The Informed Health Choices group. Guide for piloting the Informed Health Choices (IHC) school resources

The Informed Health Choices primary school resources are created for late primary school children (10 to 12 year olds). We developed the resources between 2013 and 2015, using a human-centred design approach with several cycles of prototyping, pilot testing and feedback from children, teachers and other stakeholders in Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda and Norway.

We evaluated the effects of these resources in Uganda, where we randomly allocated half of 120 schools (over 10,000 year-five students). Teachers taught the lessons over a period of nine weeks, with one double lesson (80 minutes) per week during a single term. We compared the ability of the children in those schools to apply 12 of the Key Concepts to the ability of the children in the other schools, and found a large positive effect [Nsangi 2017a]. In a follow-up study, we found that this effect was sustained after one year.

Project partners are translating, adapting and evaluating resources for use in other languages and settings. We welcome new partners.