The Philippines has one of the highest school bullying rates in the world. While its nature, causes, and impacts are well-documented in the international literature, local evidence remains limited and at times conflicting.
The activities in this Teachers' Manual for Secondary and Senior Secondary Level revolve around six different themes - Knowing your Body, Food and Nutrition, Personal, Environmental Hygiene and Sanitation Physical Fitness, Being Responsible and Safe and Behaviour and Life Skills.
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.
The school feeding policy 2024-2035 aims to provide students with safe and nutritious food to promote their physical growth and cognitive development, thereby enhancing future productivity, gender equality, and inclusion.
This comic book is a collaborative effort between the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) and UNESCO New Delhi. It signifies a significant stride towards augmenting the goals of the School Health and Wellness Programme (SHWP).
A systematic literature review was undertaken to investigate the cultural conflicts that arise in secondary school-based sexuality education programmes and how stakeholders respond to and navigate these conflicts. This review is reported according to PRISMA guidelines.
The current issue of the newsletter focuses on 'Addressing Children's Nutritional Needs and School Meal Programmes'. This issue includes articles written in this context by various experts and researchers from different member-institutions, such as Bangladesh,
As school meal programmes continue to expand globally, so too is the body of evidence from impact evaluations.
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.