National School Nutrition Programme - KwaZulu-Natal Department ...

menu and specifications of food products as outlined in
the NSNP Operational Guidelines.
10. JOB CREATION PROJECT
In terms of the Cabinet Resolution of 2002 and the
Declaration of KZN Education Summit of 2011,NSNP has a
mandate and responsibility to create job opportunities for
local women groups and local people within its scope of
providing nutritious meals to primary, LSEN and secondary
schools.
10.1 The NSNP Directorate shall ensure that local people
within the areas in which feeding schools are located
benefit from the programme as service providers (i.e.
Local Cooperatives & SMME’s); locally based Primary
Producers within municipal wards; and
as Voluntary Food Handlers and Groundsmen.
10.2 The Department of Education in collaboration with the
Department of Agriculture and of Economic Development
shall vigorously engage in identifying existing
community based projects and agricultural cooperatives
within the local municipal wards that shall be
trained and equipped to work as production centres of
food items which are consumed in feeding schools.
10.3 The KZN-DOE shall use its discretion to link/connect
NSNP service providers within the local municipal wards
and/or within the district to the identified community
based projects and/or agricultural cooperatives from
which they will be required to purchase in terms of the
provisions of this policy and the Service Level
Agreement.
10.4 The KZN-DOE shall in respect of the above reserve the
right to revoke or terminate the contract of the
service provider that shall fail to comply with this
provision.
10.5 The KZN-DOE shall incrementally increase the number of
Local Cooperatives (comprising of six members per
Cooperative) that shall be trained and equipped to
service schools with effect from 2012/13 financial
year. The newly formed cooperatives
shall be allocated schools by KZN-DOE on the basis of
the selection criteria that shall be deemed relevant at
the time, and on the basis of its discretion.
KZN-DOE NSNP Policy 2011 -12-
13/9/P