The activities in this Teachers' Manual for Secondary and Senior Secondary Level revolve around six different themes - Knowing your Body, Food and Nutrition, Personal, Environmental Hygiene and Sanitation Physical Fitness, Being Responsible and Safe and Behaviour and Life Skills.
Adolescence is a vulnerable period for the onset of mental disorders and risk behaviours. Whole‐school interventions hold vast potential in improving mental health and preventing risk behaviours in this developmentally‐sensitive cohort.
In 2024, UNICEF and WFP came together to assess the extent of their collaboration on school health and nutrition in Eastern and Southern Africa.
This report presents the results from an impact evaluation conducted in the context of the WFP school meals programme in The Gambia. The evaluation took place in the context of the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) -financed Home-Grown School Feeding Programme.
South Asia is home to an estimated 172 million adolescent girls aged 10–19 years, the largest cohort of any region globally. This report analyses the most recent data on the region's critical nutrition challenges girls face.
Since the onset of COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a significant rise in student absenteeism in the US and elsewhere. Meanwhile, food insecurity remains a persistent issue across the globe, including in the US.
Schools play a key role in providing safe, nurturing environments that lay the foundation for learners to grow, learn and become healthy, educated, engaged citizens.
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.
School meal programs aim to address multiple objectives, most commonly to improve children’s nutrition and health and to meet education goals by facilitating and incentivizing children’s school attendance and learning.
This memo addresses the case for a new financing coordination mechanism with a remit to align and mobilize additional financing in support of national efforts to expand the reach and improve the quality of school meal programs.