Empowering Girls via Integrated Education, Health and Nutrition Services
Description
By 2027, Yemen will empower 1,100,694 adolescent girls through integrated education and health services, focusing on nutrition, reproductive health, and life skills. Key actions include:
- Establishing 200 school-based nutrition clubs to provide girls with education on healthy diets, menstrual hygiene, and micronutrient supplementation.
- Conducting biannual deworming campaigns and providing iron and folic acid supplements in collaboration with the Ministries of Education and Health.
- Training 2,500 female teachers, healthcare workers, and social specialists to deliver gender-sensitive awareness on nutrition and health in schools and communities.
- Launching a national campaign to reduce the secondary school dropout rate among girls by 12%, linking nutritional support to school attendance (aligned with the Back to School campaign).
- Establishing and sustaining school meal kitchens in targeted girls’ schools.
GNR assessment
| Verification status |
Verified
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| SMARTness index |
High
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Details
| Target population characteristic |
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| Global nutrition target(s) |
Anaemia
Low birth weight
Exclusive breastfeeding
Childhood stunting
Childhood wasting
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| Nutrition Action Classification(s) |
Policy >
Nutrition care services
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Measurement
| Key indicator | Number of girls benefiting from integrated services in education, health and nutrition. |
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| Measurement plan | Collect own data |
| Value | Measurement date | |
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| Baseline | 220,138 Girls | February 2025 |
| Target | 1,100,694 Girls | December 2027 |
