AVRDC The World Vegetable Center’s ‘Vegetables Go to School’ project focuses on promoting school gardens and increasing children’s consumption of fresh vegetables in Bhutan and Nepal in South Asia, Indonesia and the Philippines in Southeast Asia, and Burkina Faso and Tanzania in Africa. The project, conducted incollaboration with the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute and the Universityof Freiburg, Germany, is funded by the Swiss Agency for Development andCooperation. Country managers and project collaborators were invited from the agriculture/horticulture, education, and health sectors of the participating countries to attend a four-week long training of trainers workshop to identify the current status of school gardens and ascertain specific needs in promoting food and nutrition security through school garden-based approaches. The workshop focused on criteria for theselection of schools, sampling procedures, garden design, crop selection, planting schedules and good agricultural/horticultural practices, data collection and management strategies. The participants engaged in hands-on capacity building activities at the Center’s Demonstration Garden and research facilities. Action planscreated by the respective country teams at the end of the workshop included objectives, garden design layout, implementation, promotion, management, expected outcomes and nutritional impact assessment strategies. Following the training workshop, a three-day policy workshop brought together country policy makers, management and project advisory committees to evaluate the action plans and chart acourse forward for implementing school gardens and obtaining data for impact assessment.