Afrique

Menstrual health and hygiene (MHH) is essential to the well-being and empowerment of women and adolescent girls.

The Multi-sectoral Mechanism for Prevention, Reporting, Referral, Response to Violence and Assistance to Victims at school aims to contribute to a safe and healthy school environment by preventing, responding to violence at school and assisting victims, including sexual violence.

On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, resulting in disruptions to education at an unprecedented scale.

Les violences de genre en milieu scolaire (VGMS) ont fait leur entrée sur l’agenda international de l’éducation et font l’objet d’une attention particulière en Afrique subsaharienne.

Ce présent module entend donner des clefs pour lutter contre les VGMS à travers le système éducatif sénégalais.

In 2021-22, Education International (EI), with the technical support of Gender at Work (G@W), implemented a nine-month learning cycle to build further momentum among education unions in Africa to take action to end School-Related Gender-Based Violence (SRGBV).

The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in widespread school closures globally, including in Kenya.

In Madagascar and many other contexts, decisions made at the higher level about family planning (FP) and reproductive health (RH) are often disconnected from knowledge and experience held at the local level – particularly when it comes to issues affecting youth.

The government of Sierra Leone is attracting global recognition and celebrating its policies and commitments toward advancing and securing access to education for girls, in particular pregnant girls and young mothers.

This Strategic Plan is organized into six sections. The Introduction to the Plan provides brief historical background information on the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection's Department of Gender which is followed by the rationale for developing the Plan.