Participants at a workshop on the Ghana School Feeding Programme at Kanvilli, in the Northern Region, have called on management of the Ghana School Feeding Programme to clarify the issue of linking the Programme to local production and ensure that, a directive to that effect is issued and complied with by all actors of the Programme. 

According to the participants, such a measure will make priority option for buying food stuffs produced by farmers at the community level.

The workshop, jointly organized by Action Aid Ghana, Ibis and the Netherlands Development Organization (SNV) has the theme,  "Enhancing Stakeholder Participation in the Ghana School Feeding Programme".

About 83 non state and state actors of the programme as well as development partners from the Netherlands attended the workshop.

In a communiqué, the participants acknowledged the conscious efforts being made by the school feeding programme to re-orient the implementation and management of the programme. The participants however, called on the Ghana School Feeding Programme to actualize their intention of being transparent and working towards addressing the current imbalances in the number of pupils benefiting from the programme nation-wide.