{"id":3254,"date":"2016-10-10T15:57:49","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T14:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www2.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/?p=3254"},"modified":"2016-10-26T17:34:11","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T16:34:11","slug":"partnership-for-child-development-update-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/2016\/10\/10\/partnership-for-child-development-update-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Partnership for Child Development update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/pcd\">Partnership for Child Development<\/a>\u2019s Dr Elisabetta Aurino presented the initial findings of a three-year impact evaluation of Home Grown School Feeding on communities in Ghana as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schoolsandhealth.org\/Pages\/SHN-Webinar-Series.aspx\">School Health and Nutrition webinar series<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3255\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3255\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3255\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/files\/2016\/10\/girls-with-lunch-ghana-2010-copy-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Image courtesy of the Ghana School Feeding programme\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3255\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image courtesy of the Ghana School Feeding programme<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Home Grown School Feeding programmes are government-led programmes which provide free school meals using food purchased from local smallholder farmers. PCD\u2019s impact evaluation looked into the impact that these programmes have on the health and education of the school children who eat them and on the incomes of the farmers that supply them.\u00a0 Initial findings have shown that schools that provided school feeding experienced higher enrolment and reduced absenteeism rates and that schools girls in particular benefited from HGSF with improvements observed in literacy and cognition. Analysis of farmers data shows that 1 in 3 households in communities with HGSF programmes increased the value of their agricultural sales. A complete analysis of this data will be completed in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p>The SHN webinar is a monthly webinar supported by Imperial College London, Save the Children, UNESCO, UNICEF, World Bank, GIZ and other leading organisations within the School Health and Nutrition field. To sign up to this webinar visit the webinar home at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schoolsandhealth.org\/Pages\/SHN-Webinar-Series.aspx\">www.schoolsandhealth.org\/Pages\/SHN-Webinar-Series.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Francis Peel<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Senior Communications Manager<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Partnership for Child Development<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Partnership for Child Development\u2019s Dr Elisabetta Aurino presented the initial findings of a three-year impact evaluation of Home Grown School Feeding on communities in Ghana as part of the School Health and Nutrition webinar series. Home Grown School Feeding programmes are government-led programmes which provide free school meals using food purchased from local smallholder farmers. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[996,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3254"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3279,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3254\/revisions\/3279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}