Schools conduct numerous activities daily that help promote the health and well-being of students, families and communities.
Relationships and sexuality education (RSE) is required to be taught in all state and state-integrated schools. RSE is important to children and young people’s physical and mental health, and their safety.
No matter the location or education level, schools can and should be fundamentally joyous places. At best, schools stimulate happiness through all five senses: seeing a teacher smile, hearing students laugh, feeling a hug from a friend, smelling fresh air, tasting a nutritious school meal.
The case studies from Mozambique, Sierra Leone and Zimbabwe featured in this brief show how catalytic funding can be instrumental to address gender-based violence in and around schools in a short period of time.
This toolkit is for young people and adults working in and with civil society organisations, our partners and youth-led organisations who want to take a more inclusive approach to meaningful youth participation and youth-adult partnerships in relation to SRHR.
"Strengthening Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Young Key Populations in Law and Policy: A Handbook for Decision Makers" provides practical guidance to decision makers to support efforts to end inequalities.
The announcement in 2023 of a new policy to provide free school meals to every primary aged child in state-funded schools in London was a significant milestone in school food policy in England. It meant that an additional 270,000 children across London were newly entitled.
The YouthWise project’s overall aim is that adolescent and young people living with HIV (AYPLHIV), in all their diversity, are able to practise self-care and fulfil their SRHR and HIV needs, in a supportive and respectful environment.
The ‘What Works to Prevent Violence - Impact at Scale’ Programme is a seven-year initiative funded by the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office on prevention of violence against women and girls, focused on learning about how to take small-scale evidence-based approaches to scale.
Language influences the way we think, how we perceive reality, and how we behave. With respect to HIV, language can embody stigma and discrimination, which impacts access to testing, acquisition of HIV, and engagement with treatment.