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Emerging Research on School Health and Nutrition
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Value for money
This indicator aims to quantify the returns of national school meal programmes across multiple sectors, including education, health, social protection, and agriculture. The economic methodology and analyses build upon the global model previously developed jointly by World Food Programme, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and the Research Consortium for School Health and Nutrition. The study is currently being finalised in eight African countries that is, Malawi, Niger, Cote D’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Burundi, Namibia, Sierra Leone, and Mozambique.
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BOND-KIDS
Biomarkers of Nutrition for Development-Knowledge Indicating Dietary Sufficiency (BOND-KIDS)
School-age (between 5 and 19 years) represents a range of critical stages in both physical and neurological development. Each developmental stage is nutritionally sensitive and demands food security, ensuring stable access to and availability of a high-quality diet to meet nutritional requirements. The BOND programme, an international collaboration led by the Paediatric Growth and Nutrition Branch of the US Department of Health and Human Services, began in 2010 with a focus on discovery, development, and implementation of reliable and valid biomarkers to assess nutrient exposure, status, function, and effect. The BOND-KIDS project continues the effort to understand and harmonize biomarkers with a focus on school-age children, to address a range of issues impacting the domestic and global food and nutrition enterprise, including food insecurity.
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