Europe & North America
This report analyzes and presents the Consultation findings, draws trends, and provides guidance for action. It shows how, by implementing the provisions of the Consultation, States can accelerate progress towards achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4, while invites a reflection on possibly reviewing the framework of the right to education to further respond to new challenges and put an end to increased inequalities worldwide.
The programme was created in response to observations of the needs of parents who have problems with their children’s upbringing and education and find it difficult to manage them. Children and adolescents manifest these problems through behaviour and emotions, but they have not yet escalated to the point where placement in an institution is necessary. Placement in an educational institution seems to become less and less appealing to both parents and their children until the problems become completely unmanageable in the home environment.
Inclusion and equity in education can be improved when there are investments in children’s health and nutrition through well-designed school feeding programmes that provide food to children in school. Both a social safety net and a school health intervention, school feeding provides an opportunity for education systems to address multiple barriers at once.