These reports are part of a series of scoping studies on Social Protection and Safety Nets for Enhanced Food Security and Nutrition in the Central Asia Region commissioned by the Â鶹ÊÓƵ in partnership with the University of Maastricht in 2017.
Â鶹ÊÓƵ piloted the implementation of Iron Fortified Rice through School Feeding in Maguindanao, Philippines. This report documents the results of the demonstrating the potential of Homegrown School Feeding as a model for scaled-up food fortification in BARMM and eventually in the whole country.
School-based programmes are one of the most extensive social safety nets worldwide, with an estimated 388 million children worldwide currently benefiting from school feeding.
The brief provides an analysis on Â鶹ÊÓƵ Emergency Operation in Cox¡¯s Bazar (Bangladesh) which have adapted to the newer challenges due to COVID-19 to continue life-saving interventions for the extremely vulnerable population. Â鶹ÊÓƵ has also ramped up its assistance to the host population which is a critical element of its operation.
An overview of Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s role as the world¡¯s leading humanitarian organization both saving and changing lives in the year it was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
The brief provides an analysis on Â鶹ÊÓƵ Emergency Operation in Cox¡¯s Bazar (Bangladesh) which have adapted to the newer challenges due to COVID-19 to continue life-saving interventions for the extremely vulnerable population. Â鶹ÊÓƵ has also ramped up its assistance to the host population which is a critical element of its operation.
Through this joint statement UNESCO, UNICEF, Â鶹ÊÓƵ and WHO are calling on global leaders to act now and invest in school health and nutrition in national and global COVID-19 recovery plans.
This decentralized evaluation was commissioned by the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Kenya Country Office and covered the Local and Regional Food Aid Procurement Programme (LRP). The programme, in collaboration with the Ministries of Education (MoE), Agriculture and Irrigation (MoA) and Health (MoH), was conducted from 2017 to 2020 in three arid countries in North-West Kenya. It was funded by the United States Department of Agriculture.?
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The evaluation was commissioned by the independent Office of Evaluation to provide evaluative evidence for accountability and learning to inform the design of the next Â鶹ÊÓƵ Country Strategic Plan (CSP) in Timor-Leste.
The evaluation was commissioned by the independent Office of Evaluation to provide evaluative evidence for accountability and learning to inform the design of the next Â鶹ÊÓƵ Country Strategic Plan (CSP) in Indonesia.
Occasional Papers are prepared by various Â鶹ÊÓƵ offices as background or reference materials ultimately leading to discussions around policy and programme activities.
The Cost of Hunger in Africa study estimates the social and economic impacts of child undernutrition and provides evidence supporting investments in human capital for sustainable development in African countries.
This document is a supplement to the Framework for reopening schools, originally published by UNICEF, UNESCO, World Bank, Â鶹ÊÓƵ, and UNHCR and provides practical guidance on how to reopen schools.
The closure of schools across the region due to the COVID-19 pandemic, has meant that large numbers of vulnerable children have been unable to access formal learning, school meals and selected nutrition and health services for extended periods. School meals provided at school contribute vital nutrients to the children¡¯s diets, while acting as a motivation for school attendance particularly for the most marginalized and needy children. Equally important is the access to basic preventive and promotive health and nutrition services, such as the delivery of iron supplements, de-worming, and oral health and nutrition checks that are provided via the school platform. Therefore, there is an urgency for putting multi-sectoral measures in place to build back better and protect and enhance the nutrition and health outcomes of school children as they return to school.
This document has been developed by Â鶹ÊÓƵ and UNICEF Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Offices and provides a non-exhaustive list of recommended multi-sectoral actions for Government, UNICEF, Â鶹ÊÓƵ and other partners to consider as part of their short and longer-term planning for and implementation of school reopening. Part one of this checklist is focused on key nutrition actions, with part two focusing on child protection, WASH, education and health actions. The actions are divided into those that should be put in place prior to schools re-opening, and after schools have opened.
In January 2020, the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) launched its new strategy in support of school health and nutrition for the school children of the world. One month later COVID-19 emerged and within weeks became a pandemic that led to 1.6 billion school children being excluded from schools globally by March 2020. School health and nutrition were always important for the growth and development of school children, but in this new COVID world they are even more important. This is a call to action: for governments, partners and Â鶹ÊÓƵ staff to help countries now to maintain care and support for the out-of-school children, and next to use school health and nutrition programmes as a key incentive for families to send their children back to school, and to build back schools better.
