Nutrition education can be a way to empower adolescents through knowledge and practical skills development. It can help them become advocates for their own health and nutrition—and identify the barriers that stand in their way. Education, school attendance and completion can also set girls on the path to better nutrition.

Key learning points:
• Nutrition International’s (NI) work in nutrition education for adolescents
• Global data related to out-of-school children and adolescents
• Global and regional data on attendance of primary, lower-secondary, and upper-secondary school by children and adolescents
• Trends in out-of-school children of lower-secondary school age by gender between 2000-2016
• Gender disparities in education
• Economic and environmental disparities in secondary education
• Interventions to support the promotion of increased school attendance
• Outreach programs to support increased school attendance for out-of-school girls
• How school attendance can be increased through financial incentive
• Increasing school attendance by creating enabling environments for girls
• Additional interventions to increase school attendance

Estimated completion time: 25 minutes