Children in All Policies 2030

Sivile Senza: Adapting the Diabetes Prevention Programme for a developing world context

5 September 2021

Demographic profiling of postgraduate students in the SOPH

8 September 2021

PI

Team Members

The School of Public Health, with its South African partners, are exploring how child health and wellbeing indicators can drive change through multisectoral policy processes in the Western Cape, South Africa.

Project period

30 May 2023 – 30 August 2024

Project Summary

Progress for child and adolescent health has stalled in recent years, placing the health and future of the next generation at risk of not reaching their developmental potential.

A global collaboration between the WHO, UNICEF, The Lancet, and University College London (UCL) brought together researchers, policy makers, advocates, political leaders and, most importantly, children to drive policy change culminating in the WHO-UNICEF-Lancet Commission report published in February 2020. The UCL Secretariat of the ‘Children in All Policies 2030 Initiative’ (CAP2030) supports and co-ordinates a global collaboration to take forward the recommendations of the Commission. Cross-sectoral activities have emphasised the building of lasting partnerships for children at global, regional, and country level – beginning in three to five countries. To support countries in tracking progress for child health and well-being, CAP 2030 developed and released the Child Health and Wellbeing Dashboard in 2022.

The SOPH, in partnership with the Health Systems Unit at the South African Medical Research Council and Mark Tomlinson from the Department of Global Health at Stellenbosch University, have played a key role in developing and promoting this agenda including leading work on community and multi-sectoral approaches to addressing alcohol as a determinant of children’s and adolescent’s health and wellbeing in South Africa. SOPH is now working on a project to explore how child health and wellbeing indictors can drive change through multisectoral policy processes in the Western Cape, South Africa.