This Policy articulates the federal government’s long-term vision for a national school food program in Canada. It presents a set of principles – the core values that will guide work towards this vision – and key objectives, which outline how these principles can be put into action.
The school feeding policy 2024-2035 aims to provide students with safe and nutritious food to promote their physical growth and cognitive development, thereby enhancing future productivity, gender equality, and inclusion.
In 2019, the Government of Rwanda approved the National Comprehensive School Feeding Policy which established multisectoral objectives of school feeding, and aims at achieving universal coverage of all students in pre-primary, primary and secondary schools in the country within a few years.
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.
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.