Web Portal: Schools for Health

The aim of the “Shkollat për Shëndetin” Project is to promote healthy behavioral practices and healthy lifestyle habits in the Albanian population, with a particular focus on schoolchildren (aged 6-16 years) to control and prevent the significant risk factors for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and other health emergencies including COVID-19 effectively.

“Smart Processes” LLC company has provided a range of services in line with the following specific objectives:

•  Increase the skills and knowledge of schoolchildren (6-16 years old) for effective prevention of behavioral risk factors for NCDs and coping with health emergencies such as COVID-19 through digital tools (online applications), training, and capacity building of teachers and other relevant school staff.

• Strengthen the role of teachers, school doctors, and school directors on health promotion issues with the help of digital tools (online applications).

• Increase the awareness and raise the capacities of school staff on healthy behaviors, proper hygienic measures, and safe environment practices through online training and capacity-building activities.  

• Strengthen school capacities regarding children’s health promotion engagement.

• Develop and optimize applications targeting children with special needs and those pertinent to vulnerable and marginalized population categories.

• Deliver digital health messaging by implementing a social media communication strategy.

• Enrich and optimize the e-learning platform that will enable the development of courses for teachers.

• Collaborate with representatives at the national and local levels to deliver e-education sessions to school staff.

•  Enrich and optimize digital monitoring and evaluation tools to enable reporting of the various activities that will be conducted in the project context.

• Deliver digital messaging for emergency cases regarding the health of schoolchildren, teachers, and parents.

• Administer the School Health Index (SHI) survey as a valuable tool for continuous quality improvement.

• Enable supportive environments in class and school as an institution by ensuring continuous quality

The services have been provided at the national level.

Client: Save the Children

Website: Schools For Health