GRF 2nd One Health Summit 2013: Presentation by Christ Castle, «Organisation»

1. Education and ‘One Health’
Chris Castle, Chief
Section of HIV and Health Education
Division of Education for
Peace and Sustainable Development
UNESCO

2. Overview of UNESCO
• UNESCO’s mission is to contribute to the building of
peace, the eradication of poverty, sustainable
development and intercultural dialogue through
education, the sciences, culture, communication
and information
• It has 195 member states
• The Constitution of UNESCO came into force on 4
November 1946
• It is based in Paris, France
UNESCO headquarters
© UNESCO/M. Ravassard

3. UNESCO’s Work in Health
Education
• UNESCO works to achieve Education for All
(EFA) and Millennium Development Goal 2 by
promoting the health of every individual
within the school community.
• UNESCO promotes good policies and practice
in the education sector, helps partners create
safe learning environments, and promotes life
skills-based instruction through modern,
interactive teaching methods.

4. Focusing Resources on Effective
School Health (FRESH)
• Close relationship between health, physical and cognitive
development, school participation and academic
achievement.
• The FRESH partnership: UN agencies and civil society
working together in school health for the achievement of
development and education goals.
• FRESH is guided by a 4-part framework that resonates
with the One Health concept. These are health
education, environment, services and policy.
©UNAIDS

5. Equitable
school health
policies
To be healthy
to learn
Safe
Learning
environment
and…
School based
health & nutrition
services
Skills based health
education
To learn to be
healthy

6. Skills-based Health
Education

7. • Uses participatory exercises for skills development:
– cognitive skills: creative and critical thinking, and
decision-making;
– personal skills: anger management and emotional
coping; and,
– interpersonal skills: communication, cooperation and
negotiation skills
• There are connections between skills-based health
education and Global Citizenship Education, which
includes environmental stewardship

8. Safe and Healthy
Learning
Environment

9. • Physical environment: free from danger,
disease, physical harm or injury; sufficient water
and sanitation facilities are available and
physical structures are sound, welcoming and
secure.
• Socio-emotional environment: students are free
from fear or exploitation, and where codes
against misconduct exist and are enforced.

10. Health Services

11. • Treatment services improves the ability to
concentrate and learn
• School-based counselling services can
prevent/reduce school absenteeism and dropout
• Referral system can ensure that learners get
adequate support

12. Equitable
School Health
Policies

13. • School-level: policies set priorities, objectives,
standards and rules to protect and promote
the health and safety of students and staff.
• National-level: School-level health-related
policies are most effective when supported by
a national level policy framework that
articulates expectations for schools across the
country

14. Selected UNESCO Initiatives Underway
• Support to countries to scale up
comprehensive sexuality education
• Young People Today. Time to Act Now!
• Addressing homophobic bullying
• Menstruation and puberty education
• Global Citizenship Education Forum

15. Examples
 School-based deworming
 Safe water and sanitation
© The Partnership for Child
Development/F. Peel

16. In sum, UNESCO supports ‘One Health’ through
evidence-informed good policies and practices
that make schools healthier for learners to learn
and teachers to teach, and where the whole
school community learns to be healthy.

17. MERCI
unesco.org/aids