5: Government 'walking the talk'
Initiative 5 involves government 'walking the talk'.
What's happening?
- This initiative is about encouraging change, sharing ideas and providing resources that support opportunities for workplace physical activity and healthy food choices. Lead officials will encourage departments/agencies to develop healthy nutrition and physical activity plans and provide resources, ideas and support to help them design programmes that will work for them.
- The Ministries of Health, Education, Youth Development, and SPARC will participate in the initial pilot of this initiative and the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Youth Development will be the first to trial the programme.
- This work has commenced with a baseline questionnaire and organisational audit of the Ministry of Health and SPARC in terms of the opportunities and barriers to incorporating physical activity and healthy nutrition decisions. This data will provide a means to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of the programme and inform its development. The initiatives and resources are being developed by these agencies and will then be promoted to other departments and agencies during 2008.
Who's involved?
SPARC and the Ministry of Health are leading this initiative.
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Updated | 21 Sep 2007.
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