Mid-Term Review of Food Assistance to Primary Schools Projects under WFP Programmes

2000

WFP

The Primary School Nutritious Food Programme (PSNFP) was implemented with goal of improving school attendance, reduction in afternoon absenteeism; enhancing attention span and learning capacity through relieving short term hunger in eight food-deficit districts of Nepal. This study assesses enrollment trends, including afternoon absenteeism in the assisted primary schools. The study also analyzes the regularity of school attendance, partial absenteeism, the dropout and repeaters rate, and enrollment as a percent of school age children by gender.