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School Meals, Social Protection, and Human Development: Revisiting Trends, Evidence, and Practices in South Asia and Beyond

17 Apr 2024

With nearly 420 million children reached worldwide, school meals are among the largest-scale social protection interventions. This paper traces the evolution of school meals programs globally, examines the empirical evidence underpinning them, reviews select implementation practices with an emphasis on South Asia, and provides one of the first estimates of World Bank’s investments in school meals.
social protection social assistance school meals food assistance school feeding social protections and labor social protections and labor::social protections & assistance

Authors

Bundy, Donal AP, Gentilini, Ugo, Schultz, Linda, Bedasso, Biniam, Singh, Samrat, Okamura, Yuko, Iyengar, Hrishikesh TMM, Blakstad, Mia Monique

Citation
“ Bundy, Donal AP ; Gentilini, Ugo ; Schultz, Linda ; Bedasso, Biniam ; Singh, Samrat ; Okamura, Yuko ; Iyengar, Hrishikesh TMM ; Blakstad, Mia Monique . 2024 . School Meals, Social Protection, and Human Development: Revisiting Trends, Evidence, and Practices in South Asia and Beyond . © Washington, DC: World Bank . http://hdl.handle.net/10986/41431 License: CC BY-NC 3.0 IGO . ”
Collection(s)
Social Protection and Jobs Discussion Papers
Identifier externaldocumentum
34300909
Identifier internaldocumentum
34300909
Published in
United States of America
Report
189209
Rights
CC BY-NC 3.0 IGO
Rights Holder
World Bank
Rights URI
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/igo
UNIT
HD - SAR Director (HSADR)
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/10986/41431
date disclosure
2024-04-17
region geographical
South Asia
theme
Social Safety Nets,Human Development and Gender,Social Protection,Social Development and Protection,Environment and Natural Resource Management,Health System Strengthening,Indigenous People and Ethnic Minorities,Climate change,Urban and Rural Development,Adaptation,Health Systems and Policies,Social Inclusion,Flood and Drought Risk Management,Disaster Risk Management,Social protection delivery systems

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