At the preschool level, sexuality education content is recommended, but not compulsory. The themes addressed are: Sexual Growth and Body Image; and Pregnancy and Birth. From Elementary 1 to 6, all compulsory sexuality education is offered as part of the Culture and Citizenship in Québec program.

At the secondary level, compulsory sexuality education is mainly offered as part of the Culture and Citizenship in Québec program, that is, to students in Secondary I, II, IV and V.

This guideline focuses on three major areas of implementation which include health services, healthful school environment and health education. It specifies policy statements or provisions which cover broad programme areas as well as specific area reflected in the context of thematic areas.

This Policy & Standards for Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WaSH) in Schools represents the commitment of the Education Department to sustainably improve the students’ overall health and wellbeing towards achieving a quality education within a child friendly school environment.

The key objective of the School Health and Nutrition Policy is to guide, protect, and promote healthy measures for all learners in schools. The policy will address these key areas;

School bullying is a complex social phenomenon that negatively impacts the psychosocial well-being of students, as well as the overall culture and climate of schools.

This summary describes what sexual harassment means and how common it is.

Despite international recommendations and supportive evidence, there are few examples of scaled-up and sustained programs to provide adolescents with sexuality education.

All 27 projects currently supported by the Girls’ Education Challenge have interventions to address sexual and reproductive health and rights (SHRH).

In Ghana, even though it is acknowledged that pregnancies occur among school girls, there are no standard procedures for handling pregnant school girls or dealing with young mothers who want to return to school after childbirth.