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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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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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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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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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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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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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Tell Me Even More! Learning more about perceptions and attitudes to sexuality education in eight countries in sub-Saharan Africa
This report is a continuation on the Tell me More! Project from 2007, and identifies areas where additional focus is required in order to improve CSE and HIV research, policy, programming and implementation. It builds on additional primary research undert
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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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School Health and Nutrition for Every Child: Technical report
Across the developing world, millions of school-aged children are affected by illness, many serious yet easily treatable and preventable, which inhibit their ability to learn. Healthier children stay in school longer, attend more regularly, learn more and
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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