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Children and Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: Setting the foundation for an empowered youth
Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) is a rights based and gender transformative approach to enhance adolescent knowledge and skills around sexuality, with the goal of enabling young people to make informed desicions and choices. It is largely focused
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Our First Baby: Health education for adolescents who are pregnant or first-time parents
The Our First Baby Facilitator’s Guide contains nine participatory sessions to be used in small group sessions with first-time mothers and their male partners. Sessions covered fertility, antenatal care, care of the mother during pregnancy, first-time fat
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How to Improve Health and Learning in School-Age Children
Common childhood health conditions have a consequence on children's education, and ultimately a longer-term effect on their society's prosperity and development as a whole. Schools are a great platform for health interventions, it is cheap, safe, and cost
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School Health and Nutrition Program Update: Issue 14- 2018
2018 marked the 20th year of SHN programming at Save the Children. In 1998, Save the Children made a commitment to SHN and piloted SHN programming using Child Sponsorship funding. It is exciting to know that those pilot programs proved so significant and
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The FRESH School Health and Nutrition (SHN) Webinar Series
The School Health and Nutrition webinar series provides monthly presentations by leading policy-makers, researchers and implementers engaged in improving the health and education of children in low and middle-income countries across the globe. The webina
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School Health and Nutrition Program Update: Issue 13- 2017
Despite the many changes in the world affecting the landscape of School Health and Nutrition (SHN), the programme had a productive year. They co-hosted a regional gathering of many of Save the Children's SHN practitioners in Manila together with Save the
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Education Sector Responses to the use of Alcohol, Tobacco and Drugs
This booklet provides the context and rationale for improved education sector responses to the use of alcohol, tobacco, and drugs among children and young people, with a focus on primary and secondary education sectors. It presents evidence-
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Preschool Health and Nutrition: Guidance for Program Managers
The early years of life constitute a critical period during which foundational skills become established. Children learn and develop in predictable sequences, with later abilities, skills, and knowledge building on those already acquired. Offering quality
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Common Approach to Sponsorship Programming: The School Health and Nutrition (SHN) Program
Save the Children raises funds from sponsors to ensure that children are educated and healthy, the funds gathered from these efforts are allocated to specific country offices who implement the sponsorship-funded programmes. To ensure that programmes reach
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Health Boost Pilot in Shishuder Jonno Program
Save the Children has been implementing the Shishuder Jonno (SJ) programme in Meherpur district since 2008, through the School Health and Nutrition Programme (SHN) which aims to improve the health and educational status of school-age children. Acknowledgi
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School Health and Nutrition Program Update: Issue 12- 2016
2015 to 2016 was a very exciting time for the School Health and Nutrition Program: they reached 4 million children in 44 countries. School Health and Nutrition (SHN) are interventions that aim to improve the health and nutrition of school-age children, th
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School Health and Nutrition for Every Child: Meeting report
Save the Children hosts a global learning workshop about every three years for School Health and Nutrition (SHN) practitioners worldwide. In 2016, the event brought together staff from Save the Children’s Members and Country Offices, representatives from