Nutrition through lifecycle
Youth - Adolescent
An “anchored” education promises better results
01/02/2011 - Governmental efforts aimed at rural children and youth can be more effective if the departments of education and agriculture co-ordinate their goals and policies. Several schools in Ecuador have [...]
Schools for nutrition
15/09/2007 - Out of ten children born in developing countries, one will die before his or her fifth birthday, for a disturbing total of more than 10 million young lives lost each year. In more than half of these [...]
Interactive Learning Exchange - Exploring Strategies to Reach and Work with Adolescents
01/08/2004 - Within the framework of achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the World Bank and its partners are working with countries to address health and development problems of vulnerable groups [...]
Using Food Aid to Improve Access to Education for Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children in Sub-Saharan Africa
31/03/2004 - Occasional Paper 15: Widening the ‘Window of Hope’; Using Food Aid to Improve Access to Education for Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children in Sub-Saharan Africa. We hear it over and [...]
School health and nutrition
01/05/2001 - In March 1990, world leaders gathered in Jomtien, Thailand, for the World Conference on Education for All (EFA): Meeting Basic Learning Needs. Rather than focus on the traditional issues of how to [...]
Focusing Resources on Effective School Health: a FRESH start to enhancing the quality and equity of education
01/07/2000 - In April, 2000, WHO, UNESCO, UNICEF, and the World Bank jointly organized a strategy session at the World Education Forum in Dakar, Senegal. The strategy session was aimed at raising the education [...]
Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict
25/05/2000 - The protocol sets 18 as the minimum age for direct participation in hostilities, for recruitment into armed groups, and for compulsory recruitment by governments. States may accept volunteers from the [...]
Convention on the Rights of the Child
20/11/1989 - This convention bans discrimination against children and provides for special protection and rights appropriate to minors. The preamble recalls the basic principles of the United Nations and specific [...]