What’s on the menu? A review of school meal quality across 29 countries
This study evaluates global school meal quality through nutrient composition analyses and the Global Diet Quality Score (GDQS)-Meal and -Menu metrics.
This study evaluates global school meal quality through nutrient composition analyses and the Global Diet Quality Score (GDQS)-Meal and -Menu metrics.
UNAIDS uses ‘cost of inaction’ as an indicator of the negative impact on the lives of people and communities of not investing resources to end AIDS.
This study critically examines Tanzania's re-entry programme for teenage mothers through a critical theory lens, arguing that formal policy inclusion masks continued structural marginalization.
Ghana's School Re-entry Policy provides for the right of adolescent mothers to return to school after childbirth. However, pregnancy continues to be a significant cause of school dropout. Limited evidence is available on the experiences among young mothers of this policy in practice.
This school meals case study forms part of a collection led by the Research Consortium for School Health and Nutrition’s "Good Examples" Community of Practice.
The Nourish programme is School Food Matters’ flagship school food improvement programme that supports schools to create a food environment that puts children and young people’s nutrition first.
Chatbots are increasingly used in digital health to expand access to information and support user engagement.
Many young people with disabilities remain excluded from sexuality education, increasing their vulnerability to abuse, exploitation, sexually transmitted infections, and unintended pregnancy.
This policy brief shows how improving the quality of food leads to more children eating school food and demonstrates that this is what young people need. The briefing brings together two powerful bodies of evidence to make that case.
We describe the development of the Whole School Food Approach framework and its implementation in 12 European countries participating in the European-funded project, SchoolFood4Change. The framework was developed in 2022 by a multidisciplinary team following an evidence-based approach.