It was recognised early in the planning process that compliance with project timescales would be a critical factor because training courses and school implementations had to be held within limited timeframes to fit with school-term times, examination periods and other scheduled school activities.
The '11 for Health' programme has now been shown to be an effective way of increasing children's awareness and knowledge about a range of health issues within three different socioeconomic settings in Africa, using both in-school and out-of-school implementation strategies.
Engagement was measured according to schools' implementation of health promoting strategies.
Table 2 summarizes the assessment of implementation of Daily provision of free FV and Table 3 the changes in schools' implementation levels (teacher data) of each process measure throughout the implementation period.
The local coordinator seconded from the Department of Sport and based within the MFA provided a key role in the schools' implementation, as he developed the lines of communication with F-MARC, the Ministry of Education and school principals and teachers.
This framework includes the following five dimensions: reach into the target population (i.e. children), the effectiveness of the intervention, extent of adoption in the target setting (i.e. schools), implementation, and maintenance of the intervention effects [ 4, 5].
This is reflected in improved ECE enrolment and primary school survival rates in targeted Townships; Some school improvements were achieved through Child Friendly Schools implementation; Access to non-formal education, including life-skills based continuing education (EXCEL) and non-formal primary education (NFPE) was increased.
The aim of the present study was to explore the perceived challenges and facilitators of active commuting (e.g. walking and/or cycling) to and from school following implementation of the School Travel Programme through qualitative feedback from children and adolescents.
A recent study compared U.S. students from two different years in the same medical school following implementation of radiology into the curriculum.
At school and implementation level, there is need to focus more strongly on the pragmatic content of GE and not so much on its theoretical dimensions.
