Table 7 Examples of possible actions that could be undertaken by the stakeholders of the community platform (module 3)

Local municipality (public health authorities) and local politicians

- Contribute to national obesity prevention plans

- Ensure that all young people have access to youth sports and recreation programs

- Promote alternatives for play such as involvement in local organizations (structured activities for children in safe environment for minimal cost)

- Support and encourage the development of safe routes in the municipality (especially the routes to schools): include sidewalks/footpaths on all new roads and upgrade the existing roads

- Taking vans with physical activity equipment into neighbourhoods that do not have access to physical activity facilities.

Private sector (food companies, grocery stores)

- Organisation of shopping tours, grocery taste tests, cooking demonstrations, nutrition labelling

- Promote water and healthy food products like fruit and vegetables

- Provide easy recipes with fruit and/or vegetables that are typical for a certain season, provide ideas to drink water in several ways (e.g. with a leaflet of mint, with pieces of apple, ...), provide and promote healthy food, e.g. quality fruits and vegetables

- Provide healthy options on children's menus

Working groups of the schools/kindergartens

- Organise extracurricular physical activity programs

- Promote physical activity by disseminating information about community-based sports and recreation programs and help these programs to gain access to school facilities outside of school hours

- Enable more after-school care programs to provide regular opportunities for active, physical play

- Remove vending machines, particularly soft-drink machines

- School pricing incentives that favour low- over high-energy density foods

- Promote active commuting to schools (e.g. mapping of safe routes to school, walk/bicycle to school days, walking school buses, bicycle trains)

Sport and youth organizations

- Provide and promote free water during the activities

- Stimulate the children not to bring sugar sweetened beverages

- Stimulate the children to bring fruit and/or vegetables instead of unhealthy snacks

- Organise activities in which the family of the children can participate (family events)

Health care providers

- Provide assessment, counselling and referral on physical activity, diet, stress, coping and relaxation as part of health care

- Encourage parents to be role models for their children in the field of physical activity, diet, stress, coping and relaxation