CREDD introduces Comprehensive Health Education to School of Education –

By Yunus S Saliu

The Curriculum Exploration, Evaluation and Growth Directorate (CREDD) under Ministry of Basic and Secondary Schooling (MoBSE), Tuesday, 16th November, 2021 launched Comprehensive Health and fitness Schooling (CHE) to the School of Instruction at the Gambia Faculty, Brikama.

The introduction of the CHE by the workforce initiated an educational romance involving the college and the directorate, as it will assist to create adolescent sexual and reproductive overall health (ASRH) troubles educational materials, coaching of additional teachers on extensive wellness schooling (CHE) as regarding to sexuality reproductive wellbeing challenges in unique that the education curriculum is presently beneath evaluation.

CHE less than Strengthening Entry to Quality Complete Health Education and learning in The Gambia, is an implementation analysis job completed by the Ministry of Standard and Secondary Education and learning (MoBSE) funded by International Growth Investigate Centre (IDRC). And it is intended to enlighten and educate in and out-of-school learners on adolescent sexual and reproductive overall health (ASRH).

The discussion board was attended by head of Faculty of Education, principal lecturers senior lecturers heads of division head of top quality assurance lecturers senior officials of the CREDD CHE workforce and among other people.

Madam Isatou Ndow, Vice Principal, Gambia College or university, applauded the CHE crew whilst educated the collecting about endeavours of the CREDD at the schooling ministry.

She disclosed that the study conclusions as conducted by the CHE team have been presented in different community forums “and listed here in the Gambia University and School of Education and learning is a spouse,” and the faculty influence is pretty vital.

With the bundle, including instruction, she said “looking at it, it is not charge productive as it is not everybody will be equipped to retrain (team) at the exact time. But when we have the bundle at The Gambia School in this article we would be capable to prepare a large amount of college students who will go out and educate students that was the reason of acquiring populace and household everyday living, gender, HIV and all the emerging concerns.”

She observed that all outlined and many others, in the past, had been less than SES division but later on on divided.

Mr Momodou Jeng, Director of CREDD expressed delights for the heat reception accorded his directorate and the CHE workforce by the University of Education and learning to share the outcome of the analysis findings on CHE with the Faculty of Education and learning.

He gave a extensive track record of the undertaking – Strengthening Access to Good quality Thorough Wellbeing Training in The Gambia adding that it is required “to give you an in-depth qualifications CHE to see how we can also collaborate to make it a productive substitute of the past initiative plan.”

He reminded them of the past initiative plan foundation or standalone job foundation intervention and “we know the problems with individuals forms of intervention after the challenge faces out, the intervention is virtually as lifeless.”

Mr Jeng observed that the initiative of PoP/FLE was quite superior but simply because it was a challenge foundation which was not appropriately integrated into the mainstream curriculum “so we are now taking this opportunity to thoroughly deal with this – CHE.”

He on the other hand disclosed some troubles of CHE declaring it is extremely very clear as the difficulties are all over STIs teenage pregnancy the use of tobacco among other areas that will need to be resolved.

He applauded IDRC for supporting the project in The Gambia with the see of on the lookout at the gaps and occur with system to adopt in a far more sustainable way as with regards to how to properly combine on whatsoever dimension to use to integrate it into university curriculum at the level of the faculty and the faculty curriculum at the Ministry of Education and learning.

As a Ministry, he stated, “we presently fully commited to be element of this to see how we can thoroughly integrate CHE into the curriculum.”

The principal investigator for Strengthening Access to Top quality In depth Overall health Education for in-and-out of College Adolescents in The Gambia, Phebian Ina Grant-Sagnia, designed a depth presentation on which means of In depth Health Education aims and goals of the challenge venture examine approaches offer of interventions to address CHE difficulties and loads additional.

Her interactive presentation was punctuated with unique contributions and tips from the lecturers.

Ms Grant-Sagnia disclosed concern about adolescent sexual and reproductive wellbeing indicating it has grown in excess of the past years thanks to unparalleled increasing fees sexual and reproductive wellness bacterial infections early sexual debut, teenage and unplanned pregnancies.

On the other hand, she said it is a 5-calendar year project which will be applied in Location 1 targeting about forty educational institutions which involved community and private and out-of-school adolescents in the group.

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