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Curriculum, Materials & Professional
Development, and Training
- EI/WHO/EDC Teachers' Training Project
In partnership with Education International (EI) and WHO, we trained 130,000 teachers in 22,000 schools in 15 southern African countries and in Guyana and Haiti to use a skills-based HIVand AIDS prevention training and resource manual. The manual that we developed along with EI, WHO,and local teachers improves teachers’ communication and advocacy skills, and builds students skills around HIV and AIDS prevention, through active learning such as role-playing, brainstorming, and small-group discussions. A recent evaluation of the program concluded that the program is empowering teachers and students to confront HIV. Along with EI and WHO, we also developed a streamlined version-- Teachers' Exercise Book for HIV Prevention-- of all the participatory activities included in the training and resource manual. The book contains some additional activities and provides an opportunity to the teachers to expand the program further.
- Health and Family Life Education (HFLE) Regional Curriculum Framework
In collaboration with CARICOM (Caribbean Community and
Common Market), UNICEF, UNESCO, the University of The West Indies,
and other partners, we have developed a regional curriculum framework
on Health and Family Life Education. This framework provides sample
lessons on sexuality and sexual health, self and interpersonal
relationships, appropriate eating and fitness, and managing the
environment for English-speaking Caribbean countries. For more
information on this project, please see the feature
story.
- Botswana Materials Development for HIV/AIDS Prevention Education
In collaboration with the Botswana Ministry of Education and CDC-Botswana (The BOTUSA Project), we are working with educators to empower primary and secondary students across Botswana to reduce their risk for HIV and sexually transmitted infection (STI). Together, we developed a set of high-quality, culturally-appropriate, behavior-based, and interactive curricula. The curricula -- first of its kind for Botswana -- is focusing on skills development for HIV prevention and care for those infected and affected, and advocates for AIDS-related anti-discriminations.
- Model School Health Tobacco Control Intervention
On behalf of WHO, we developed a
tobacco use prevention curriculum that differs substantially
from school health programs developed by the tobacco industry.
This curriculum engages children in global, national, and local
advocacy efforts to prevent tobacco use, strongly emphasizing
actions that youth can take to support the WHO Framework Convention
on Tobacco Control. The
curriculum has been pilot-tested in India, Ghana and Mexico
and adapted
and pilot-tested in Uruguay. Teachers and students who have used the curriculum
reported that they gained important information and awareness
related to tobacco, were very motivated by the interactive
teaching methods and inspired to take actions to prevent
tobacco addiction.
- Local Action: Creating Health Promoting Schools
On behalf of WHO we developed a practical 'how-to' guide designed to help school administrators to establish health-promoting schools at the local level. This document includes many case studies, tools, and handouts.
Program and Policy Development and Best Practices
- Advocacy and Leadership Project
In partnership with UNESCO's Office for the Caribbean, we have
launched a leadership
campaign in the English-speaking Caribbean countries to
advocate for and support capacity building of the education
sector to implement comprehensive approaches to combat HIV/AIDS. Beginning
in two countries-- Trinidad & Tobago and Jamaica-- that
have already demonstrated their leadership in this area, we
will identify outstanding Caribbean leaders who will commit
to using their expertise, influence, and skills to bring change
in the education sector throughout the region. These leaders
will work with us to design advocacy strategies to be used
within their countries and throughout the region. For more
information, please see our feature
story.
- Rapid Assessment and Action Planning Process (RAAPP)
In partnership with WHO, we developed an approach and package of tools--research instruments, training strategies, data analysis, and action planning techniques-- to assess and strengthen a country's capacity to deliver school health programs. Since 1999, RAAPP has been used in Indonesia, Nigeria and, most recently, in India. In these countries, RAAPP has brought together the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Education and other partners to jointly assess and plan their capacities to strengthen school health efforts.
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Focusing Resources on Effective School Health (FRESH) and through Health-Promoting Schools
As a FRESH partners, we strengthen the efforts of UN-agencies in the world’s most populous countries to address the healthy development of young people through schools. HHD has, with other partners, provided support to WHO to convene four annual meetings between 1998 and 2001 of those responsible for school health in the world’s largest countries. In the meantime, many such schools have been established around the world to equip students and their families with knowledge and skills to keep them healthy. On behalf of UNESCO, one of the partners in FRESH, HHD has adapted tools for teachers and practitioners to implement FRESH at their schools.
- Health-Promoting Schools in China
Together with WHO, we are providing technical assistance to the provincial Health Education Institute, departments of health and education, and project schools in Zhejiang Province, China, to establish Health-Promoting Schools with an emphasis on priority health issues. Pilot projects in this province have been successful in improving knowledge, attitudes, and behavior in students, parents, and school staff. Based on these promising results, this project is now systematically being scaled up province wide. For more information, please see the feature story.
Evaluation, Research and Synthesis
- Health and Family Life (HFLE) Curriculum's Implementation and Evaluation Study
We began a three-year study in four countries (St. Lucia, Barbados, Antigua, and Grenada) in the Caribbean to implement, monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of a common HFLE curriculum that conforms to the Regional Framework and highlights two critical content themes in HFLE: Sexuality and Sexual Health (which encompasses HIV/AIDS prevention), and Self and Interpersonal Relationships (which incorporates violence prevention). This common curriculum will be based on the Regional Curriculum Framework, which provides guidelines for achieving measurable gains in students' knowledge, health-promoting attitudes and skills, as well as reductions in risk behaviors related to HIV, STIs, and unintended pregnancy and violence.
- HIV/AIDS and Youth Employment
At the launching of the Youth Employment Summit (YES) in Alexandria, Egypt, and its subsequent annual summits in Hyderabad, India, and Veracruz, Mexico, we synthesized best practices and convened expert panels to present and discuss model programs to address HIV/AIDS and youth employment. Among the topics covered were stigma, individual rights, discrimination in the workplace, HIV prevention programs, voluntary counseling and treatment for employees and their families, and involving young people in HIV/AIDS work. For the Egypt Summit, HHD developed a document called HIV/AIDS, Health, Safety and the Youth Employment Summit: A Call to Action, that describes several outstanding policies and programs from around the world. For the Hyderabad event, we developed a publication called HIV/AIDS and Employment: Protecting Young People and Involving Them in Work-Related Solutions. On behalf of the World Bank, HHD is now adapting the Hyderabad publication for the African context.
- Life Skills Approach to Child and Adolescent Healthy Human Development
On behalf of the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO), HHD, with experts in Latin America and the Caribbean, authored a document that discusses the theory behind skills-based health education, evidence for its effectiveness, case studies, and lessons learned. (The Spanish version may be found here).
- Thematic Study on School Health and Nutrition
On behalf of UNESCO and WHO, HHD conducted a study for the Education for All (EFA) 2000 Assessment. This study reviews what has happened in the field of school health and nutrition in the 1990s, identifies strategies and interventions that have proven effective, and suggests actions for the decade to come.
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