GSFP’s strategic partners are international and Ghanaian aid organizations. Most of them have entered into a so-called memorandum of understanding (MOU) with GSFP; a statement of preparedness to provide collaboration and support.

• Provision of a supplementary food basket that makes the GSFP menus complete.
• District-level support of planning, implementation and monitoring of school feeding.
• Attuned planning and management at district level of contributions of money and food.

IFDC
The International Centre for Soil Fertility and Agricultural Development (IFDC) has signed a MOU with GSFP to develop supply chain models for ways to link school purchases at community or district level with local farmers’ organizations. These models and the lessons learned will strengthen the role of farmers in GSFP in other parts of Ghana. Ways to utilize market information systems (MIS) for the benefit of the programme will be demonstrated, for instance by using mobile phones. 

 SEND
The Social Enterprise Development (SEND) has a MOU with GSFP to provide support in monitoring and evaluation (M&E) and in food security. This activity is financed by Cordaid. SEND is already operational in 42 districts and can use its existing monitoring structures for GSFP. SEND has also indicated that it will provide access to its Soya Bean Project. Read SEND Monitoring report of GSFP

Millennium Village Project
The Millennium Village Project has adopted a model village in Bonsaso (Amansie West District in the Ashanti Region). GSFP will help the village to increase agricultural productivity. The farmers receive seed and fertilizer via the Millennium Village Project and in return they donate 10% of their harvest to ten participating schools in the district. The Millennium Village Project provides the kitchen facilities and arranges the training of the cooks.

GAIN
A network of Ghanaian and international scientists, research institutes, NGOs and development organizations with experience in agricultural development has been established formally under the name Ghana Agriculture Initiatives Network (GAIN). GAIN focuses on the development of the agricultural aspects of GSFP: the creation of a strong, sustainable market for local products and the study of the programme in relation to other school feeding programmes by means of impact analysis.

SNV 
SNV Ghana is supporting the implementation of GSFP in 11 districts and has signed a MOU with the National Secretariat. SNV supports GSFP through capacity building within district authorities, and stimulating interest amongst NGOs that wish to support GSFP. SNV is now embedding GSFP in a larger education partnership with WFP and UNICEF in three districts in the northern region. As a member of SIGN, SNV also represents SIGN in Ghana. Read SNV inventory report

PCD

Partnership for Child Development (PCD), a global consortium of civil society organizations, academic institutions and technical experts based at Imperial College London, leads and coordinates an initiative to support governments in sub-Saharan Africa countries in designing and implementing home-grown school feeding programmes. With a grant of $USD12 million, PCD will pilot a technical assistance programme in five African countries who are already implementing school feeding (Cote d’Ivoire, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria and Ghana). Each country is tasked to prepare a technical assistance plan for support. The plan of Ghana has been developed and validated at a stakeholder meeting in Accra in July 2010 and will focus on five GSFP areas namely policy, funding, design & implementation, institutional capacity and community particiaption. The programme in Ghana is therefore on course and PCD’s presence is being rooted gradually.