The journey towards comprehensive sexuality education: Global status report

The journey towards comprehensive sexuality education: Global status report

Publication year: 2021

Comprehensive sexuality education is central to children and young people’s health and well-being, equipping them with the knowledge and skills they need to make healthy, informed, and responsible choices in their lives, including to prevent HIV and promote gender equality.

This report seeks to provide an analysis of countries’ progress towards delivering good quality school-based comprehensive sexuality education to all learners around the world.

The report is intended to help inform continued advocacy and resourcing efforts, as governments and partners work towards the goal of ensuring all learners receive good quality comprehensive sexuality education throughout their schooling.

The review maps out a number of forward-looking recommendations to countries, including actions to ensure implementation of policies and programmes that:

  • support the availability of good quality comprehensive sexuality education for all learners;
  • increase investments in quality curriculum reform and teacher training; and
  • strengthen monitoring of the implementation of comprehensive sexuality education.

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Publishing entities

 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UN-AIDS) United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) World Health Organization (WHO)
Education HIV and AIDS Health Prevention Schooling Sexual and reproductive health and rights Training

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