This document summarizes projects in Ecuador and Nicaragua focused on introducing antibiotic resistance (ABR) into education curricula. In Ecuador, the project partners with the Ministry of Education and PAHO to develop training and materials on ABR and health education. Research is being conducted and a 5-module online training for teachers is being implemented. In Nicaragua, the project partners with an organization called CISAS to educate teachers and children on ABR through workshops. Baseline research will inform the development of training strategies for teachers in Nicaragua as well.

1. Latin America
Ecuador and Nicaragua
Child to Child Foundation - CCF
Center for Information and Advisory Services
in Health – CISAS
Status/progress of
project

2. Partners
 Ministry of Education / Program of Education for
Democracy and Life and Plenitude
 PAHO – Ecuador
 15 schools

3. Penang – Malaysia
Feb, 2012
Objectives
Introduce the ABR issue in the curriculum
To develop material
To create a plaform to promote the inclusion of the ABR
in the curriculum

4. Penang – Malaysia
Feb, 2012
 Administrative issues
 Conformation of the basic team - responsibilities
 Adaptation of the Penang Planning to the reality of
CCF/Ecuador and CISAS/Nicaragua

5. CCF and CISAS
 CCF and CISAS regarding the ABR issue
 Health Education with Child to Child Methodology
(CCM)
 Schools, teachers and children
 Right to health

6. ECUADOR
 Building of the key alliance with the Ministry of
Education
 Differences between the current and the previous
situation
 Preliminary research and analysis
 Curriculum
 Meetings with the stakeholders - teachers

7. ECUADOR
 Develop of the strategy for implementing the project
 Develop the background document on the ABR from a
holistic perspective, applied to the health education on
the schools with the CCM
 Develop of the draft of the training proposal – the Sumak
Kawsay framework

8. ECUADOR
 Alliance with PAHO-Ecuador
 Alliance with the Program of Education for Democracy
and Life of Plenitude
 Workshops

9. ECUADOR
 Develop of the proposal for the elaboration of the
baseline
 Type of research, methodology, questionnaire, interviews,
focus groups
 Selection of the muestra
 50 teachers from 4, 5, 6 levels
 Azuay province
 Public schools – private – rural/urban – intercultural schools

10. ECUADOR
 Objectives of the research
 To evaluate
 To improve the develop of the training

11. ECUADOR
TRA INING PR OPOSAL
Face to face session: 8 hours
E-learning: 16 hours
5 modules – 5 months – January –may 2013
Integrate the proposal into the curriculum
Each module has a small team, and there is coordination each other
The first and the second module are being developed
Along the program will be re-elaboration of the proposal with the teachers to improve the

12. Official Launching of the Program
Educación en salud escolar,
con énfasis en enfermedades infecciosas
y resistencia a los antibióticos,
en el contexto del Sumak Kawsay

13. Documentation
 In order to reflect and syatematize the the experience
 Process Documentation
 Next week 4 schools will be documenting

14. ECUADOR
PAHO support
Reviewing of the training material
Funding suppport
Capacity building in e-learning education
 Two workshops in december
Use of the Virtual Campus
Advocay with the Ministry of Health

15. NICARAGUA
 Proyecto Alegremia – children
 School teachers
 Managua and Chinandega

16. NICARAGUA
 Research on the ABR issue on the health education
 Conformation of the team
 Workshops with CISAS’ personnel on the ABR issue
 Launching of the program

17. NICARAGUA
 Baseline:
 La muestra
 The questionnaire
 interviews and focus groups
 The differences
 Sumak Kawsay subject
 The levels

18. NICARAGUA
 Strategy for training
 Face to face workshops with the teachers
 Alegremia training
 Every 15 days – 2 hours – on the themes emerged from the
baseline as the key problems