On 17 May 2018, the Belgian platforms Be-cause health and Educaid.be jointly organise an international conference in Brussels on the intersection between health and education in international cooperation.
Better learning outcomes lead to improved health outcomes and vice versa. This is particularly true for women and girls. Ensuring quality education for all is central to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, specifically the goals that ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all, at all ages. At the same time, learning outcomes are also critically dependent on the health and nutrition of the individual learner.
But to what extent does international cooperation link health and education? Are there examples of collaboration between the two sectors? What are the needs and principal barriers? What are the conditions for making collaboration effective?
This conference wants to highlight the links between health and education as global public goods, and explore common challenges as well as learning opportunities. It will thereby focus on investments in three main areas:
- Health workforce development
- Safe and healthy school environments
- Community engagement/awareness-raising for health and education
The conference will be opened by Alexander De Croo, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Development Cooperation, Digital Agenda, Telecom and Postal services, followed by a keynote address which will provide a helicopter view of the intersection between health and education. Subsequently, an expert panel will make the case for investing in education and health and highlight international priorities for this crucial interplay. In the afternoon, four parallel break-out sessions will focus on innovative practices and examples of collaboration between a wide range of development actors – international and Belgian – working on education and/or health.
The annual conferences of Be-cause health and Educaid.be aim to enrich discussion on respectively health and education issues within international cooperation by giving the floor to academics and researchers, policy makers and practitioners from all over the world. With this joint conference, both platforms aim to trigger critical reflection on the roles of international development actors in combining education and health.
The conference will be held in English and French. Simultaneous translation (English-French) will be provided in the plenary sessions and in session C.
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Educaid.be & Be-cause health
About the Minister
Panel discussion – Making the case for investing in education and health
Moderator: Laura Shields, Red Thread
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Two Birds, One Stone
How can comprehensive sexuality education and programmes addressing school-related gender-based violence contribute to better sexual and reproductive health and education outcomes? Lessons for policy, practice and partnerships
Organisers: International Centre for Reproductive Health (ICRH), Plan International Belgium, Sensoa, VVOB
Language: English (no translation)
Moderator: Sietske Steneker, UNFPA
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The POWER of KNOWING
Training practices for healthcare professionals combining innovation and tried and tested methods with a view to making teams more independent
Organisers: Fracarita Belgium, Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM), Medics without Vacation, ULB Coopération
Language: French (no translation)
Moderator: Anne Fromont, Ecole de Santé Publique, ULB
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Citizens claiming their rights
How to engage communities in realizing the right to health and education
Organisers: APEFE, G3W-M3M, KIYO, Plan International Belgium, ULB Coopération
Language: French and English (with simultaneous translation)
Moderator: Fanny Polet, G3W-M3M-KIYO-Solidagro (consortium)
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Where education meets health: health education for children and adolescents
Developing adequate and contextualised teaching materials to promote general understanding of diabetes and first aid to enhance children and adolescents’ ability to be more resilient, safer and healthier.
Organisers: Belgian Red Cross Flanders (BRC-F), Internatioanl Diabetes Federation (IDF)
Language: English (no translation)
Moderator:TBC
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