The Role of Food Programme in Reducing Truancy in Community Secondary Schools in Tanzania: The Case of Musoma District Council.

Misinde,, Saverina (2020) The Role of Food Programme in Reducing Truancy in Community Secondary Schools in Tanzania: The Case of Musoma District Council. Masters thesis, The Open University of Tanzania.

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Abstract

This study assessed the role of food programme in reducing truancy in community secondary schools. The research objectives were to explore teaching staff, parents and students’ perception on the role of food provision in community secondary schools, to examine truancy rate in school with food programme and without food programme. Six community secondary schools in Musoma district council were involved, namely; Etaro, Mugango and Suguti, that had food programme and Mkirira, Nyakatende and Kasoma that without food programme. The conception framework involves food provision as an independent variable and truancy as a dependent variable. This study employed case study design where by qualitative and quantitative research approach were the source of data collection and analysis. Instruments used are interview and documentary review. The findings confirmed that, food provision in Community Secondary Schools plays a big role in supporting eradication of truancy of students. The Cohort of students with food provision program had a minimal number of truants compared to the cohort of students without food provision program. The study recommends to the government, community and other education stakeholders to have a great focus in enhancing adequate food provision in Community Secondary Schools to reduce truancy and raise performance. Keywords: Food provision, truancy, students, community secondary schools.

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