In spite of relative successes, Ghana still faces a number of challenges within the education sector. Thus, towards the end of the 20th century, government embarked on a review of the education sector as well as embarking on programmes and policies that would shape the education sector to meet the demands of the 21st Century.

The national average net enrolment figures for Ghanaian Primary Schools is very impressive for Sub-Saharan Africa at 77%. However, although this is impressive, there are huge disparities between areas, in 2007 WFP assisted schools facing net enrolment rates as low as 40.0 percent, 41.6 percent and 40.0 percent, respectively for the Northern, Upper East and Upper West Regions. Schools facing such low enrolment figures are those which the Ghana School Feeding Programme aims to assist.