For additional information on the topics discussed in this section, please visit the following links:
Introducing a new CSE programme or reviewing an existing one
The Standards for Sexuality Education In Europe: Guidance For Implementation, supplements the above resource by outlining the process for developing a national school-based sexuality education programme and provides step-by-step guidance on how to introduce new or improve existing sexuality education programmes. Although connected to the European standards, the recommendations and guidance apply to programmes worldwide. It is available in English, French, Italian, Spanish and Russian.
Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) in Asia: A Regional Brief offers examples of CSE implementation in 11 countries from South, South East, and Central Asia.
Strengthening Comprehensive Sexuality Education for Young People in School Settings in Zambia: A Review and Documentation of The Scale-Up Process provides detailed case study for schools that are either beginning a new CSE programme or scaling up an existing one.
UNFPA’s Education is Empowerment offers examples of CSE implementation in India, Mongolia, Uganda, Burkina Faso, Peru, Yemen, Latin America and the Caribbean.
The US CDC developed a workbook titled Community Needs Assessment, with guiding tools for determining CSE needs in a community.
Improving the Quality of SRHR Education Programmes for Young People is a readiness checklist developed by Stop AIDS Now and WPF for CSE programmers to use in communities.
The UNFPA Operational Guidance for Comprehensive Sexuality Education: A Focus on Human Rights and Gender provides a situation assessment tool with questions to ask and ideas on how to address gaps in teacher training.
IPPF’s From Evidence to Action: Advocating for Comprehensive Sexuality Education offers specific guidance on how to create positive, enabling environments for implementing CSE.
Goal setting and prioritisation
The US CDC’s Practical Use of Program Evaluation among Sexually Transmitted Disease (STD) Programs, Part 2 provides additional guidance on how to develop SMART goals.
UNESCO and partners’ Early and Unintended Pregnancy and The Education Sector: Evidence Review and Recommendations, discusses reducing early and unintended pregnancy, and offers recommendations on what is important to prioritise in CSE programming.
Curriculum
Promoting Gender Equality Through Textbooks: A Methodological Guide – UNESCO resource available in English, French and Arabic offering guidance on how to promote gender equality, a key goal of CSE, in all classes.
The WHO Regional Office for Europe and BZgA created a Guidance for Implementation report that outlines on pages 42-45 a foundational understanding of how lesson plans, teacher aids, and student handbooks can be developed.
General Adaptation Guidance: A Guide to Adapting Evidence-Based Sexual Health Curricula, published by ETR and the US CDC, provides general green (safe), yellow (proceed with caution) and red (unsafe) light adaptation guidance for practitioners considering making adaptations to sexual health EBIs.
Reducing Adolescent Sexual Risk: A Theoretical Guide for Developing and Adapting Curriculum-Based Programs, written by ETR Associates, offers guidance for developing, adapting and implementing curricula.
Partnerships
The Partnering Initiative and UN DESA’s Maximising the Impact of Partnerships for the SDGs: A Practical Guide to Partnership Value Creation offers a Partnership Value Assessment Tool to determine which organisations may or may not be good fits for partnering on CSE implementation.
Monitoring and evaluation
UNFPA and IPPF’s Inside and Out: Comprehensive Sexuality Education Assessment Tool can be used by community organisations to track the quality and success of CSE implementation. It is available in English, French and Spanish.
The Evaluation of Comprehensive Sexuality Education Programmes: A Focus on the Gender and Empowerment Outcomes compiles an extensive analysis of many different CSE programs across the globe.
Scaling up
CSE Scale-Up in Practice offers step-by-step guidance on effective scaling up efforts in CSE. It also provides in-depth case studies from a number of ESA countries that have implemented and scaled up their CSE.
Strengthening Comprehensive Sexuality Education for Young People in School Settings in Zambia: A Review and Documentation of The Scale-Up Process offers a detailed description of efforts to scale up CSE in Zambia.
UNESCO’s Cost and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of School-Based Sexuality Education Programmes in Six Countries offers additional, in-depth recommendations for cost-effective scaling up of CSE.
Comprehensive Sexuality Education: The Challenges and Opportunities of Scaling Up is a valuable foundational document to determine whether a community is ready to scale up a CSE programme, as well as what they will need to consider and put into place in order to be successful and sustainable.
WHO and ExpandNet’s Nine Steps for Developing a Scale-Up Strategy, available in English, French and Spanish, is a guiding document for scaling up CSE efforts. It also features worksheets that can be used in conjunction with the guide.