Primary School Health Programme



Contract partner: AMREF Austria - Gesellschaft für Medizin und Forschung in Afrika Country: Uganda Funding amount: € 16.209,85 Project start: 01.01.2002 End: 31.12.2005

Short Description:

Overall goal


The project will be part of the ongoing health improvement initiatives of AMREF/district Health services in Kisoro district. Its purpose is to improve the health status of school children through provision of accurate information on causes and spread of diseases and their prevention through child-to child and peer education approaches. As change agents, the children will promote good health practices in the homes and the community at large.

Activities:

1. Effective Teaching of Health Education

2. Screening, Treating and Referrring School Children for Health Care

3. Nutritional Education and Demonstration

4. Healthy School Environment

5. Initiatives by Youth for Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

project number 2325-03/2002
source of funding OEZA
sector Basisgesundheit
tied
modality
marker
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    • 1= policy is a significant objective of the activity
    • 2= policy is the principal objective of the activity
  • Donor/ source of funding: The ADA is not only implementing projects and programmes of the Austrian Development Cooperation , but also projects funded from other sources and donors such as
    • AKF - Foreign Disaster Fund of the Austrian federal government
    • BMLFUW - Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water
    • EU - Funds of the European Commission
    • Others - various other donors are listed in ADA’s annual business report.
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  • Tied/Untied: Untied aid is defined as loans and grants whose proceeds are fully and freely available to finance procurement from all OECD countries and substantially all developing countries. Transactions are considered tied unless the donor has, at the time of the aid offer, clearly specified a range of countries eligible for procurement which meets the tests for “untied” aid.