Food is essential in the holistic development of young children, without which retardation and stagnation may occur. Success in academic performance depends on the way the young children are nurtured in preschools. Food is a crucial basic need which must be met before other high needs. Despite, the underscored importance of food to preschool children, most school feeding programmes in public ECDE centres in Marani Sub County are dysfunctional.The study was guided by the following objectives, to assess the influence of availability of food on implementation of sustainable SFP, to examine the influence of management on the implementation of sustainable SFP, to establish the influence of parents support on the implementation of sustainable SFP and to examine the influence of funding on the implementation of sustainable SFP The purpose of the study was to investigate what led to dysfunctional school feeding programmes (SFPs) and how it should be implemented and sustained in public preschools in Marani Sub-County, Kisii County. The study was premised on Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs theory. The study adopted descriptive survey design. The study targeted fifty public preschools with a population of one thousand pupils, fifty head teachers and hundred preschool teachers. Through simple random sampling, fifteen head teachers and thirty preschool teachers were sampled. The study employed preschool and head teachers’ questionnaires to collect data.
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KWENA, GRACE "Factors Influencing Implementation Of Sustainable School Feeding Programmes In Public Early Childhood Development Education Centres In Marani Sub County, Kisii County, Kenya" Afribary. Afribary, 19 May. 2021, https://tracking.afribary.com/works/factors-influencing-implementation-of-sustainable-school-feeding-programmes-in-public-early-childhood-development-education-centres-in-marani-sub-county-kisii-county-kenya-1. Accessed 19 Sep. 2024.
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KWENA, GRACE . "Factors Influencing Implementation Of Sustainable School Feeding Programmes In Public Early Childhood Development Education Centres In Marani Sub County, Kisii County, Kenya" Afribary (2021). Accessed September 19, 2024. https://tracking.afribary.com/works/factors-influencing-implementation-of-sustainable-school-feeding-programmes-in-public-early-childhood-development-education-centres-in-marani-sub-county-kisii-county-kenya-1