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The Partnership for Child Development (PCD)
Founded1992
FocusSchool Health, Poverty reduction
Location
OriginsUniversity of Oxford
Imperial College London
Area served
Global
MethodCapacity building, knowledge dissemination, building the evidence base and building global partnerships.
Websitehttp://www.imperial.ac.uk/pcd, http://www.schoolsandhealth.org

The Partnership for Child Development (PCD) is a research group based at Imperial College London that seeks to improve health and nutrition in school-age children and youth in low-income countries, and thereby improve their education. It was formed in 1992 at the University of Oxford to bridge gaps between academia, funding bodies and the education and health sectors in low-income countries.[1] It now is based within Imperial College London's Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, in St Mary's Hospital, London, and is funded by international development organisations.[citation needed]

Organisational Focus

The organisation's activities are demand-led: PCD helps low-income countries meet their school health needs using the findings of evidence-based research and international funds. PCD is a knowledge-based institution which creates and shares information. It conducts operational research showing how interventions can be implemented and evaluated at the country level, for example enabling mass treatment of children for common infections such as hookworms and bilharzia (described in chapter 58 of Jamison et al., 2006). PCD also facilitates the sharing of knowledge between academia, governments and agencies at both national and international level, through web sites, mail lists and a global network of partners. In recent years, a major focus of this work has been assisting educators and health professionals to work together to help schools respond to the threat that HIV&AIDS poses to education, health and poverty alleviation.[citation needed]

A major function of PCD is capacity-building, by means of courses and workshops for governmental and non-governmental staff in developing countries. These include:

  • An annual short course in school-based health, nutrition and HIV prevention in sub-Saharan Africa.
  • An annual short course in school-based health and nutrition in South East Asia.
  • Working with ministries of education and health to run regular workshops and network meetings in Africa on school health, nutrition and school feeding programmes.[citation needed]

FRESH (Focusing Resources on Effective School Health) is an inter-agency initiative developed by WHO, UNICEF, UNESCO and the World Bank, incorporating the experience and expertise of numerous other agencies and organisations, including PCD. This initiative is a key guiding document for PCD's development work.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ Nokes C (1996), Journal of Biosocial Science [1] A healthy body and a healthy mind? : The relationship between ill-health and cognitive function in school-age children. Accessed 28th March 2012.

Further reading

Jamison, D. T., J. G. Breman, A. R. Measham, G. Alleyne, M. Claeson, D. B. Evans, P. Jha, A. Mills, and P. Musgrove, ed. 2006. Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries, 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press. URL: [2]

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