Dear FSN colleagues,
Thank you for the opportunity to share best practices relating to the realization of the human right to adequate food.
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, governments created a global School Meals Coalition with the twin aims of reopening schools and of rebuilding more resilient school-based health systems. Today, 82 countries, comprising more than half the world’s population, are delivering on this response, and school-based coverage of some key school-based programmes exceeds those from January 2020.
As the first initiative of the School Meals Coalition, the Research Consortium for School Health and Nutrition aims to support governments with scaling and strengthening their national programs by 2030 by:
- Providing evidence on the effectiveness of school feeding programmes for learning, social and physical outcomes of children and youth across the world to make the case for investment in school-based health and nutrition programmes; and
- Providing policymakers with programmatic guidance on the optimal policies to be implemented with regard to health, nutrition, and education.
In response to your call for submissions, please find attached a short summary about this effort.
With best wishes,
The Research Consortium for School Health and Nutrition
The Research Consortium for School Health and Nutrition