The School Health and Nutrition Policy is based on the National Education Policy, “Educating our future”, which partly states that one of the aims of education is to foster healthy living, physical coordination and growth of the child.

Good nutrition is essential for healthy and active lives and has direct bearing on intellectual capacity, which eventually impacts positively on social and economic development of a country.

The development of an action plan to cover professional implementation of strategic key result oriented activities is essential in our long term success towards combating the disease burden and thereby improving health among the Zambian people.
The Office of the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health wishes to express gratitude to the team in the Directorate of Policy and Planning who tirelessly devoted all their time and energy to the successful completion of in this document.

The performance of the global economy during the period of the Poverty Reduction Programme (PRSP) and the Transitional National Development Plan (TNDP) implementation was generally favourable with commodity prices rising to record levels especially for base metals and crude oil.