Free school meals feed more than 400 million children worldwide, making them the largest social programme in history. But how effective are they? And should even more governments provide free school meals?
This school meals case study forms part of a collection led by the Research Consortium for School Health and Nutrition’s "Good Examples" Community of Practice.
Este estudio de caso sobre los programas de alimentación escolar forma parte de una colección liderada por la Comunidad de Práctica "Buenos Ejemplos" del Consorcio de Investigación para la Salud y la Nutrición Escolar.
Does a meal make a difference in the educational process? This article presents the results of the evaluation of Colombia’s School Feeding Program (PAE) on educational outcomes.
The aim of the research was to investigate the appropriateness, feasibility, acceptability, and effectiveness of activities to train and support facilitators to deliver comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) to adolescents from the age of 10 with special needs or living in circumstances in the o
Despite considerable efforts, progress in the implementation of sexuality education (SE) has been uneven.
This paper presents the results of formative research conducted from January to June 2020 in the Department of Atlántico, Caribbean region of Colombia, whose findings were used as inputs to design the national strategy for comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) outside school – Tírala Plena – in
The focus of this editorial is to consolidate and present adolescents’ and youth perspectives on the importance of tailoring out-of-school comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) programmes to the needs of marginalised youth, considering mitigation approaches implemented by the United Nations Pop
Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) is a well-established component of the package of interventions required to improve adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights.
Out-of-school CSE holds the promise of reaching those left behind. In each of the countries, locally adapted interventions consider the needs, life experiences and vulnerabilities of left-behind groups of young people.