This policy underscores Nigeria's commitment to creating a safe educational environment, consistent with global standards as outlined in international agreements such as the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

This handbook seeks to provide learners, headteachers, teachers, schools, and learning centre managers with practical strategies to prevent and address school-based violence, ensuring a safer, more inclusive environment for all learners.

Across 13 countries, 1,235 children shared their experiences of school meals with child researchers. Their voices carried a clear message: school meals matter to us.

This review aims to identify the main determinants of various sexual behaviors among in-school and out-of-school adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa, using Bronfenbrenner’s ecological system theory as a framework.

Education has been recognized as a crucial driver of development throughout the history. This study evaluates the link between nutrition and student academic performance in mathematics and reading using the propensity score matching (PSM) method.

In 2014, the Zambian government introduced the Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) framework, decentralising its implementation from the national to the provincial administration.

This study investigated the factors predicting resilience among teenage mothers reintegrated into schools in Zimbabwe.

UNESCO commissioned a study to explore how national comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) programmes affect learners’ relationships in five countries: Argentina, Armenia, Lao PDR, Namibia and Nigeria. This study had two objectives: 

Adolescent parenthood is a significant issue in Sub-Saharan Africa, which can have adverse effects on mothers, their children and families.

Drawing on over two decades of data, Young Lives is one of the few studies collecting longitudinal data on mental health in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), including in conflict-affected regions of Ethiopia, providing a holistic, life-course perspective of risk factors and effective stra