Headline : School nutrition standards for safeguarding childrens right to food

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The project aims to improve children’s diets, through the adoption of nutrition guidelines and standards within national school food programmes and policies, and through the promotion of effective food education strategies and complementary food environment interventions in school systems. The project is also focused on integrating such standards and complementary measures into national legal frameworks and promoting social control mechanisms, in order to support the right to food of schoolchildren and adolescents.

Every day, millions of children and adolescents consume foods during school hours, and in many vulnerable countries a school meal constitutes a significant part of their diet: it is therefore essential that the food available in schools responds to children’s nutrition priorities and is aligned with the possibilities of their local food systems.

Nutrition guidelines and standards (NGS) are rules, principles and recommendations designed to improve the nutritional quality and quantity, as well as the adequacy, of foods and meals in schools. NGS go beyond setting nutrient-based targets, and require specific processes to be effective, including the collection and analysis of individual food consumption data, the understanding of the value chain and procurement possibilities, the acknowledgement of regional and local consumption patterns, among others.

NGS therefore have the potential to support the right to food of these often-vulnerable groups; however, the necessary processes are resource-intensive, require technical capacities and involve the coordination of different sectors: many low- and middle-income countries cannot undertake this or have some nutrition criteria that need revision. To date, there are no clear processes to develop effective nutrition guidelines and standards and no internationally-recognized methodology to do so. This project is meant to address these gaps.

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