Internationally, adolescent engagement in risky sexual behaviours (RSB) remains a global health problem. Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) is an effective strategy for enhancing positive adolescents’ sexual and reproductive health (SRH) outcomes.
Understanding the relationship between early learning and later fertility preferences and knowledge could yield important lessons for public policy in both the education and health sectors.
Across Africa, health taxes – that is, excise duties on tobacco, alcohol, and sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) – represent one of the most underutilised but promising domestic revenue sources available to African governments.
This paper explores the barriers to implementing comprehensive sexuality education in Egypt’s formal education system and highlights how institutional silence, gender norms, and misinformation continue to endanger young people’s health and autonomy.
This study explored teenage mothers' narratives on challenges and resilience in alternative secondary education pathways (ASEP).
Zambia has witnessed a surge in teenage pregnancies at the primary school level since the introduction of the school pregnancy re-entry policy (REP) in 1997, which replaced the expulsion policy, resulting in some stakeholders questioning its worth.
The Kaagapay program supports parents, guardians and caregivers of public school learners in strengthening home-based learning and complementing classroom instruction, encouraging positive discipline, and promoting safe, nurturing, and inclusive learning environments.
Across Eastern and Southern Africa, many pregnant and parenting adolescents remain excluded from school despite growing commitments to their right to education.
“Characteristics, experiences and outcomes of children registered – and not registered, when entitled – for free school meals” is an output of a wider project funded by the Nuffield Foundation: “What has FSM measured and what are the implications?” It is published alongside the project’s main pub
This project explored the free school meals (FSM) measure in the National Pupil Database, and its use in research, policymaking, and practice.