Improving child nutrition and development through preschools in Malawi
Some 12,000 community preschools in Malawi serve 45 percent of the county’s preschool population. Yet because of food insecurity and communities’ difficulties in providing preschoolers with a midmorning meal, these schools may not survive. To address this challenge, Save the Children and the Univers...
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International Food Policy Research Institute
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| author | Gelli, Aulo Margolies, Amy Santacroce, Marco Twalibu, Aisha Roschnik, Natalie Chidalengwa, George Phiri, Peter Moestue, Helen Katundu, Mangani |
| author_browse | Chidalengwa, George Gelli, Aulo Katundu, Mangani Margolies, Amy Moestue, Helen Phiri, Peter Roschnik, Natalie Santacroce, Marco Twalibu, Aisha |
| author_facet | Gelli, Aulo Margolies, Amy Santacroce, Marco Twalibu, Aisha Roschnik, Natalie Chidalengwa, George Phiri, Peter Moestue, Helen Katundu, Mangani |
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| description | Some 12,000 community preschools in Malawi serve 45 percent of the county’s preschool population. Yet because of food insecurity and communities’ difficulties in providing preschoolers with a midmorning meal, these schools may not survive. To address this challenge, Save the Children and the University of Malawi’s Chancellor College designed a preschool-based nutrition and agriculture intervention aimed at helping rural communities to produce and prepare more nutritious foods for preschools and for households year-round. An IFPRI-led cluster-randomized controlled trial in 60 preschools in the southeastern district of Zomba found that after just one year of the intervention, agricultural production, the quality and frequency of preschool meals, and household and child dietary diversity had all improved. The intervention also had an impact on the diets and growth of the preschoolers’ younger siblings. These results suggest that preschools can provide an effective platform for scaling-up nutrition and agriculture interventions, benefiting not only the preschools but also communities, households, and children in their first 1,000 days. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1472362025-11-06T05:31:04Z Improving child nutrition and development through preschools in Malawi Gelli, Aulo Margolies, Amy Santacroce, Marco Twalibu, Aisha Roschnik, Natalie Chidalengwa, George Phiri, Peter Moestue, Helen Katundu, Mangani child nutrition community organizations child development preschool children nutrition preschool education child care child feeding health diet food security rural areas Some 12,000 community preschools in Malawi serve 45 percent of the county’s preschool population. Yet because of food insecurity and communities’ difficulties in providing preschoolers with a midmorning meal, these schools may not survive. To address this challenge, Save the Children and the University of Malawi’s Chancellor College designed a preschool-based nutrition and agriculture intervention aimed at helping rural communities to produce and prepare more nutritious foods for preschools and for households year-round. An IFPRI-led cluster-randomized controlled trial in 60 preschools in the southeastern district of Zomba found that after just one year of the intervention, agricultural production, the quality and frequency of preschool meals, and household and child dietary diversity had all improved. The intervention also had an impact on the diets and growth of the preschoolers’ younger siblings. These results suggest that preschools can provide an effective platform for scaling-up nutrition and agriculture interventions, benefiting not only the preschools but also communities, households, and children in their first 1,000 days. 2019-06-21 2024-06-21T09:12:30Z 2024-06-21T09:12:30Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147236 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Gelli, Aulo; Margolies, Amy; Santacroce, Marco; Twalibu, Aisha; Roschnik, Natalie; Chidalengwa, George; Phiri, Peter; Moestue, Helen; and Katundu, Mangani. 2018. Improving child nutrition and development through preschools in Malawi. Project Note. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147236 |
| spellingShingle | child nutrition community organizations child development preschool children nutrition preschool education child care child feeding health diet food security rural areas Gelli, Aulo Margolies, Amy Santacroce, Marco Twalibu, Aisha Roschnik, Natalie Chidalengwa, George Phiri, Peter Moestue, Helen Katundu, Mangani Improving child nutrition and development through preschools in Malawi |
| title | Improving child nutrition and development through preschools in Malawi |
| title_full | Improving child nutrition and development through preschools in Malawi |
| title_fullStr | Improving child nutrition and development through preschools in Malawi |
| title_full_unstemmed | Improving child nutrition and development through preschools in Malawi |
| title_short | Improving child nutrition and development through preschools in Malawi |
| title_sort | improving child nutrition and development through preschools in malawi |
| topic | child nutrition community organizations child development preschool children nutrition preschool education child care child feeding health diet food security rural areas |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/147236 |
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