The Partnership for Child Development

Academic excellence, technical expertise and high level networks: a unique partnership for child development.

Healthy children learn better. School health and nutrition (SHN) interventions have been shown to improve not only children’s health and nutrition, but also their learning potential and life choices both in the short- and long-term. As such, they are recognised as making a significant contribution towards countries’ efforts to achieve Education for All (EFA) and their Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

The Partnership for Child Development (PCD), formed in 1992, is an organisation committed to improving the education, health and nutrition of school-age children and youth in low income countries.  PCD works with governments, communities and agencies to enable effective and sustainable SHN programmes to be delivered to millions of children around the world.

PCD consists of a global consortium of civil society organizations, academic institutions and technical experts with a streamlined Coordinating Centre based at Imperial College London. The role of the Centre is not as an implementing agency, but to engage specific experts, in specific countries, on specific issues, as and when required. In this way, we are able to bring together a distinct combination of academic excellence, technical expertise and high level networks to governments and international organizations, resident in many different countries.

PCD is part of the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology which is in turn part of the Faculty of Medicine of Imperial College London. 

More information on PCD can be found on our website: http://www.child-development.org.For information on school health, nutrition and HIV, please see the Schools & Health website, which is administered by PCD: http://www.schoolsandhealth.org