The Our Rights, Our Lives, Our Future (O3) programme, implemented by UNESCO, has a vision of a sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) where all adolescents and young people (AYP) attain positive health, education, and gender equality outcomes.
The Government of Botswana recognizes that adolescent well-being is critical to achieving sustainable development because of its youthful population. Out of a population of 2.3 million, 30.3 percent of the population is aged 10-24 years.
School feeding is essential for promoting education, health, peace and social cohesion. At a time when countries and their partners are evaluating strategies to reduce chronic malnutrition, malnutrition and poverty, the discussion of school feeding models becomes imperative.
This document, developed for, and in collaboration with, the Pan-Canadian Joint Consortium for School Health (JCSH), outlines a set of Canadian Standards and Indicators for HPS.
Rwanda’s National School Feeding Programme has expanded rapidly within very few years. Based on the National Comprehensive School Feeding Policy of 2019, the programme provides hot meals to all students in all public or government-supported pre-primary, primary and secondary schools since 2020.
The 2022-2030 National Youth Friendly Health Services Strategy follows the expiry of the 2015–2020 Strategy which was being implemented for the past five years.
Currently, the Government of Uganda through the Ministry of Education and Sports (MoES) follows the Revised Guidelines on Prevention and Management of Teenage Pregnancy in School Settings.
Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) has significant potential to contribute to the health and well-being of adolescents and young people.
This paper presents the results of formative research conducted from January to June 2020 in the Department of Atlántico, Caribbean region of Colombia, whose findings were used as inputs to design the national strategy for comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) outside school – Tírala Plena – in
The focus of this editorial is to consolidate and present adolescents’ and youth perspectives on the importance of tailoring out-of-school comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) programmes to the needs of marginalised youth, considering mitigation approaches implemented by the United Nations Pop