This diagnostic tool is designed to inform country-level collective dialogue amongst Safe to Learn partners and with national counterparts. Its overall objective is to support children’s right to education and to protection from violence.
With over 400 million children reached worldwide, school meals are among the largest-scale social protection interventions.
Teen pregnancies are common in Latin America and the Caribbean and pose risks for the mother and her future family. Though it has fallen, the region has the second highest teen pregnancy rate in the world (55 births per 1,000 girls aged 15-19), after Sub-Saharan Africa (World Bank 2023a).
Adolescence is a time of significant physical and emotional change that requires tailored health approaches. Historically, the world has lacked comprehensive indicators for adolescent health.
The ECOWAS Conference on Homegrown School Feeding, titled "Investing in Homegrown School Feeding to Strengthen Human Capital, Women's Economic Empowerment, and Contribute to Economic Development," served as a pivotal gathering of over 70 technical experts and government officials.
Menstrual health and hygiene (MHH) is essential to the well-being and empowerment of women and adolescent girls.
This report presents findings from the fourth round of the Survey on National Education Responses to COVID-19 School Closures, administered between April–July 2022 with responses from Ministries of Education in 93 countries.
The sanitary and economic shocks caused by the COVID-19 pandemic brought about the most significant disruption in the history of the education sector in Latin America and the Caribbean region, leading to school closures at all levels and affecting over 170 million students throughout the region.
This report brings together 45 of the education continuity stories that were jointly documented by the OECD, the World Bank, Harvard’s Global Education Innovation Initiative and HundrED during the first wave of school closures related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
This second Global Education Evidence Advisory Panel (GEEAP) report draws on insights from the latest research to document the impacts of and responses to Covid-19.