Map the School Feeding Gap in Ibadan's Public Primary Schools

Nigeria's National Home Grown School Feeding Programme was designed to provide one nutritious meal per school day to public primary school pupils while supporting local farmers. In Oyo State, including Ibadan, implementation has been uneven: payments to cooks are delayed, menus lack protein, and monitoring is inconsistent. Meanwhile, children in the same schools bring processed snacks from outside vendors as supplements or replacements. This brief asks you to treat that gap as a research and policy problem. Using publicly available data (government reports, civil society audits, academic papers, and news coverage) combined with at least five structured interviews or survey responses from parents, teachers, or community members in Ibadan, build a clear picture of where the programme is failing and why. Your deliverable is a policy brief of 1,200 to 1,800 words, formatted for a government or NGO audience. It should cover: a summary of what the programme is supposed to deliver, specific documented gaps in Ibadan or Oyo State, the root causes you have identified, and three concrete recommendations with rough cost and feasibility assessments. Include a one-page executive summary that could stand alone. Good work will be specific rather than general. It will distinguish between problems that are design failures and problems that are implementation failures. It will not recommend 'more funding' without explaining what the funding would change and who would be accountable for the outcome.