An interactive experience: The State of School Feeding Worldwide 2022

This is the interactive version of WFP’s flagship publication and main reporting mechanism of the School Meals Coalition, which provides an overview of how countries support their children through effective school meal programmes.

The State of School Feeding Worldwide publication is issued every two years and uses the best available data sources to provide an overview of coverage, implementation practices and costs of school-based health and nutrition programmes worldwide.

School Food and Nutrition. Boosting school-based policies and programmes for an enhanced impact on child nutrition, community development and local food system transformation

This note summarizes FAO's approach to School Food and Nutrition highlighting the issues addressed, the main strategies and the expected results of implementing such approaches.

FAO School Food and Nutrition Framework

The FAO School Food and Nutrition Framework aims to support governments and institutions in developing, transforming or strengthening their school policies, programmes and other initiatives for an enhanced and synergistic impact on diets, child and adolescent nutrition, community socioeconomic development and local food systems.

School Food and Nutrition – Global Action Plan 2022–2026

The School food and nutrition - Global action plan seeks to consolidate and guide FAO’s synergistic efforts, setting out priority and concrete outputs to be achieved by 2026. Key activities are presented in the plan and organized in four action areas, prioritized based on identified gaps and needs, and considering the Organization’s technical competence and organizational comparative advantage. Such activities are meant to be adapted, contextualized and implemented according to regional and national priorities.

This publication is the result of a collective effort, and includes contributions from relevant technical units of FAO across global, regional and country levels. The development of this plan follows the publication and dissemination of the Organization’s School Food and Nutrition Framework, and provides the implementation roadmap to attain its expected results.

A Chance for every Schoolchild - WFP School Feeding Strategy 2020 - 2030

In this strategy (2020 – 2030) WFP lays out its vision of working with governments and partners to jointly ensure that all primary schoolchildren have access to good quality meals in school, accompanied by a broader integrated package of health and nutrition services.

The State of School Feeding Worldwide 2022

What Works: School Meals Programs

Note prepared by the Sustainable Finance Initiative of the School Meals Coalition, at the request of the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office of the United Kingdom through the initiative’s partnership with the What Works Hub.

Nutrition, for Every Child: UNICEF Nutrition Strategy 2020-2030

This document outlines UNICEF's strategic intent to support national governments and partners in upholding children's right to nutrition, and ending malnutrition in all its forms over the next decade.

The State of the World’s Children 2019. Children, food and nutrition: Growing well in a changing world

This UNICEF flagship report examines the issue of children, food and nutrition, providing a fresh perspective on a rapidly evolving challenge. The report's accompanying regional briefs set out regional data, key messages, a case study and policy recommendations.

Nutrition in Middle Childhood and Adolescence

This Guidance articulates UNICEF’s programme priorities for children during middle childhood and adolescence, in line with the UNICEF Nutrition Strategy 2020–2030, and provides technical and operational guidance for the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of these priorities.

School nutrition: An inventory of the United Nations System global guidance, resources and tools on school nutrition

This inventory takes stock on the most up to date guidance, tools and resources from United Nations agencies in collaboration with their partner organizations to advance the school nutrition agenda and provides a quick reference tool for anyone looking to take action on school nutrition.

Ready to learn and thrive: school health and nutrition around the world

The report brings together, for the first time, multiple data sources to provide a global overview of school health and nutrition policies and programmes, showing that these are a practical and affordable way to support learners’ well-being and development. 

How school systems can improve health and well-being | Nutrition

This topic brief highlights how nutrition and healthy diets support the achievement of education and learning objectives, and explains how intervention benefits can be amplified with a whole-school and systems approach. The recommended actions are informed by the Global Standards for health-promoting schools. This evidence-informed resource is intended for national education, health and associated sectors to support the strengthening of national school health programmes.

Stepping up effective school health and nutrition

Health and nutrition form a foundation for education. Healthy, well-nourished children and adolescents learn better, and as adults they lead healthier and more productive lives. Therefore, investing in the health, nutrition and well-being of learners is as important as investing in education provision to achieve inclusive and equitable quality education. This transformation yields a triple dividend by impacting the lives of school children and adolescents today, their adulthood, and the generation of children to come.

Schools as a System to Improve Nutrition

This discussion paper shows that schools offer a unique opportunity to improve nutrition using a systemic, multi-sectoral approach, and offers insights into what interventions to implement and combine to ensure the best possible nutrition outcomes for children in schools, their families and their communities, both now and in future.

Nutrition in Middle Childhood and Adolescence

This Guidance articulates UNICEF’s programme priorities for children during middle childhood and adolescence, in line with the UNICEF Nutrition Strategy 2020–2030, and provides technical and operational guidance for the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of these priorities.