The enabling environment for menstrual health and hygiene: case study - Kenya
Menstrual health and hygiene (MHH) is essential to the well-being and empowerment of women and adolescent girls.
Menstrual health and hygiene (MHH) is essential to the well-being and empowerment of women and adolescent girls.
Adolescent girls face a range of challenges that may compromise their chances of completing school or their sexual and reproductive health.
The aim of this knowledge paper is to collect and synthesise emerging evidence, strategies and lessons learnt from CSE delivery in non-conventional settings in low- and middle-income countries. Also, this paper contributes to the documentation of online SRHR service delivery during COVID-19.
School-based comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) can help adolescents acquire crucial knowledge and skills to achieve their full potential, particularly in low- and middle-income countries with higher rates of negative sexual and reproductive outcomes.
Evidence for the positive outcomes of comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) on adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH) is well documented.
Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) is a key component of efforts to improve sexual and reproductive outcomes for young people. While many governments have established policies and curricula for CSE, there are no quantitative measures of the quality of their implementation in schools.
Impact evaluations focused on school absenteeism commonly use school records of untested quality or expensive spot-check data.
The successful implementation of comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) programmes in schools depends on the development and implementation of strong policy in support of CSE.
School-based comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) can help adolescents achieve their full potential and realize their sexual and reproductive health and rights.
The report documents the process of scaling up comprehensive sexuality education and the status of sexuality education in East and Southern Africa.