Resources
Welcome to the Child Health Task Force Resource Library. This database hosts a range of documents from agencies and organizations working on child health programming. When using the search function, please be as specific as possible. More specific search language will return the most appropriate results. Resources are available for download for further reading and can be sent via email or other social media platforms for ease of sharing.
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Guide | English | Global | 2023
Menstruation and Its Relevance for Schools
This infographic explores menstruation and its relevance for schools and approaches to make schools menstruation friendly. This resource is intended for USAID Mission staff, including health and education officers, as well as implementing partners, ministries of health and education, donors, and school administrators for consideration during program planning and co-investing.
Menstruation Infographic Final.pdf7.92 MB
Tool | English | 2023
Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE): Foundational learning for a healthy life
This infographic explores the importance of comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) for school-aged children, its benefits, and potential entry points for health and education sectors. This resource is intended for USAID Mission staff, including health and education officers, as well as implementing partners, ministries of health and education, donors, and school administrators for consideration during program planning and co-investing.
CSE Infographic 5-15.pdf2.87 MBEvent Materials | English | 2023
Recording Ready to Learn and Thrive: School Health and Nutrition - February 14, 2023
In the recording, The Child Health Task Force, UNESCO, and the Research Consortium for School Health and Nutrition hosted a webinar to mark the publication of the joint report, Ready to Learn and Thrive: School Health and Nutrition around the World (highlights here).
Presentation | English | 2023
Ready to Learn and Thrive: School Health and Nutrition (UNESCO, LSHTM) Presentation- February 14, 2023
The Child Health Task Force, UNESCO, and the Research Consortium for School Health and Nutrition hosted a webinar to mark the publication of the joint report, Ready to Learn and Thrive: School Health and Nutrition around the World (highlights here).
Ready to Learn and Thrive: School Health and Nutrition (UNESCO, LSHTM) Presentation- February 14, 20237.37 MB
Report | English | 2022
School Meal Programs Around The World
Covering 139 countries, of which 125 had large-scale school feeding, the 2022 edition of School Meal Programs Around the World presents the results of GCNF’s second Global Survey of School Meal Programs ©, conducted from July 2021 through March 2022.
Tool | English | 2022
Mental Health Among School-Age Children & Adolescents
This infographic explores the importance of using schools as a platform to support the mental health of school-age children, and the three key areas where schools can play a critical role. This resource is intended for USAID Mission staff, including health and education officers, as well as implementing partners, ministries of health and education, donors, and school administrators for consideration during program planning and co-investing.
Infographic of Mental Health Among School-Age Children & Adolescents819.99 KB
Report | English | 2022
Brief: Why Policy Makers Should Prioritize School Health Programs
This brief commissioned by the Child Health Task Force Secretariat distills the findings from the report on Operationalizing Health and Education Coordination: Recommendations surfaced through interviews with USAID Africa Bureau Missions.
Brief: Why Policy Makers Should Prioritize School Health Programs334.19 KB
Tool | English | 2022
School as a Platform to Control Malaria: The case for cross-sectoral investment
This infographic shares evidence for using schools as a platform for malaria prevention and control. It also identifies key malaria interventions that can be delivered through schools and the respective roles of the education and health sectors. This resource is intended for USAID Mission staff, including health and education officers, as well as implementing partners, ministries of health and education, and school administrators.
Infographic on School as a Platform to Control Malaria39.02 MBEnglish | 2022
Blog: Governments across Africa are rebuilding home-grown school feeding (HGSF) programs to help their recovery from the pandemic
The Brookings Institution published a blog on Africa Day of School Feeding which discusses the role of home-grown school feeding in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Event Materials | English | 2022
How to Make Better Policies for School Meals Webinar Recording
The OECD Trade and Agriculture Directorate hosted a webinar on February 10, 2022 focused on how to overcome evidence gaps in food systems to support policy makers around the world develop better policies for food systems.
Tool | English | 2022
ADOLESCENT SCHOOL HEALTH & NUTRITION: INTERACTIVE DECISION TREES
This tool is designed to be interactive. Each decision tree is intended to be viewed as a holistic overview of the types of questions a practitioner might explore to strengthen the respective dimension of school health and nutrition. Practitioners can select which decision tree to explore by clicking on its respective box on the home page. Practitioners engage with the decision tree by answering each question. Once a practitioner selects ‘No,’ a text box appears to suggest actions to consider.
Report | English | 2022
School Health and Nutrition: Reach and Relevance for Adolescents
This brief summarizes the benefits to adolescent health and human capital formation that accrue from investments in health and nutrition interventions delivered through schools, with a focus on low- and middle-income countries.
English | 2022
Focusing Resources on Effective School Health (FRESH) framework
UNESCO's Focusing Resources on Effective School Health (FRESH) framework presents a vision for collaboration between health and other sectors working on different aspects of human development such as safety from violence & crime, equity, inclusion, relief & development aid, social and sustainable development. As the partnership continued its work, the focus on access to schooling, attendance and educational attainment increased.
Journal Article | English | Ghana | 2022
Eligibility for the use of ready-made spectacles among children in a school-based programme in Ghana
Journal article published in PLOS Global Public Health on January 27, 2022.
Report | English | 2021
World Food Programme Reviews of School-based Health and Nutrition Interventions in Eastern, Southern, and Western Africa
Evidence reviews of school health and nutrition interventions commissioned by the World Food Programme (WFP) Regional Offices in East and Central Africa (WFP Regional Bureau Nairobi), Southern Africa (WFP Regional Bureau Johannesburg), and West Africa (WFP Regional Bureau Dakar). The reports were prepared by the Centers for Learning on Evaluation and Results (CLEAR) and published in July 2021.
Event Materials | English | 2021
Webinar Recording - October 19, 2021
Recording of webinar hosted by the Re-imagining the Package of Care subgroup to share findings from a Child Health Task Force-commissioned report on operationalizing school health and nutrition investments.
English | 2021
Food for Education evidence for school feeding programs
School meals are an effective way to keep children in school and learning while there. Food for Education delivers subsidized school meals to primary schools, sourcing ingredients from local farmers and preparing meals in central kitchens to ensure all meals meet food safety standards. Schools that partner with Food for Education perform statistically better on national education exams than non-enrolled schools.
Report | English | 2021
Monitoring Adolescent School Health and Nutrition Programs and Interventions Answering The Why, What, Who, and How
This brief provides broad guidance aimed at supporting the development and implementation of monitoring mechanisms within school health and nutrition programs supported by World Bank lending.
Event Materials | English | Ghana | 2021
The Girls’ Iron Folate Tablet Supplementation (GIFTS) Program GNCP Webinar
The Global Nutrition Coordination Plan hosted a webinar to discuss the Girls Iron-Folate Tablet Supplementation (GIFTS) program impact.
English | 2021
Nutrition crisis looms as globally more than 39 billion in-school meals missed since start of COVID-19 pandemic
Press release by UNICEF and WFP from January 2021 estimating that 39 billion in-school meals have been missed since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, highlighting the important role schools play in delivering routine services to vulnerable children.