ABSTRACT
The impact of the pandemic caused by COVID-19 may deepen the situations of malnutrition, where it will be necessary to adapt food programs to this new context. The objective of this work was to present the methodology and the main results of the process of formulating a federal guide based on scientific evidence and adapted to the reality of the child and adolescent population that attend school canteens in the 24 jurisdictions of Argentina. It was observed that the modalities for the implementation of SC during the pandemic were: food modules (the most frequent);food modules delivered at school with regular SC support and, food and/or snacks delivered daily. There was little evidence at the global and regional level on specific recommendations applied to the implementation of SC, although recommendations on hygiene and food handling were found. Based on a participatory process among key actors, specific recommendations were obtained according to the dimensions of food and nutrition security (FNS). It is concluded that it is necessary to increase participatory experiences in the design of recommendations based on evidence, adapted to the territory and that assume a comprehensive approach from the dimensions of FNS. Arch Latinoam Nutr 2020;70(3): 215-234. © 2020 Archivos Latinoamericanos Nutricion. All rights reserved.
ABSTRACT
On March 31, 2020, the Central Board of Directors of the University of the Republic (Udelar) established that teaching be organized sustained on digital platforms during 2020, ensuring the delivery of courses on this basis, in order to maintain the measures of physical distancing that the health emergency required. In response to this circumstance, in the new CENUR Northeast, a group of teachers emerged, NoresteOnline, who decided to cooperate with organizational and methodological support for emergency remote teaching, in order to provide support to the actors with greater difficulties for the development of their work in such circumstances.The objective of the group was to support the teaching team in the region in the design and redesign of online teaching and learning activities through actions, assistance and advice devices, promoting the development of a learning community, making use of open educational resources. Actions aimed at organizing, designing and managing these resources and proposing teaching activities according to needs identified. It was also a specific objective to present various initiatives to maintain contact with students virtually, especially aiming at those who are entering the university for the first time. This work shows the way that the CENUR Northeast teaching community managed to respond to the contingency, by describing the gestation process of the group, the different work strategies, a brief analysis from the pedagogical, didactic, communicative and university construction dimensions. It aims to address some aspects that are considered fundamental in the context of the pandemic, in the sense of ensuring the right to higher education of all people in a framework of equal opportunities, so as not to leave any student behind, contributing to sustain education as a continuum in order to preserve the non-interruption of educational trajectories.