Effect Of Educational Project On Learners Learning Outcome In Twelve Years Basic Education Schools: A Case Of School Feeding Program As Implemented In Rubavu District, Rwanda

The purpose of this study is to help students, parents, secondary teachers, school’s kitchen managers and Head teachers to master the methods and their role in encouraging learners to take lunch at school; especially improve student’s learning outcomes in twelve years’ basic education. The objectives are to assess the influence of food ratios and the timing of the meals on learning outcomes in Twelve Years basic education schools of Rubavu district, to assess the influence of food quality on learning outcomes in twelve years basic education schools of Rubavu district and. The study employed a descriptive research design Questionnaires to enable the researcher to bring out the details of the exact situation on the ground. This study was being done at 4 twelve years basic education located in the Rubavu district targeting 2112 students. Therefore, 336 respondents were the target population of this study and the composition of the participants. To validate and ensure reliability of the questionnaire, a test retest was conducted in a space of two weeks between the test’s correlation coefficient using SPSS version 22.0 (V. 22.0) was established and after which necessary adjustments on the content and its reliability was ensured before the main study. In this way, sampling technique was a simple purposive sampling technique was employed in this study, where every participant was given an equal and independent chance to participate. Recommendations of the study were: Government has to mobilize more stakeholders or non-government organization to orient their funds in the implementation of school feeding program, Parents must participate in school feeding program rather than thinking that this program should only be sponsored by government, Government has to develop continuous professional development that are related to the effective implementation of school feeding program and Government should make monitoring and evaluation of school feeding program because some of the school do not put more effort in its implementation. Key words: learning outcomes, school feeding program, Twelve Years Basic of Education and quality of education.