
National Treasury increased the NSNP budget to extend
Quintile (Q) 1 to 3 secondary
schools
the programme to learners in
•
2009:
April
Programme extended to Q1 secondary schools in
2009
2010:
Budget : R1 billion > R5 billion
•
2010:
Programme extended to Q2 secondary schools
•
2011:
Beneficiaries: 6 million > over 9 million
•
2011:
Programme extended to Q3 secondary schools
•
2013:
New Model: programme transferred money to schools by more Provinces
•
2014:
Stipend for volunteers : R400 for 27 752>R840 for 45 000
Procurement Model
Centralised Model
• Province and district procure food on behalf of the schools
• Contracted service providers distribute food to schools
Decentralised Model
• The model of transferring NSNP funds directly to schools
• Schools are responsible for all NSNP procurement processes i.e. Selection
and contract management of the service providers
• Schools places order for food and receive deliveries
• Eastern Cape, Northern Cape, North West and Free State provinces
implement the model
• Training/Manual on Financial Management for schools
Challenges and interventions
Lack of preparation, storage and eating facilities in
schools,
School building programme, ASIDI. Strengthen partnerships
with business sector to support schools
Continuous training, Guidelines on Food and Gas safety
Health and hygiene, food/gas safety
Backlog in equipment and utensils esp. primary schools
set aside allocation from CG progressively for primary schools,
Equipment and Utensils Specifications
Insufficient district capacity (poor support and
monitoring)
Internships, training workshops to district officials,
interdepartmental collaboration (EPWP)
Non-compliance by some service providers on
standards
Non-payment as per Service level agreement (SLA), sampling
of products for lab tests (e.g soya) and engage manufacturers
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Partnerships
Infrastructure/
Equipment and
Utensils
Research
Breakfast Programme
CSIR
NEPAD/PCD
Massmart and Tiger
Brands Foundation
Kellogg's South
Africa
Tiger Brands
Foundation
Nutrition
Education and
Food Gardens
Tiger Brands
Foundation/UJ
Discovery
Health
Nestle South
Africa
Holiday
School Food
Parcels
Conclusion & future plans
• Whole-school feeding, universal access.
• Access to education - a fundamental right in RSA achieved
• Quality and Efficiencies – capacity all levels
• School breakfast
• 2015 Deworming programme
• Build on strong partnerships (e.g link with agricultural cooperatives)
• Leverage on best practices (nutrition journals)
“Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is
knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it”
David Starr Jordan
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