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
The purpose of this strategy is to provide a policy and programming framework for SADC Member States to accelerate the attainment of sexual and reproductive health and rights for all people living in the SADC region.
School feeding is essential for promoting education, health, peace and social cohesion. At a time when countries and their partners are evaluating strategies to reduce chronic malnutrition, malnutrition and poverty, the discussion of school feeding models becomes imperative.
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.