Condom education campaigns that aim to prevent early and unintended pregnancies can be undermined by local gender norms, religious edicts and ineffective sexuality education policies. In some schools in Ghana, both condom education and abstinence only education run concurrently.
The Sexuality Knowledge Assessment Questionnaire (SEKAQ) was designed to assess sexuality-related knowledge among adolescents and future health and education professionals, particularly within the context of school-based health education initiatives.
Sex education supports adolescents in building healthy relationships and managing reproductive health. Studies show that sex education programmes can be effective, but they often ignore the substantial challenges such programmes face in India.
Adolescent girls in India face numerous challenges related to their sexual and reproductive health (SRH), including inadequate knowledge, early marriages, teenage pregnancies, unsafe abortions and sexually transmitted infections (STI).
UNICEF and partners are working to spark global action to help young people thrive, empowering governments, children, youth, their caregivers and communities with the training, tools and support they need to experience good mental health and psychosocial well-being.
Adolescents in Nigeria face significant sexual and reproductive health risks, yet the effectiveness of existing sexuality education programs remains uncertain. Addressing these gaps is critical to improving adolescent health outcomes.
This toolkit offers a groundbreaking approach to connect agricultural production that optimizes for climate resilience and school meal programs, enabling countries to achieve multiple development outcomes at scale.
Poverty reduction and nutrition are often joint outcomes of many public policies and programs which have education as their primary outcome. Quantification of overall benefits for these programs in a common metric is challenging.
Gender-based violence (GBV) is a major public health problem with wide-ranging negative physical and mental health consequences for survivors. The global economic costs of GBV are estimated at US$1.5 trillion. Adolescence is a high-risk period for GBV.
This report presents the findings of the Decentralized Evaluation (DE) of the World Food Programme’s (WFP) Livelihoods and School Feeding Activities in Libya from 2019 to 2024.