School meals, social protection and human development: revisiting trends, evidence, and practices in South Asia and beyond
With over 400 million children reached worldwide, school meals are among the largest-scale social protection interventions.
With over 400 million children reached worldwide, school meals are among the largest-scale social protection interventions.
Taking into considerations risks of malnutrition and opportunity to address the issues amongst school-age children, particularly given the rising double burden of malnutrition, additional investment to prevent undernutrition and overweight amongst this target group is required.
An assessment of the compulsory curriculum in the Republic of Moldova was carried out in 2021, the results of which were compared with those of a similar assessment conducted four years earlier, in 2017.
Kyrgyzstan’s education system was assessed in 2021 and 2022. The assessment highlighted that, despite Kyrgyzstan’s favourable legal framework, students have limited access to sexuality education, with none provided to children aged 5–8.
Comprehensive sexuality education is crucial for helping young people develop healthy sexual behaviours, respectful relationships and an understanding of their rights.
A review of Georgia’s education system conducted in 2021 and 2022 revealed significant shortcomings in the representation of comprehensive sexuality education within the general education system.
Youth Next Level is a suite of resources that provides concrete guidance and recommendations on how to effectively support the scale-up of youth-led HIV responses and accelerate the achievement of Result Area 7 of the Global AIDS Strategy and the 30-80-60 community leadership targets of the 2021
This summary brings together evidence from 10 evaluations. The evaluations comprised a large volume of both quantitative and qualitative evidence on school feeding in Cambodia and were completed from 2018-2023. The synthesis was conducted from January-March 2024.
This toolkit provides practical guidance for those seeking to incorporate a human rights-based approach to sexual and reproductive health in the context of universal health coverage (UHC).
The WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) produces internationally comparable estimates of progress on drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and is responsible for monitoring the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets related to WASH.