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.
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.
Rwanda’s National School Feeding Programme has expanded rapidly within very few years. Based on the National Comprehensive School Feeding Policy of 2019, the programme provides hot meals to all students in all public or government-supported pre-primary, primary and secondary schools since 2020.
This policy brief aims to analyse the unique challenges faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer (LGBTIQ) adolescents and how the experiences of these unique challenges are linked to the overall sexual and reproductive health challenges of adolescents in general.
The 2022-2030 National Youth Friendly Health Services Strategy follows the expiry of the 2015–2020 Strategy which was being implemented for the past five years.
Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) is seen as a key instrument through which to affect behaviour and improve sexual and reproductive health (SRH) outcomes amongst adolescents. However, few studies have to date evaluated key SRH outcomes following exposure to CSE within a school setting.
Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) is critical in addressing negative sexual and reproductive health (SRH) outcomes among adolescents.
The Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP) provides public primary school pupils with a free daily meal. Each meal is expected to follow set menus, providing 30% of children’s’ (6-12 years) energy requirements.
This summary brings together evidence from 49 WFP-commissioned independent evaluations, which cover the period 2018-2023 and were rated ‘satisfactory’ or above by WFP’s external post hoc quality assessment (PHQA).
Teenage pregnancy remains a critical public health issue in developing countries, significantly impacting maternal health. In Kenya, despite an expected decrease in teenage pregnancy rates from 18% in 2014 to 15% in 2022, evidence on its prevalence and associated factors is still limited.