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The Partnership for Child Development, formed in 1992, is an organisation committed to improving the education, health and nutrition of school-age children and youth in low income countries. PCD is based within the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, in the Faculty of Medicine, at London’s Imperial College. The organisation helps countries and international agencies turn the findings of evidence based research into national interventions that benefit millions of children around the world. Healthy children learn better and school health and nutrition programming is recognised to improve not only children’s health and nutrition, but also their education and life choices; both in the short and longer term.
The Schools and Health Website is a global site for the dissemination of knowledge on effective school health strategies, promotion and strengthening of communication, and cross-sectoral partnerships.
The West Africa Network of Ministry of Education HIV/SIDA Focal Points in ECOWAS and Mauritania. The objective of the network is to accelerate the education sector response to HIV/AIDS in the ECOWAS Region and Mauritania through stronger and better quality actions at the national levels through the creation of a framework to share information and experiences and proposition of guidelines, the promotion of good practices, the information of the Conference of MoE of ECOWAS and Mauritania on the progress of the education sector response to HIV/AIDS in the region, advocacy for a broad-based commitment and support to the education response to fight HIV/AIDS (in ECOWAS and Mauritania) and the development of Focal Points' capacity and the monitoring of progress.
The Eastern Africa Network of HIV/AIDS & Education in Eastern Africa. Recognizing the need to accelerate the education sectors' response to HIV&AIDS in the region through stronger and better quality actions at the national level, eight Ministries of Education in Eastern and Southern Africa have formed an HIV&AIDS and Education Network in Eastern Africa.
Focusing Resources on the School-Age Child (FRESH). A child’s ability to attain her or his full potential is directly related to the synergistic effect of good health, good nutrition and appropriate education. Good health and good education are not only ends in themselves, but also means which provide individuals with the chance to lead productive and satisfying lives. School health is an investment in a country’s future and in the capacity of its people to thrive economically and as a society.
Food for Education (FFE) site aims to become the main repository of all the School Feeding activities implemented worldwide by the many partners involved.