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Child Focused Health Education Fulfilling the right to children’s participation

Overview presentation

History (Lucienne) Modules (Lucienne) Impact (Sohail) Afghanistan case study – focus on how to use CFHE for community mobilisation (Sohail)

History

CRC Political rights – participation rights New sociology of childhood Behaviour change models Children exercise agency

Child to Child

Principle of learning by discovery, changing other people’s behavior will change

• wn behavior

Children have access to younger siblings as well as mothers Labour intensive process

Afghanistan

80’s materials developed Need to focus on children not in school Illiterate Expose children/communities to other forms of learning Materials followed the principles of C-to-C 6 simple modules, one more elaborate nutrition module Afghan refugee program Since then new modules and improved existing modules

New Modules

First aid Vaccinations Improved diarrhea (including pit latrine design) Mine/ROW module Girl and boy module (adolescent health) Avian Flu HIV/AIDS Cholera – emergency Use of modules in child friendly spaces

Process

Develop and pilot materials Print materials Train facilitators (often illiterate – best facilitators – volunteers – have left school) Provide them with structure A series of sessions with a clear end, start and middle were developed whereby the same materials could be used in a range of ways. Often twice a week facilitators work with a group of children on the topic – often 8-12 activities – each session one activity Setting for the sessions informal in people’s homes, under a tree etc.

Impact

Improve children’s participation in SC programs through access to appropriate information Improve the health situation of children and communities, through children (accept that children have agency) Reach as many children as possible – facilitators have often stopped school or never went to school Facilitators are volunteers (materials and status are their incentives)

Impact Yemen

Anecdotal Acceptance of some communities for the school to have latrines instead of flash toilets Impact on self esteem of especially adolescent girls as facilitators

Impact Afghanistan

Based on survey results: Knowledge/practice of balanced diet: from 9% to 38% Prevention of worms through washing hands: from none to 6% Knowledge micro nutrients: from hardly anything to 75% of the importance of iodine and iodised salt Iodised salt at home: from 19% to 56%

Afghanistan Child Focused Health Education Vitamin A Campaigns

Signing MOUs by all

Training for all committees

Training for all committees

Information for the adult committees on Vitamin A

Following the CFHE module

• preparing for the event

Preparing for the event at the school

Spreading the word – inviting for the event

Spreading the word – inviting for the event

Spreading the word – inviting for the event

The event at the school for all

The event at the school for all

The event at the school for all

The event at the school for all

The event at the school for all

Children Activities in School

Song about Vitamin A

Vitamin A Song

Playing the games

Role plays

Vitamin A Natural Resources

Vitamin A for all

Vitamin A for all

Going home

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Inclusive Education Project in Yemen ( Aden, Lahj and Abyan ) from 2008-2012

Child Focused Health Education

Introduction

• In late 2008 and early 2009 a baseline for an Inclusive Education

project in three governorates of the South of Yemen (Abyan, Lahj and Aden) was identified for impact evaluation as well as providing information for detailed program implementation and school health component was one of the main target subject in that survey .

• The results showed that Children had a low level of knowledge and

awareness of health and nutrition related issues; especially the knowledge related to good practices. It is telling that knowledge was not related to if children attended school or not, indicating that knowledge is not obtained from school.

• Especially knowledge in relation to the prevention of disease, such

as hand washing and using the latrine was low and need to be

• addressed. Hand-washing practices are both affected by knowledge

when it is most needed to wash hands and to the possibility to wash hands; although at school soap was not available, at home it was – despite this a very low number of children wash their hand after using the latrine.

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• Schools show an absence of enough functional latrines, as well as a

lack of latrines for girls separate from boys. Children reported that a large number of latrines, although available were not functioning or not open. Although water was often available, a majority of children said soap was never available at school, which has direct consequences for the effectiveness of hand-washing practices. To encourage an healthy school environment water and latrines need to be accessible for both boys and girls. Access to functional water taps and latrines is needed to prevent disease, but also to address basic needs of children while at school. In order to keep facilities functional and to make sure that children make good use of them, appropriate practices need to be promoted.

• Based on this results IE program start implemented package of

activities in CFHE aimed to increase awareness between children and encourage the practices of child to child method .

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CFHE Activities

• rehabilitate and construct toilets for girls, boys and disable children.
• Providing schools with safe drinking water construct water basin

with taps and water tanks.

• Community-based, child-focused health education activities

implemented in 35 school communities in Aden ,Lahj and Abyan.

• Train 484 youth volunteers in health and Nutrition programs based
• n child to child approach to educate 2928 children (1350 boys and

1578 girls) .

• train 23 health workers in 23 schools in Aden and Lahj on WASH

and diarrhea modules.

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• Train 50 youth volunteers and 8 DC project staff who trained 9,581

children on First aid and Diarrhea. 12 health campaigns implemented in 12 schools communities .

• Trained parents councils in 25 schools in health community

planning with school health department in Health offices .

• Conduct global wash day activities in 25 schools .
• Save the Children’s de-worming campaign comes as part of the

activities under the second objective of the Inclusive Education Program for the year 2011; the Campaign targeted 6 schools’ students in Tuban district in Lahj governorate with facilitation from the Ministry of Education’s governorate office.

• A total of 5290 students of school age were de-wormed (1800 boys

and 3490 girls)

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• Awareness sessions on personal hygiene and environment were

conducted at schools for 288 participants including teachers, students and both mothers and fathers.

• The governorate health office provided 700 tablets (400 mg) of

Albendazol.

• 8 health workers were trained on recording and administration of de-

worming tablets to ensure appropriate knowledge and skills to implement the campaign

• 1000 copies of brochures with information about the de-worming

campaign were distributed during the awareness sessions.

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Inclusive Education Program

CFHE Activities

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