National policy on safety, security and violence-free schools with its implementing guidelines
This comprehensive policy intends to ensure that school safety and security are at the top of the agenda for government at all levels.
This comprehensive policy intends to ensure that school safety and security are at the top of the agenda for government at all levels.
National laws and education policies play a key role in establishing an enabling environment for the development and implementation of quality sexuality education programs.
This is a summary of the findings from the report of the scoping study done in six locations in Nigeria. The aim of the study was to gather data that will support the development of a national policy on safety and security of schools in Nigeria.
Proponents have promoted sexuality education as a means of empowering adolescents, yet it has been thwarted in many low and middle-income countries. Nigeria represents an exception. Despite social opposition, the government in 1999 unexpectedly approved sexuality education policy.
The role of the educational institutions is to provide an appropriate education for all its learners. A stable, secure learning environment is an essential requirement to achieve this goal. Bullying behaviour, by its very nature, undermines and does not promote quality of education.
This report includes a review of policies and strategies on child marriage, adolescent and sexual health (including adolescent pregnancy strategies that often integrate child marriage issues); other health policies and strategies that have an impact on adolescents and youth (such as reproductive
The development of a National HIV Strategy for Adolescents and Young People is in alignment with ongoing efforts to reduce HIV infection rates in Nigeria. Efforts have been made to address issues of adolescents and young people in previous plans.
The National Reproductive Health Policy gives a description of national sexual and
reproductive health issues, outlines the objectives of the policy and provides what could be
done to alleviate the problems and address identified needs. The document is expected to
The first section of this document outlines the background context.
Most countries do not know much about the outcomes or impact of activities related to gender based violence. Gender based violence undermines both social and economic development and the individual’s capacity for realising her or his rights and potentials under already strained conditions.