Webinar Series and Other Activities on School Health & Nutrition Programs in Low Resource Countries

Several members of the FRESH Partnership are working together to gather, summarize and share knowledge about basic education, health and development programs in low resource countries. Lead organizations in this series of activities include Save the Children, Partnership for Child Development, International School Health Network, UNESCO, including the UNESCO Clearinghouse, UNODC and others. We are pleased to offer the series of webinars listed below. The series is also being supported by resources and reports selected from the UNESCO Health Education Clearinghouse, the PCD Documents and Resources Collection and the development of a corresponding series of Wikipedia style summaries on the topics discussed, an extensive Bibliography/Toolbox and other online resources.Please join us online in the live sessions each month or view the recorded webinars at your leisure.

For a complete list and access to the recordings, slides, readings and suggested resources from the previous webinars in this series on Low Resource Countries, go to our Webinars/Web Meetings page.

Upcoming Webinars/Web Meetings on Low Resource Countries

News/Announcements

• Read and comment on the FRESH Consensus Statement on Promoting Educational Success, Health & Development in Low Resource Countries
• Read this summary of what we know about preventing alcohol & tobacco use in low resource countries
  

Date/Time

Session Description

Recordings/Readings/Resources

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Monday 15 October 2018
(14:00, London, UK, 9:00 am Washington DC,)

Preschools as a Platform for Improving Diet and Reducing Stunting

• Aulo Gelli, Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute

Can Preschools or Early Childhood Development (ECD) Centers be a venue for promoting nutritious food consumption among young children?
Can an integrated agriculture and nutrition intervention through an ECD center benefit children’s diet and reduce stunting? 
What are the various implications of introducing such interventions in preschools?
Commemorating World Food Day 2018 and its vision of a #ZeroHunger World by 2030, we welcome the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) to share global evidence and findings from a recent study in Malawi supporting the nexus between nutrition and young child development.

To access the webinar on the day of the session, this Participants Link will be active about 15 minutes before the start of webinar.

Suggested Readings/Resources

• Using a Community-Based Early Childhood Development Center as a Platform to Promote Production and Consumption Diversity Increases Children’s Dietary Intake and Reduces Stunting in Malawi: A Cluster-Randomized Trial
• Alderman H, Fernald L (2017) The Nexus between Nutrition and Early Childhood Development. Annual Review of Nutrition. Vol. 37:447-476
• WFP, Home Grown School Feeding: A Framework to Link School Feeding with Local Agriculture Production. 
• Save the Children (2016) Preschool health and nutrition: guidance for program managers
• Kristjannson et al (2016) Costs, and cost-outcome of school feeding programmes and feeding programmes for young children. Evidence and recommendations
• International School Health Network (2018) Bibliography/Toolbox on Healthy Diet & Schools (In Progress)