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Brief 2 of 12 - Nutrition and Education

No nation can afford to waste its greatest national resource: the intellectual power of its people. But that is precisely what is happening where low birth weight is common,where children fail to achieve their full potential growth,where micronutrient deficiencies permanently damage the brain,and where anemia and short-term hunger limit children’s...

Published in 2002, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Document hors série 15: Faire grandir la lueur d'espoir; L'aide alimentaire comme moyen d'améliorer l'accès à l'éducation des orphelins et des autres enfants vulnérables d'Afrique subsaharienne

Ce discours revient inlassablement. Chaque nouveau rapport qui sort, chaque article publié et chaque allocution prononcée déplorent le fait qu’une génération entière soit privée des bénéfices du développement à cause de l’épidémie mondiale de SIDA. Cette vérité troublante n’est nulle part plus évidente que dans certaines parties...

Published in 2003, by PAM - WFP, Robin Landis

Documento especial 15: Avivar la “llama de la esperanza”; Uso de la ayuda alimentaria para mejorar el acceso a la educación de los huérfanos y otros niños vulnerables del África subsahariana

Lo oímos una y otra vez. Parece como si cada nuevo informe que se da a conocer, cada artículo que se publica y cada discurso que se pronuncia condenaran el hecho de que la epidemia mundial del virus de inmunodeficiencia humana (VIH) y el síndrome de inmunodeficiencia adquirida (SIDA) esté acabando con una generación de beneficios para el desarrollo. En...

Published in 2003, by PMA - WFP, Robin Landis

Feed Minds, Change Lives - School Feeding: Highlights and New Directions

Feed Minds, Change Lives is a compilation of the following most recent analytical work undertaken in 2009 on the subject of school feeding: • Learning from Experience – Good practices from 45 years of school feeding, by WFP • An Investment Case for School Feeding, by WFP and the Boston Consulting Group • Rethinking School Feeding: Social Safety...

Published in 2009, by WFP

Fifth Report on the World Nutrition Situation

The 5th Report continues the tradition of reporting on trends in nutrition throughout the life cycle and of challenging the nutrition community. But instead of asking the question: how is nutrition affected by global changes? the 5th Report asks the question more proactively: how can a nutrition perspective accelerate the attainment of a comprehensive set of...

Published in 2004, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Focusing Resources on Effective School Health: a FRESH start to enhancing the quality and equity of education

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 sector’s awareness of the value of implementing an effective school health, hygiene and nutrition programme as one of its major strategies to achieve Education...

Published in 2001, by UNESCO, WHO, UNICEF, World Bank

Food consumption in Mexican adolescents

There are groups of adolescents who are less likely to consume healthy foods (such as fruits, vegetables, and dairy products). Socioeconomic and cultural processes that can explain the differences observed are discussed. Published in: Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública / Pan American Journal of Public Health, 2008;24(2):127–35, ISSN 1020-4989, by...

Published in 2008, by PAHO, Ortiz-Hernández, Luis, Gómez-Tello Blanca Lilia

Fourth Report on the World Nutrition Situation Nutrition throughout the Life Cycle

The Fourth Report on the World Nutrition Situation is part of a series of ACC/SCN reports initiated in the mid-1980s on the nutritional status of populations in developing countries. While earlier reports have focused on regional trends in preschool undernutrition, this report is built around the theme nutrition throughout the life cycle. This change was...

Published in 2000, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Healthy growth and nutrition in children

Today more than ever, nutrition appears to be a testing ground where differences and inequalities between North and South of the world measure against each other, in particular with regards to childhood. In developed countries, if on the one hand obesity and overweight are dramatically increasing among young people, on the other adults has been affecting...

Published in 2010, by Barilla Center

Interactive Learning Exchange - Exploring Strategies to Reach and Work with Adolescents

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 such as children and adolescents. One crucial component of the healthy development of adolescents is good nutrition. Yet this population has received little...

Published in 2004, by World Bank

Linkages between nutrition, ill-health and education

This paper reviews the linkages between child health, particularly nutritional status, and education.

Published in 2008, by Devi Sridhar

Nous, les enfants - Honorer les promesses du Sommet mondial pour les enfants

Le rapport du Secrétaire général de l'ONU Kofi Annan Nous, les enfants présente les progrès accomplis dans la réalisation des objectifs fixés lors du Sommet mondial pour les enfants de 1990. Cet ouvrage est un objet de référence essentiel pour tous ceux qui s'intéressent au développement. Il souligne à la fois les succès remportés pendant la...

Published in 2001, by UNICEF

Nutrition and Health in Thailand: Trends and action

The objective of this case study is to draw important conclusions as to which programs are effective in combatting and preventing malnutrition, why, and how they are best managed. The scope goes beyond "nutrition" programs per se, however. In addition to the analysis of changes in nutritional status, the study investigates the scope of indirect actions and...

Published in 1992, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Nutrition Information in Crisis Situations - Report Number 03

The UN Standing Committee on Nutrition issues these Reports on Nutrition Information in Crisis Situations with the intention of raising awareness and facilitating action. The Reports are designed to provide information over time on key outcome indicators from emergency- affected populations, play an advocacy role in bringing the plight of emergency affected...

Published in 2004, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Nutrition Policy Discussion Paper No 08 - Managing Successful Nutrition Programmes

Because undernutrition and malnutrition are the result of different economic and social determinants, it is difficult in field studies - not being double blind, randomized and placebo controlled - to attribute significant outcomes to specific interventions. And yet the need for successful nutrition programmes is becoming more compelling. They are required by...

Published in 1991, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Nutrition Policy Discussion Paper No 12 - Nutritional Issues in Food Aid

In the past, critics of food aid have argued that it encourages dependency, both by undermining incentives to local food production as well as biasing tastes towards imported commodities. However, as we approach the mid-1990s, there is now a growing understanding that -- when managed appropriately - food aid can provide a positive boost to food security, at...

Published in 1993, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Nutrition Policy Discussion Paper No 19 - What Works? A Review of the Efficacy and Effectiveness of Nutrition Interventions

This review takes the perspective of low-income Asia, because the study was commissioned by the Asian Development Bank to inform its policy dialogue with Asian governments. We believe the review will be useful for ADB and all development partners selecting nutrition interventions as stand-alone activities or components in integrated social development...

Published in 2001, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

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 over. It seems as though every new report released, every article published and every speech delivered decries the fact that a generation of development gains is being wiped out by the global HIV/AIDS epidemic. This troubling reality is nowhere more evident than in parts of sub- Saharan Africa where the impact of the epidemic dwarfs the...

Published in 2003, by WFP, Robin Landis

Recursos Efectivos en Salud Escolar (RESE): un enfoque nuevo para mejorar la calidad y la equidad educativa

En Abril del año 2000 la Organizacion Mundial de la Salud, UNESCO, UNICEF y el Banco Mundial, colaboraron en la organización de una sesión de trabajo conjunto en el Foro Mundial Educativo desarrollado en Dakar, Senegal. Esta sesión estratégica, se propuso la meta de aumentar el interés y la concientización del sector educativo acerca del valor de...

Published in 2001, by UNESCO, OMS - WHO, UNICEF, Banco Mundial - World Bank

Review of Trends, Policies and Programmes Affecting Nutrition and Health in Egypt (1970-1990)

The main objective of this report is to review the different policies, as well as programs affecting health and nutrition status of Egyptians over the period 1970−1990. The study will attempt to outline and examine Critically the major trends in the health and nutrition status of the Egyptians in the light of: − the Egyptian socio−economic setting; ...

Published in 1992, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

School health and nutrition

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 provide school buildings, textbooks, and teachers, they decided to address the process of learning and the needs of learners. Health and nutrition were included as...

Published in 2001, by UNESCO

Schools for nutrition

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 deaths, undernutrition is an important factor. Clearly, something needs to be done to combat this emergency, and the IAEA is playing its part. With three events...

Published in 2007, by Lena Davidsson, IAEA

SCN News No 05 - Nutrition and School Performance

The education of children all over the world is being held back by malnutrition. In humanitarian terms, it makes no sense that the children who manage to get to school cannot benefit fully from their education, because they are already malnourished, because they are currently hungry, or because of infection. Nearly 90% of the world's school children will be...

Published in 1990, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

SCN News No 16 - Nutrition of the School-age Child

This feature brings together a variety of articles, and reports of two new publications on the health and nutrition of school-age children. The papers range in content from the assessment of nutritional status in school-age children, to examples of school-based nutrition and feeding programmes in different countries. The nutritional concerns of school...

Published in 1998, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

SCN News No 24 - Nutrition in the Context of Conflict and Crisis

For this issue of SCN News the Secretariat team presents the full set of papers delivered at the 29th session in Berlin in March 2002 on the theme nutrition in conflict and crisis. The symposium touched upon the politics of humanitarian aid delivery, livelihood security, and the right to food and nutrition during emergencies.

Published in 2002, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

SCN News No 25 - School-age Children: Their Health and Nutrition

This issue of SCN News features a comprehensive review of the nutrition and health status of school-age children, an initiative of the SCN Working Group on Nutrition of the School-Age Child chaired very ably during 2000-2002 by Don Bundy of the World Bank. For many decades a neglected age group, the nutritional well being of children six to 18 years reflects...

Published in 2002, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

SCN News No 31 – Adolescence: a Pivotal Stage in the Lifecycle

This issue of SCN News features articles addressing a population that receives little attention: adolescents. UNFPA’s State of World Population (2005) estimates that there are 1.2 billion adolescents between 10-19 years of age today. Although not specifically mentioned in the Millennium Development Goals, adolescents are the future adults who will continue...

Published in 2005, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

Targeting Food Aid in Emergencies - Special Supplement

This report supplement is intended to provide guidance on the design of food targeting systems in emergencies. Targeting is defined as directing a particular type or quantity of food, to a defined population group. A broad definition of emergency contexts has been used, to include rapid and slow onset emergencies and responses aimed at emergency...

Published in 2004, by Emergency Nutrition Network

The Improvement in Child Nutritional Status in Brazil: How did it occur

This paper provides an overall picture of the twenty−year period between 1970 and 1989 provided by macroeconomic indicators and demographic variables. In the third part we will detail the trends in child nutritional status.

Published in 1993, by UN Standing Committee on Nutrition

The World Bank's Nutrition Toolkit

The World Bank's Nutrition Toolkit aims to help World Bank staff design and supervise effective and feasible nutrition projects and project components and to carry out comprehensive analysis of sectoral and policy issues affecting nutrition.

Published in 2009, by World Bank

Two Minutes to Learn About School Meals

Brief on WFP's School Meals programme.

Published in 2009, by WFP

We the Children - Meeting the promises of the World Summit for Children

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's We the Children is a landmark review of the progress made in meeting the commitments of the 1990 World Summit for Children. An essential reference and guide for anyone interested in development, the report assesses the decade's achievements and its setbacks, highlights best practices and lessons learned, describes the...

Published in 2001, by UNICEF