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.

Background: In low- and middle-income countries like Bangladesh, inadequate water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) practices lead to a higher disease burden among children and hinder their academic performance. However, there have been efforts to improve WASH between 2014 and 2018.

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.

This paper is the first to provide, in the European context, credible causal estimates for the impact on educational achievement of a means-tested programme that subsidises school lunches.

Using commune-level panel data for 11 years, we investigate whether there is a relationship between toilet facilities at primary and lower secondary schools and school enrollment rates in Cambodia. We differentiate toilet facilities by type (improved and unimproved) and by gender.

UNICEF, in partnership with the Ministry of Education and Research, conducted a comprehensive assessment of water supply, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) facilities with the participation of 968 schools, representing more than 80% of the total number of educational institutions in Moldova.

The study of the assessment of health behaviours in school-aged children aims to enhance our understanding of healthy adolescent behaviours, as well as adolescent health, and well-being in their social context.

Using the U-Report platform, this report collects perspectives from young people between the ages of 13 and 19 years about their food choices and food environments in and around their school and within their local community.

Ensuring the availability of safe and clean water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) facilities is a cornerstone of providing a conducive learning environment for students and fostering a sense of dignity and well-being.