Sri Lanka school feeding: SABER country report 2015
This report presents an assessment of school feeding policies and institutions that affect young children in Sri Lanka.
This report presents an assessment of school feeding policies and institutions that affect young children in Sri Lanka.
In the United States, more than 54 million young people are enrolled in elementary and secondary schools.
Costa Rica’s School Child and Adolescent Food and Nutrition Programme (PANEA) is an example of a consolidated school feeding programme mostly funded by the central government and managed at school level by School Education Boards.
Today, Bolivia offers an example of a highly decentralised approach to school feeding as there is not yet a national program.
Schools, health agencies, parents, and communities share a common goal of supporting the link between healthy eating, physical activity, and improved academic achievement of children and adolescents.
In this paper, the policy platform is documented as well as the type, coverage and the effect of the school health and nutrition interventions, followed by the key areas identified for development and learning of the School Health Promotion Program (SHPP).
This paper engages in the debate on the effects of children’s health on their education in later life stages in low- and middle-income countries.
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The experiences girls face at school in Bolivia during menstruation had never been formally researched before this project. Data collection in Bolivia was part of a multi-country assessment of the challenges girls face in schools that included the Philippines, Rwanda and Sierra Leone.