santé scolaire

This document, developed for, and in collaboration with, the Pan-Canadian Joint Consortium for School Health (JCSH), outlines a set of Canadian Standards and Indicators for HPS.

Public policies often aim to improve welfare, economic injustice and reduce inequality, particularly in the social protection, labour, health and education sectors. While these policies frequently operate in silos, the education sphere can operate as a cross-sectoral link.

Since its launch in 2011, 59 governments have used the World Bank’s Systems Approach for Better Education Results (SABER) policy tool to design their national school-based health and nutrition programs.

Taking into considerations risks of malnutrition and opportunity to address the issues amongst school-age children, particularly given the rising double burden of malnutrition, additional investment to prevent undernutrition and overweight amongst this target group is required.

Children are the most vulnerable to the intersecting crises of poverty, hunger, poor health and education, and climate change. Hundreds of millions of children live in poverty and malnutrition; 240M of them are out of school, and 1B are at high risk from the climate crisis.

The reciprocal relationship between education and health is well established, emphasizing the need for integrating health, nutrition, and wellbeing components into educational sector planning.

This guideline focuses on three major areas of implementation which include health services, healthful school environment and health education. It specifies policy statements or provisions which cover broad programme areas as well as specific area reflected in the context of thematic areas.

The Operational Guidelines are structured following a clear logic: The present section 1 explains the background for the Guidelines, to ensure that all users have the same understanding on the purpose of school feeding in Rwanda, and the intended way to achieve it.

This policy aims to contribute to improving quality of education and giving learners and educational personnel access to good health and welfare services to become human resources of high potential.

Overall, this study synthesises the outcomes of and multi-sectoral returns from school feeding in AU member states.