Investing in Social and Behaviour Change (SBC) for education is a powerful opportunity to deliver measurable results and transform children’s lives. Through targeted interventions, UNICEF works to shift harmful norms, promote positive discipline, and create inclusive, safe school environments.
Free school meals feed more than 400 million children worldwide, making them the largest social programme in history. But how effective are they? And should even more governments provide free school meals?
2025 has seen the publication of new Government Relationships, Sex and Health Education (RSHE) guidance.
Healthy, safe and inclusive learning environments are a foundation for quality education. This briefing note makes the case for integrating health and well-being into education policy and planning so that all learners can learn, thrive and reach their full potential.
UNICEF and partners are working to spark global action to help young people thrive, empowering governments, children, youth, their caregivers and communities with the training, tools and support they need to experience good mental health and psychosocial well-being.
Across 13 countries, 1,235 children shared their experiences of school meals with child researchers. Their voices carried a clear message: school meals matter to us.
This youth-led policy brief, supported by Plan International’s She Leads project, examines the pressing issue of cyberbullying across Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon.
This brief focuses on specific advocacy and communications opportunities at the Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit held in Paris, 27-28 March 2025.
The messages in this book are about taking individual ingredients on a grander scale, like education, biodiversity and food sustainability, and blending them to transform our relationship with nutrition.
Every year, on March 1st, Africa unites to celebrate the African Day of School Feeding (ADSF), underscoring the transformative role of school meals in education, nutrition, and socio-economic development across the continent.