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In this strategy (2020-2030) WFP lays out its vision of working with governments and partners to jointly ensure that all primary schoolchildren have access to good quality meals in school, accompanied by a broader integrated package of health and nutrition services. The first section of this document reviews evidence that the investment in the health and nutrition of schoolchildren is important and it also highlights that it is a systematically neglected issue, especially in low-income countries. …
The School Health Programme under AYUSHMAN BHARAT is a joint collaborative programme between the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and Ministry of Human Resource & Development. This initiative is targeting both Education and Health implementers and is envisaged to facilitate an integrated approach to health programming and more effective learning at the school level. …
The Syllabus is presented in four strands personality and social development, growth development and health awareness, health of individual and community and physical fitness. Sub-strands include topics such as body awareness, nutrition, common disease and disorders, personal identity, relationship, resilience, environment health, personal hygiene, safety at home school and community, fundamental movement skills, educational gymnastic and swimming. …
Health and Physical Education Teacher’s Guide includes teaching ideas and strategies that can be used to trigger, reinforce and enrich students understanding of the concepts being taught. The book will assist the teachers to implement the Health and Physical Education Syllabus for Key Stage 1. A strong emphasis is laid on developing concepts, skills, values and attitudes. It encourages the teachers to adopt a variety of teaching approaches to facilitate and enhance learning. …
The Global Nutrition Policy Review 2016–2017 is the report of the second comprehensive analysis of nutrition-related policy environment, coordination mechanisms, available capacities and actions being taken in the WHO Member States. 176 Member States (91%) and one area responded to the survey carried out between July 2016 and December 2017 on topic areas related to infant and young child nutrition, school health and nutrition, promotion of healthy diets, vitamin and mineral nutrition, prevention and management of acute malnutrition and nutrition, and infectious disease. …
The Health and Physical Well-being – Oraanga e te Tupuanga Meitaki – Curriculum establishes the direction for learning in Health Education, and Physical Education, through four general aims. These general aims become the four strands of the achievement objectives: Me; Me Being Physical; Me with Other People; and Me in the Community. The curriculum then sets out a clear and structured progression of achievement objectives. Five key areas of learning reflect and address the current health and physical education needs of Cook Islands students. …
The evaluation was jointly managed by the WFP Eswatini Country Office and the Ministry of Education and Training and conducted by independent consultants. Purpose of the evaluation was to: (i) assess and report on the performance and results of the NSFP as well as WFP technical support to the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET), the National Emergency Response Council on HIV and AIDS and partners; (ii) determine the reasons why results were achieved or otherwise, in order to draw lessons and derive good practices for future design and implementation of the programme. …
This report contains four sections: Section I presents the introduction. Section II highlights WFP’s achievements in 2018 to assist the world’s most vulnerable children and their families, communities and governments through school feeding activities based on analysis of Annual and Country Performance reports. Section III presents the previously unpublished findings of the stocktaking exercise covering recent evaluations, audits, and country, regional and global discussions, conducted in 2018, which forms the basis for WFP’s new global strategy. …
UNICEF’s The State of the World’s Children examines the issue of children, food and nutrition. Despite progress in the past two decades, one third of children under 5 are malnourished – stunted, wasted or overweight – while two thirds are at risk of malnutrition and hidden hunger because of the poor quality of their diets. These patterns reflect a profound triple burden of malnutrition – undernutrition, hidden hunger and overweight – that threatens the survival, growth and development of children and of nations. …
The Adolescent Girls Empowerment Program (AGEP) in rural and urban Zambia aims to build social, health, and economic assets of adolescent girls. A safe spaces component is at the core of AGEP. Girls groups, under the guidance of a female mentor from the same community, provide a safe and supportive learning environment. The meetings are critical in building social assets for vulnerable girls - including friendships, self-esteem, trusting relationships with adults, and social support. …
The Ghana Cost Benefit Analysis was conducted to bring to the attention of government and other stakeholders in school feeding, the investment returns that school feeding yields, and to see school feeding not just as a cost, but as an investment in the Ghana’s human capital and the economy at large. The contribution of school feeding to improving human capital cannot be underestimated; therefore, school feeding should remain a priority for all successive government. This should be supported by legislation. …
Schools are an ideal setting for creating synergies to address malnutrition and contribute to sustainable development, in that they are able to impact education, health, food security and nutrition simultaneously through various access points and opportunities. The natural linkages between nutrition and education are widely recognized and supported by evidence. Despite this, nutrition education, one of the most direct linkages and globally recommended strategies to foster better diets and food choices, has historically been underfunded and undermined by most sectors. …
This discussion paper shows that schools offer a unique opportunity to improve nutrition using a systemic, multi-sectoral approach. Social, health, economic and ethic arguments coalesce in and around schools. Looking at schools as a (food system) to improve nutrition offers insights into what interventions to implement and combine to ensure the best possible nutrition outcomes for children in schools, their families and their communities, both now and in future.
School feeding programmes are recognized as a key part of food assistance and relief in emergency and development programmes. They are principally concerned with transfer of food to school to alleviate hunger, meet daily consumption needs and encourage attendance and retention. Home-Grown School Feeding programmes (HGSF) in particular have received attention in recent years because of the links to agricultural development and have therefore been widely viewed as a means to address food insecurity while promoting rural development goals in Africa. …
antérieures du CNA sur le sujet, en identifiant notamment les actions phares aujourd'hui mises en place par les parties prenantes. Il a ensuite défini des priorités d'actions. Le groupe de concertation a ainsi formulé 9 recommandations clés à destination des décideurs publics et privés selon deux ambitions partagées : une éducation à tous les âges de la vie pour rendre autonome et construire une vision globale de l'alimentation ; une cohérence et une complémentarité des messages.
