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Website: <www.cich.ich.ucl.ac.uk>

Contact person(s): Madeleine Green at [email protected] and Andrew Tomkins at [email protected]

Introduction and background

The Centre for International Health and Development (CIHD) was formerly known as the Centre for International Child Health. The mission of CIHD is “working for improvement in health, nutrition, development and welfare of children in developing countries through excellence in research, teaching and advocacy”.

Activities and programmes

CIHD is a research organization which has four main areas of research: 1. Perinatal health.

2. Maternal and child nutrition. 3. Child development and disability. 4. Children in difficult circumstances.

CIHD holds postgraduate courses for a doctoral programme in the above areas and several Masters programmes in the following areas:

1. Mother and child health.

2. Disability studies in developing countries. 3. International child health.

CIHD also runs modules and short courses in a range of international child health topics.

Topics on policy and advocacy work

Topic Topic

Human rights, discrimination and stigma

reduction ✔ Services for students with special needs ✔ School feeding programmes _✔ Violence prevention _✔ Immunization, vaccination Gender and sexual diversity _✔ Ethnic and religious diversity _✔ Environmental concerns _✔ Skills-based health education including

reproductive health/HIV&AIDS prevention ✔ Access to safe water ✔ Tobacco, drugs, alcohol prevention _✔ Promotion of adequate

sanitation/latrines ✔ Health and nutrition services, including

deworming ✔ Partnerships and participation ✔

Promotion of a safe school environment _✔ Malaria care and prevention _✔

Work place issues _✔ Other:

Partnerships, advocacy, research and participation

CIHD works closely with organizations in research and training in many developing countries, with UN agencies i.e. International Labour Organization, UNICEF, WHO, and the World Food Programme (WFP); non-governmental organizations i.e.

Tearfund, Save the Children Fund, and Valid; and national governments i.e. Departments of Health, Education and Social Welfare.

Future plans

New foci of research and engagement with governments and research organizations include:

1. Children in difficult circumstances – especially orphanhood and child labour. 2. Nutrition – especially in the health of the older child (age 5 to10 years old). 3. Child development – especially the links between nutrition and mental health

and child development.

CHILD-TO-CHILD TRUST (CtC)

Website: <www.child-to-child.org>

Contact person(s): Dr. Tashmin Khamis at [email protected]

Introduction and background

The Child-to-Child Trust (CtC) acts as the central core of a worldwide movement of health and education workers and programmes. Its objectives are to protect and preserve the health of communities worldwide by encouraging and enabling children and young people to play an active and responsible role in the health and development of themselves, other children and their families. The work of CtC centres on the belief that children − a large proportion of the world's citizens − can play a positive role in raising the health of others and in so doing improve their own knowledge and self-belief whilst developing attitudes of caring responsibly for others.

CtC operational priorities are the production and dissemination of appropriate and up-to-date health education materials. This process includes reviewing and revising existing international CtC materials, filling in important gaps in international materials and supporting the development of national materials, including publication of materials in local first languages with local publishers.

CtC conducts training, implementation and evaluation support within countries to projects in Africa, the Arab world, Asia and Latin America. This support is provided to meet the requests of local organizations. It aims to strengthen the skills of local people and help ensure the sustainability of their activities.

The thematic priorities of CtC are:

1. Health promotion in schools: With an emphasis on water and sanitation

needs and on development of links between primary and pre-school children.

2. Children and HIV&AIDS: Including the reduction of risks of HIV infection and

supporting children affected by HIV&AIDS (including orphans).

3. Inclusive education: By making learning accessible to all children, including

those with disabilities and those who are prevented from attending school due to economic and social reasons.

CtC puts particular focus on the needs of two groups − the maturing child and the very young child − especially when reviewing and developing materials. Although CtC is a small coordinating body, its work in promoting children as agents and partners in health, has high international status and profile. CtC ideas and materials are widely used by governments, NGOs and international agencies.

Activities and programmes

An agreement has been developed between CtC and WHOs ‘Global School Health Initiative’ to foster integrated and coordinated school health programmes, in which children themselves play a full and active role. The agreement can be downloaded from the CtC website (see above).

The Health Action Schools programme runs in partnership with Save the Children, UK and aims to develop prototypes of Health Promoting Schools in Pakistan. One objective is to study the effectiveness of the Child-to-Child approach as a means of

improving the methodology of teaching health education, through linking learning with action. For more information on this programme, see the CtC website.

CtC and Healthlink Worldwide are the United Kingdom partners in a 4 year project that started in July 2000, funded by Comic Relief. Project partners in Kenya and Uganda are working with other community-based organizations to identify, develop and disseminate effective and practical strategies to mitigate the impact of HIV&AIDS on children and young people and to respond to their needs.

The Inclusive Education Project in Mpika, Zambia supports a programme of experimentation and documentation of the use of the Child-to-Child approach by schools and communities to promote inclusive education. The project aims are twofold: to raise the awareness of schools and communities of the benefits of inclusive education; and to develop strategies that fully involve children with disabilities in school and community life.

Topics on policy and advocacy work

Topic Topic

Human rights, discrimination and stigma

reduction ✔ Services for students with special needs ✔ School feeding programmes Violence prevention _✔ Immunization, vaccination _✔ Gender and sexual diversity _✔ Ethnic and religious diversity _✔ Environmental concerns _✔ Skills-based health education including

reproductive health/HIV&AIDS prevention ✔ Access to safe water ✔ Tobacco, drugs, alcohol prevention _✔ Promotion of adequate

sanitation/latrines ✔ Health and nutrition services, including

deworming ✔ Partnerships and participation ✔

Promotion of a safe school environment _✔ Malaria care and prevention

Work place issues Other: Youth participation _✔ Partnerships, advocacy, research and participation

CtC is a cosponsor of FRESH and has contributed greatly to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), FRESH website providing tools and materials. CtC has also published with WHO Children for health:

Children as partners in health promotion, which advocates for the FRESH approach

to school health promotion. It is also the only publication containing the latest on

Facts for Life (published by UNICEF and other agencies and is available at

<www.talcuk.org>).

As a pioneer in children’s participation the Child-to-Child approach has been shown to be a practical way to increase children’s participation in health and education. Based on learning from various programmes using the approach in over 70 countries worldwide, a manual of monitoring and evaluation indicators for children’s participation in the Child-to-Child approach is being developed.

Through the Comic Relief Investment Grant (2003 to 2008) CtC is currently partnering with four organizations, namely: the Arab Resource Collective (Lebanon); the Aga Khan University Institute for Educational Development (Pakistan); the Centre for Health Education Training and Nutrition Awareness (India); and the

Kenya AIDS NGOs Consortium (Kenya), to strengthen the international network to promote children’s participation in health and development.

CtC also runs international short courses on FRESH and the Child-to-Child approach, the most recent held in Karachi (Pakistan) on February 2006, jointly with the Health Action Schools programme.

Future plans