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School Health and Nutrition (SHN)
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Save the Children Global Nutrition Factsheet 2018
The global Nutrition factsheet summarises Save the Children's nutrition approach, advocacy, programming and research work around the world for 2018. It also includes links to Save the Children recent publications School Health & Nutrition
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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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FRESH School Health and Nutrition (SHN) Webinar: Home Grown School Feeding- October 2018
Can Preschools or Early Childhood Development (ECD) Centers be a venue for promoting nutritious food consumption among young children? Can an integrated agriculture and nutrition intervention through an ECD center benefit children’s diet and reduce stunti
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Improving Child Nutrition and Development through Preschools in Malawi
Some 12,000 community preschools in Malawi serve 45 percent of the county’s preschool population. Yet, because of food insecurity and communities’ difficulties in providing preschoolers with a midmorning meal, these schools may not survive. To address thi
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Nutrition: 10 messages for children to learn and share
This poster provides 10 key messages about nutrition adapted for children. The second page contains Frequently Asked Questions on how the infographic can be adapted and used. School Health & Nutrition
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Istwa Terèz ak Toni
“Terez ak Toni” is a flipchart material for teachers to use for hygiene education in Haitian Creole. It contains a story about a girl, “Terez”, who eats without washing her hands and becomes very ill because a bad microbe gets into her stomach. She then s
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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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Operation and Maintenance Financing for School WASH Facilities in Honduras
This is a case study on the financing for the operation and maintenance (O&M) of school WASH facilities in Honduras, based on a review of documents, key informant interviews and visits to 12 rural primary schools in Tegucigalpa province. In Honduras, the
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Improving Child Nutrition and Development Through Community-based Childcare Centres in Malawi- The NEEP-IE study: Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
The Nutrition Embedded Evaluation Programme Impact Evaluation (NEEP-IE) study is a cluster randomised controlled trial designed to evaluate the impact of a childcare centre-based integrated nutritional and agricultural intervention on the diets, nutrition
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Disease Control Priorities (3rd Edition)
From its inception, the Disease Control Priorities series has focused attention on delivering efficacious health interventions that can result in dramatic reductions in mortality and disability at relatively modest cost. The approach has been multidiscipl