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Nutrition guidelines and standards (NGS) are rules and regulations designed to improve the nutritional quality, as well as the overall adequacy, of foods and meals in schools, and can therefore play an important role in ensuring the right to food for children and adolescents, particularly for the most vulnerable. 

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) are implementing the project School food nutrition guidelines and standards for safeguarding children and adolescents’ right to food to support countries with the design of a global methodology to define and implement NGS for school food. The methodology is supported by technical guidance to strengthen policies and legislation to improve the nutrition of schoolchildren in order to contribute to the realization of their right to food.  In the framework of the project, this technical webinar will focus on the importance of policy and legal frameworks for the effective implementation of nutritional standards and guidelines at school. Technical experts will outline key concepts and recommendations, and country stakeholders will illustrate how NGS have been incorporated into policies and legislation in their own contexts, showcasing lessons learned as well as the main issues and challenges encountered in the process. In particular, the event will focus on: 

• A human rights-based approach to school food and nutrition.
• The importance of coherent policies and legal frameworks for improving the nutritional quality and adequacy of school food.
• NGS as a tool to support children’s right to adequate food.

The webinar will be held in English, and live interpretation to French and Spanish will be available. Click the following link to register: https://fao.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_00yLn12nQaKxq7tEYKogwg

Mre information available here: https://www.fao.org/in-action/school-nutrition-standards-for-safeguarding-children-right-to-food/en/