Empowering youth: the impact of comprehensive sex education on teenage pregnancy in Ecuador
This paper analyses the impact of comprehensive sex education on teenage pregnancy rates in Ecuador, specifically examining its implementation in schools.
This paper analyses the impact of comprehensive sex education on teenage pregnancy rates in Ecuador, specifically examining its implementation in schools.
UNFPA/LACRO se propuso documentar algunas experiencias dentro de la región en materia de Educación Integral de la Sexualidad implementadas fuera del ámbito escolar - que presentadas a manera de buenas prácticas - cumplieran con el propósito fundamental de impulsar el desarrollo de este campo.
School-related violence is a major challenge in many low- and middle-income countries. This is well established by surveys that - if anything - likely underestimate the prevalence of violence in schools.
This joint publication by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the World Food Programme (WFP) presents the state of school feeding programmes in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) as of 2022.
Muchos países de la región cuentan con normativas específicas que establecen la obligatoriedad de la implementación de la Educación Sexual Integral/Educación Integral en Sexualidad (ESI/EIS) o bien, desarrollaron políticas públicas a favor de ello.
The education sector needs to know more and do more about violence in schools. Children are exposed to staggering levels of physical, psychological, and sexual violence, perpetrated by teachers, other adults, and students.
O documento objetiva contribuir para explicitar as diretrizes e os fundamentos normativos internacionais e brasileiros para o desenvolvimento de planos educativos voltados para a promoção dos direitos humanos de crianças e adolescentes.
This toolkit will help raise awareness about the important role parents and caregivers play in discussing sexual health with their children with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Schools are a key channel in formal reporting of violence against children, but this channel broke down with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. We study how widespread such reporting declines are, and to what extent they were recovered once re-openings begin.
The prevalence of school-based healthcare has increased markedly over the past decade. We study a modern mode of school-based healthcare, telemedicine, that offers the potential to reach places and populations with historically low access to such care.