This scorecard is a high-level strategic tool to track progress at a political level across the SADC region in the implementation of the strategy of SRHR 2019-2030 against core indicators. The Milestone 2023 Scorecard tracks the second of five milestones.
Schools conduct numerous activities daily that help promote the health and well-being of students, families and communities.
The second ECOWAS Regional Technical Conference on Homegrown School Feeding (HGSF), held in Dakar from May 21–23, 2024, brought together around 120 participants from ECOWAS and non-ECOWAS countries, alongside partners from international organizations and major financial institutions like the IsDB
Nos últimos anos, países de língua portuguesa avançaram em boas práticas na alimentação escolar, combatendo a desnutrição, a má nutrição e a pobreza.
Brazil has one of the largest national school feeding programmes in the world, serving cooked meals daily to around 40 million students across the country.
Gardens play a fundamental role in school feeding programmes, since they function as a strategic tool for food and nutrition education (FNE), contributing to the formation of healthy and sustainable eating habits for students and the entire school community.
Key messages:
Teenage pregnancy rates in Brazil are amongst the highest in Latin America.
Significant evidence associates teenage pregnancy with school dropout, lower educational outcomes, poor maternal and infant health, and higher poverty rates.
This toolkit has three parts. Part one provides a brief introduction to school meal programmes including how meals are provided and funded and the difference between universal and targeted eligibility for free or subsidised school meals.
In Mozambique, adolescent girls and women who are pregnant or parenting have long faced serious barriers and challenges to remain in school.
In a bid to achieve the global target to end AIDS by 2030, the National AIDS Council (NAC) in Zimbabwe and the Ministry of Health and Child Care (MoHCC), coalesced with Adolescents and Young People (AYP) to help join the fight against the pandemic.