This study looked at the sustainability of Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) in Zambia, delivered through after school youth clubs. These clubs were part of a larger project that also provided economic support to adolescent girls and organized community meetings.
Adolescence is a vulnerable period for the onset of mental disorders and risk behaviours. Whole‐school interventions hold vast potential in improving mental health and preventing risk behaviours in this developmentally‐sensitive cohort.
This report presents the results from an impact evaluation conducted in the context of the WFP school meals programme in The Gambia. The evaluation took place in the context of the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) -financed Home-Grown School Feeding Programme.
School meal programs aim to address multiple objectives, most commonly to improve children’s nutrition and health and to meet education goals by facilitating and incentivizing children’s school attendance and learning.
La persistencia de múltiples expresiones de las violencias de género y, particularmente, de la violencia sexual en los sistemas educativos de todo el mundo desafía la puesta en marcha de iniciativas contundentes orientadas a la promoción del derecho a la educación libre de violencias.
Relationships and sexuality education (RSE) is required to be taught in all state and state-integrated schools. RSE is important to children and young people’s physical and mental health, and their safety.
No matter the location or education level, schools can and should be fundamentally joyous places. At best, schools stimulate happiness through all five senses: seeing a teacher smile, hearing students laugh, feeling a hug from a friend, smelling fresh air, tasting a nutritious school meal.
The case studies from Mozambique, Sierra Leone and Zimbabwe featured in this brief show how catalytic funding can be instrumental to address gender-based violence in and around schools in a short period of time.
The WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) produces internationally comparable estimates of progress on drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and is responsible for monitoring the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets related to WASH.
This study investigated the existing educational initiatives for supporting out of schoolgirls and teenage mothers (OOSGTs) in Tanzania Mainland.