Lesotho school health and nutrition policy
The key objective of the School Health and Nutrition Policy is to guide, protect, and promote healthy measures for all learners in schools. The policy will address these key areas;
The key objective of the School Health and Nutrition Policy is to guide, protect, and promote healthy measures for all learners in schools. The policy will address these key areas;
Proponents have promoted sexuality education as a means of empowering adolescents, yet it has been thwarted in many low and middle-income countries. Nigeria represents an exception. Despite social opposition, the government in 1999 unexpectedly approved sexuality education policy.
This national SBCC strategy set out in this document is intended to guide ECD, Nutrition and WASH stakeholders by analyzing the current situation and making concrete recommendations on the target audience, key messages and communication channels. The Annex of the key interventions, which will be
In 2018, UNICEF Eastern and Southern Africa conducted a regional scoping study and deep dive to assess the status of WASH services in schools and related gaps to scale-up in the region.
The Ghana Cost Benefit Analysis was conducted to bring to the attention of government and other stakeholders in school feeding, the investment returns that school feeding yields, and to see school feeding not just as a cost, but as an investment in the Ghana’s human capital and the economy at lar
School feeding programmes are recognized as a key part of food assistance and relief in emergency and development programmes. They are principally concerned with transfer of food to school to alleviate hunger, meet daily consumption needs and encourage attendance and retention.
Interventions to keep adolescent girls and young women in school, or support their return to school, are hypothesised to also reduce HIV risk. Such interventions are included in the DREAMS combination package of evidence-based interventions.
The report demonstrates progress made on adolescent HIV programming in the Eastern and Southern African Region (ESAR) in a few short years.
These guidelines aim to inform the design and implementation of interventions with young key populations (YKP), 15-24 years, specifically young women who sell sex, young men who have sex with men, and young people who inject drugs.
There is limited experimental evidence of the impact of large-scale, government-led school meals programs on educational achievements. The authors report results from a nationwide randomized trial of the Government of Ghana’s school feeding program.