Stepping Up Effective School Health and Nutrition

TARGET GROUP: SCHOOL-AGED CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS

OBJECTIVES

·        To advance the health and nutrition of school-aged children and adolescents, so they are able to learn and grow, achieve their full potential and shape the future of their communities and countries.

·        To increase and better align investments and efforts to bring proven interventions to scale and respond to children’s learning and growth needs holistically.

·        To achieve at least ten of the Sustainable Development Goals related to

poverty (SDG1), hunger (SDG2), health (SDG3), education (SDG4), gender equality (SDG5), clean water and sanitation (SDG 6), economic growth (SDG8), reduced inequalities (SDG10), peace, justice and strong institutions (SDG16), and strengthened partnerships (SDG17).

SUMMARY

School health and nutrition is about investing both in school children and adolescents’ health and well-being and in their learning, with benefits extending to their homes and communities. When children are sick and hungry, they do not learn well. When children do not receive a quality education, they are less likely to be healthy. Further, good health, good nutrition and good education are not only rights and ends in themselves, they are an investment in a country’s future and in the capacity of its people to lead productive and satisfactory lives. This inter-relationship between education, nutrition and health calls for a more integrated, systems approach to school health and nutrition, and coordinated action to bring effective, multicomponent policies and programmes to scale.

REFERENCE

https://www.unicef.org/media/94001/file/Partnership-for-Stepping-up-effective-SHN.pdf.pdf