SDG 2- No Hunger: A summary of how the FRESH Framework and school programs can help to achieve and monitor this UN Goal
This summary explains how various school-based and school-linked programs support global actions to achieve this goal.
The achievement of this goal involves seven sectors; including Agriculture, Development Aid, Welfare/Social Protection, Finance/Taxation, Employment, Education and Health, The FRESH Framework and other sources enable us to identify six school programs and four multi-component approaches as well as the indicators related to those school strategies, Five global initiatives. involving schools as a key partner in achieving this goal have also been identified in this summary.
The Global Partnership for Education has noted that "recent UNESCO research in 2013 shows that there are approximately 47 million children in low-income countries who are stunted as a result of malnutrition in early childhood. If all mothers in those countries had a primary education, 1.7 million children would be saved from stunting. If those mothers had a secondary education, 12.2 million children would be saved from stunting"
This summary explains how various school-based and school-linked programs support global actions to achieve this goal.
The achievement of this goal involves seven sectors; including Agriculture, Development Aid, Welfare/Social Protection, Finance/Taxation, Employment, Education and Health, The FRESH Framework and other sources enable us to identify six school programs and four multi-component approaches as well as the indicators related to those school strategies, Five global initiatives. involving schools as a key partner in achieving this goal have also been identified in this summary.
The Global Partnership for Education has noted that "recent UNESCO research in 2013 shows that there are approximately 47 million children in low-income countries who are stunted as a result of malnutrition in early childhood. If all mothers in those countries had a primary education, 1.7 million children would be saved from stunting. If those mothers had a secondary education, 12.2 million children would be saved from stunting"
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Excerpts from UN Description of this Goal:
Goal 2 aims to end hunger and all forms of malnutrition by 2030. It also commits to universal access to safe, nutritious and sufficient food at all times of the year. This will require sustainable food production systems and resilient agricultural practices, equal access to land, technology and markets and international cooperation on investments in infrastructure and technology to boost agricultural productivity. Ending hunger and malnutrition relies heavily on sustainable food production systems and resilient agricultural practices. Since the late 1990s, the percentage of aid for supporting agriculture in developing countries has been stable at around 8 per cent, when measured as a share of aid from member countries of the OECD. This has decreased, from a peak of 20 per cent in the mid-1980s, as a result of donors beginning to focus more on improving governance, building social capital and bolstering fragile States.One of the targets for Goal 2 calls for correcting and preventing distortions in world agricultural markets, including the elimination of all forms of agricultural export subsidies. Globally, in 2014, nearly 1 in 4 children under the age of 5, an estimated total of 159 million children, had stunted growth. Stunting is defined as inadequate height for age, an indicator of the cumulative effects of under-nutrition and infection.. Read more >> |
School Approaches and Programs that address this Goal:
There are several school multi-intervention programs and single interventions that alleviate hunger. These programs are often grouped and coordinated in these multi-component approaches: These school-based and school-linked policies, programs and practices (FRESH Topic/Problem based themes) are effective in supporting this goal: The components/pillars of the FRESH Framework also address this goal in these ways: The cross-cutting themes within the FRESH Framework can be applied to this goal in these ways: Schools help students to develop these skills, beliefs, attitudes and values related to this goal: |
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Current & Recent Global/UN Initiatives to Achieve this Goal:
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Current & Recent Global School Initiatives related to this Goal:
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Overview of UN Targets for this Goal:
2.1 By 2030, end hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round 2.2 By 2030, end all forms of malnutrition, including achieving, by 2025, the internationally agreed targets on stunting and wasting in children under 5 years of age, and address the nutritional needs of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women and older persons 2.3 By 2030, double the agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers, in particular women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers, including through secure and equal access to land, other productive resources and inputs, knowledge, financial services, markets and opportunities for value addition and non-farm employment 2.4 By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality 2.5 By 2020, maintain the genetic diversity of seeds, cultivated plants and farmed and domesticated animals and their related wild species, including through soundly managed and diversified seed and plant banks at the national, regional and international levels, and promote access to and fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge, as internationally agreed 2.a Increase investment, including through enhanced international cooperation, in rural infrastructure, agricultural research and extension services, technology development and plant and livestock gene banks in order to enhance agricultural productive capacity in developing countries, in particular least developed countries 2.b Correct and prevent trade restrictions and distortions in world agricultural markets, including through the parallel elimination of all forms of agricultural export subsidies and all export measures with equivalent effect, in accordance with the mandate of the Doha Development Round 2.c Adopt measures to ensure the proper functioning of food commodity markets and their derivatives and facilitate timely access to market information, including on food reserves, in order to help limit extreme food price volatility |
School-Related Indicators from the FRESH Framework & School Programs/ Approaches
The following indicators are included in the FRESH Framework, its thematic applications on various health, social, safety and economic problems and other sources or updates on the FRESH Monitoring and Evaluation Guidance. The indicators describe the type, frequency and data sources of monitoring that can be done. As well, the FRESH Framework provides suggestions for monitoring at the national and school levels. As well, the progress being made in relation to the implementation and maintenance of these core compontents and cross-cutting themes in the FRESH Framework can be monitored in relation to this goal: These school-related organizational and systems capacities should also be monitored in relation to this goal: |