Policy insights for national school meals programmes: Annual Research Statements to the members of the School Meals Coalition - 2022, 2023, and 2024.

ABSTRACT: The scale and near universality of school closures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the vital role schools play in protecting the health and wellbeing of learners. This experience strengthened the resolve of countries to re-establish and increase their investment in the education and wellbeing of children as part of building back from the pandemic, resulting in the creation of a global School Meals Coalition (SMC) to help achieve that ambition by 2030. The Research Consortium for School Health and Nutrition was launched in 2021 to provide independent, evidence-based guidance on effective policymaking on school health and nutrition programming to the (now) 109 member states of the Coalition. Guided by a 10-year independent research strategy, the Research Consortium operates

SUBMITTER: Research Consortium for School Health and Nutrition 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12315696 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature