The WFP’s School Meals Policy updates the 2013 version, highlighting the transformative potential of national school meal programmes in addressing critical global challenges. This includes helping children be healthier and learn better, fostering sustainable development and food system reform.
This National Safe Schools policy sets out how the Government, schools and community can work together to ensure the protection of children and students from harm or risk of harm caused by others.
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
On 23 February 2024 Education and Higher Education Ministers agreed to and released the Action Plan Addressing Gender-based Violence in Higher Education. This Action Plan aims to create higher education communities free from gender-based violence.
The announcement in 2023 of a new policy to provide free school meals to every primary aged child in state-funded schools in London was a significant milestone in school food policy in England. It meant that an additional 270,000 children across London were newly entitled.
This technical brief outlines key policy and programme landscape, trends and challenges related to adolescent pregnancy in South Asia.
This policy brief outlines the importance of teacher and education support personnel (ESP) wellbeing to high quality education.
The High-level Panel on the Teaching Profession was convened by the United Nations Secretary General in response to the global teacher shortage. The Panel brought together academics, ministers, former presidents, and teachers and students and their unions.
In Bhutan, WFP partners with the Ministry of Education and Skills Development (MoESD), the Ministry of Health (MoH), and the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MoAL) to create an enabling environment for healthier school nutrition and improved nutritional status for Bhutanese schoolchildren.
This policy paper positions Home-Grown School Feeding (HGSF) as a transformative, Africa-led approach to advancing resilience across the continent, applying lessons learned from the Millennium Development Goals era.