Assessment of Community Perceptions on The Implementation of School Feeding Program in Tanzanian Secondary Schools, A Case Study of Dar Es salaam City Council.

Alphonce, Alphonce (2024) Assessment of Community Perceptions on The Implementation of School Feeding Program in Tanzanian Secondary Schools, A Case Study of Dar Es salaam City Council. Masters thesis, The Open University of Tanzania.

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Abstract

This study was intended to assess the Community Perception on the implementation of school feeding program in Tanzanian Secondary Schools, was conducted in Dar Es Salaam City Council, Dar Es Salaam region. The study involved four Secondary Schools, in each school one head of school, ten parents, five members of SFP Committee, five teachers and 50 students were involved. Two WEOs and Three street chair persons each representing the school located at his or her areas are involved. The study applied both qualitative and quantitative approaches with interviews, questionnaire, direct observation and Documentary review as methods for data collection. The study found that the perceptions of teachers, students and parents on SFPs are heterogeneous and perceived the program as Pandora’s Box that came with good things and bad things at the same time. They pointed good things like solving short hunger problem during class ours especially afternoon sessions, motivating teaching and learning process, increase student’s creativity and body health, and making learning activities as loving art to students, increase students school attendance and academic performance and brings sense of socialization among students. The bad things perceived are like low increased conflicts between teachers and parents, quality and quantity of the food provided to students (considered unhealthy), wastage of time, interference teaching and learning processes, bias nature of the program and increased workload to teachers. It was further discovered that the LGAs failed to execute their roles and functions relating to SFPs. In addition the study found that the developing trend of the SFPs in DCC is stunted and future direction of the program is living since the stakeholder still have hope on the program if some adjustment well done. Finally the study recommends that government should take control of the SFPs full as how done in government boarding schools. Keywords: SFPs, community, stakeholders, LGA, DCC, academic performance, perception

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