Contribute to Quality Physical Education
Learn more about Quality Physical Education (QPE) - an initiative from UNESCO. Here is the Quality Physical Education (QPE) report: guidelines for policy makers.
Contribute to LET'S Be active
Learn more about 'LET'S Be active' - an initiative from WHO. Here is the ACTIVE report: a technical package for increasing physical activity.
Projects and Materials
Initiated by the UNESCO Chair on "Physical Activity and Health in Educational Settings":
Research Project
School-based intervention programme aimed at consolidating the practice of physical education and ensuring the physical literacy and healthy active living of school children and teachers. Based in South Africa.
Research Project
School-based intervention programme aimed at consolidating the practice of physical education and ensuring the physical literacy, healthy active living and healthy diet of school children. Based in South Africa, Tanzania and Ivory Coast.
Dissemination
We plan to conduct teacher workshops and a dissemination of the KaziBantu project amongst 300 primary schools in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, and potentially to other schools from Southern Africa.
Teaching Material
Educational and instructional tool for primary school teachers. Aimed at enhancing children’s overall health through the implementation of Physical Education, Moving-to-music, Health and Hygiene, and Nutrition lessons. The toolkit contains one school year worth of ready-made lessons for grades 1 through 7.
Download & learn more: KaziKidz toolkit
Watch: The KaziKidz Cartoons
Read: The KaziKidz Book
Teacher's Health Promotion Programme
School-based programme aimed at improving teachers health and wellbeing. Health risk assessment, lifestyle coaching and a smartphone app are used to lessen cardiovascular and communicable disease risk, and to improve physical activity, nutrition and psychosocial health.
Teacher's Health Assessment Tool
Kazi-Comprehensive-Health-Assessment-Tool (Kazi-CHAT) is an individual risk assessment tool which entails a number of tests related to measuring health and well-being.
Research Project
Where it all began: The "Disease, Activity and Schoolchildren’s Health" (DASH) Study in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Funded by the Swiss and South African Joint Research Programme. Concluded in March 2018.