With a budget that represents that of about 18 ministries together (33,081 million pesos), the National Institute of Student Welfare (Inabie) highlights the impact of school meals on the finances of the beneficiary households and on the economy in general.
The entity stated that it has earned approximately 83% of its budget (27,612.9 million pesos), with a supervision and internal audit strategy that has helped them to streamline spending. In fact, its executive director, Víctor Castro, assured that he is paying 20% in advance to suppliers.
Castro held a meeting with journalists from the economic area, to whom he detailed how the budget execution of the entity that he directs and the improvements that have been made to achieve a better quality service and in the time established for the student calendar.
The entity developed a scheme of indicators for each of the services it offers: school health, props and foodthe latter being the one to which the largest volume of the annual budget is allocated, the accrued values amount to 281 million pesos, 4,463 million and 26,068 million, respectively.
According to Rosaura Brito, financial director of the Inabiethe entity has 2,136 supplier companies school meals to meet the demand of 6,908 educational centers nationwide, of which 5,446 are extended-day.
In detail, the suppliers are distributors as follows:
- 10 milk processing plants
- 137 raw food supply companies
- 143 textile and footwear companies
He 95% of these suppliers They are micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) local businesses that acquire their inputs from farms and supply businesses located in their home environment, which is why there is an indirect economic dynamism. Of all these SMEs, 50% are led by women.
In that order, he assured that the local shopping of bananas, eggs, fruits, vegetables and other foods and ingredients are produced in different shops in the country. “In one day we acquire two million bananas. That is produced in some farm in the country,” Castro said.
He Inabie distributes supplies for some Two million beneficiaries Among the student population in the public sector, teachers and auxiliary staff of educational centers nationwide. Of these, 720,000 are families that receive some type of public schooling services.
Advance to suppliers is 20%
Rosaura Brito indicated that they improved the payment times to suppliers, taking them from 90 days to 45 days. In fact, he said they are paying 20% of invoices in advance so that suppliers can have the liquidity to do their work on time.
The reports of the Inabie They point out that in In August, 4.768 billion were paid pesos in advance to suppliers. “Now they are the ones who owe us because we paid them an advance on their invoices,” he said.
In a school period, the Inabie receives approximately 18,482 payment files which are analyzed by a specialized unit with 30 people who carefully evaluate each receipt. “On average, each supplier has an allocation of 500 rations,” Castro explained.
To ensure the safety, health and safety of the food supplied, they have carried out more than 2,000 audits to the kitchens that have the food program.
