School Health and School Feeding

This report presents an assessment of school feeding policies and institutions that affect young children in Madagascar. The analysis is based on a World Bank tool developed as part of the Systems Approach for Better Education Results (SABER) initiative that aims to systematically assess education systems against evidence-based global standards and good practice to assist countries reform their education systems for proper learning for all.

[Impact Evaluation] This brief summarizes the results of a gender impact evaluation study, entitled School meals, educational achievement, and school competition : evidence from a randomized evaluation, conducted between 2000 and 2002 in Kenya. The study observed the impact of subsidized school meals on school participation, educational achievement, and school finance in a developing country setting that was implemented in 25 randomly chosen preschools in a pool of 50 schools on the child level.

This brief summarizes worms: identifying impacts on education and health in the presence of treatment externalities in Kenya for the period 1998-99. Intestinal helminthes includes hookworm, roundworm, whipworm, and schistoso-miasis-infect more than one-quarter of the world's population. Studies in which medical treatment is randomized at the individual level potentially doubly underestimate the benefits of treatment, missing externality benefits to the comparison group from reduced disease transmission, and therefore also underestimating benefits for the treatment group.

[Impact Evaluation] This paper investigates the effects of intermittent screening and treatment of malaria on the health and education of school children in an area of low-to-moderate malaria transmission. A cluster randomized trial was implemented with 5,233 children in 101 government primary schools on the south coast of Kenya in 2010-12. The intervention was delivered to children randomly selected from classes 1 and 5 who were followed up twice across 24 months. Once during each school term, public health workers used malaria rapid diagnostic tests to screen the children.

[Impact Evaluation] This brief summarizes the results of a gender impact evaluation study, entitled Education and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) prevention : evidence from a randomized evaluation in Western Kenya, conducted between 2003 and 2005 in Kenya. The study reports results from randomized evaluation comparing three school-based HIV or AIDS interventions in Kenya on the individual level.

[Impact Evaluation] Malaria is a serious public health problem in Kenya. Since pregnant women and children under five bear the brunt of mortality and morbidity, the vast majority of malaria interventions focus on these high-risk groups. Because of the growing awareness of linkages between health and educational outcomes, an ongoing study in Kenya evaluates the effectiveness of a malaria control intervention implemented alongside teacher training aimed at enhancing the quality of instruction.

This report presents an assessment of school feeding policies and institutions that affect young children in Republic of Congo. The analysis is based on a World Bank tool developed as part of the Systems Approach for Better Education Results (SABER) initiative that aims to systematically assess education systems against evidence-based global standards and good practice to assist countries reform their education systems for proper learning for all.

This report presents an assessment of school feeding policies and institutions that affect young children in Benin. The analysis is based on a World Bank tool developed as part of the Systems Approach for Better Education Results (SABER) initiative that aims to systematically assess education systems against evidence-based global standards and good practice to assist countries reform their education systems for proper learning for all.