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It will not be much longer before we know how the international community thinks the world should change, and how much we will support each other to do this.

A delegation from Burundi are in Nairobi to learn from their Kenian colleagues about comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) and how it can best be taught in secondary schools. In July a group of young people, UN officials and government and civil society representatives from Burundi are in Nairobi to visit the Centre for the Study of Adolescence (CSA). This Rutgers partner organisation is implementing the comprehensive sexuality education programme the World Starts with Me (WSWM) in schools in Kenya.

Rutgers worked in Vietnam for almost two decades until 2013. As Vietnam developed to a middle income country, the country was no longer eligible to be supported to improve sexual and reproductive health and rights.

The Worlds Starts With Me (WSWM) combines sexuality education with learning IT skills. This comprehensive programme helps young people to address sensitive issues around love, sexuality and relations. The issues vary from the development of their bodies to pregnancy, contraceptives, HIV and sexual abuse.

While UNAIDS recognizes the importance of comprehensive sexuality education in the 2011-2015 Strategy Getting to Zero, the 2014 World AIDS Report hardly mentions education. Our experiences show how comprehensive sexuality education may be the missing link to achieve the end of the epidemic and make it sustainable for generations to come.

Since 2012, the Teacher’s Union Malawi, together with Rutgers is training tutors and students of teacher training colleges to facilitate The World Starts With Me. We asked tutors, students and alumni of the training how comprehensive sexuality education changed their lives personally and professionally. What do you do differently now? How do your students react? Their stories demonstrate how important access to comprehensive sexuality education is for gender equality, empowerment and sexual and reproductive health and rights for all.

Spring Fever is based on a well established and successful Dutch programme for children aged 4 to 11 years, with a strong evidence base that demonstrates the positive impact it has had.

Mag een basisschool zich bezighouden met de seksuele opvoeding van kinderen? Deze vraag houdt Amerika momenteel in de ban. Vorige week verscheen een artikel op PBS Newshour, de grootste nieuwszender van Amerika over ‘the Dutch approach’. Binnen de kortste keren scoort het artikel op Facebook 3,8 miljoen weergaven, is het 65.000 keer gedeeld en krijgt 19.000 likes. Een uitzending van Fox-tv een paar dagen later gooit nog wat extra olie op het vuur. Amerikanen buitelen over elkaar heen met argumenten voor en tegen de Nederlandse aanpak.

On World Aids Day, 1 December 2015, experts and policy makers from all over the world will gather in Durban, South Africa to explore a bigger role for female condoms in the prevention of HIV/AIDS and unintended pregnancies.

Last Sunday, January 31, the Italian news programme Presa Diretta focused extensively on the Taboo of Sex: cyberbullying, sexting and sex education for young children. The Dutch situation is taken as a good example. The broadcast caused a stir in conservative Italy.

My World and My Life (MWML) is an interactive Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) programme with a human rights perspective for primary schools. It targets young people in the age bracket of 9-14 years old

Using intervention mapping in planned, schoolbased sexual and reproductive heatlh and rights (SRHR) education programmes.

Young people in Uganda have taken a stand against a ban on sexuality education in schools, announced by the Ministry of Gender. At the Intergenerational Dialogue (IGD) on sexual health in Kampala, 3,000 youths expressed their discontent.

Explore4Action is a pioneering research programme, exploring how adolescents experience ‘growing up’ at three locations in Indonesia (Sumatra, Bali and Java) and what can support their positive and healthy sexual development. These important insights will be used to make the case for better services and health education. Young people will be at the forefront of the research and play a central role in the advocacy for better services and health education.

Johnstone Kuya talks about his experience and challenges working as a National Coordinator in Kenya for the programme Get Up, Speak Out (GUSO), one of Rutgers’ key programmes. In this programme six alliance partners are collaborating in seven countries to improve young people’s sexual health and rights.

In 1994 governments signed the historical ICPD Programme of Action. This agreement positioned human rights at the centre of sustainable development, and recognised reproductive rights as human rights. Now, exactly 25 years later, the Right Here Right Now strategic partnership has published a Shadow Report highlighting achievements and room for improvement.

Rutgers a adapté deux jeux de cartes qui aideront à parler de manière ouverte et respectueuse de leurs valeurs et de leurs normes en matière de relations et de santé sexuelle et reproductive. Il y a deux version du jeu de cartes, l’un pour les jeunes à partir de 15 ans et l’autre pour les adultes travaillant dans le domaine de la santé et droits sexuels et reproductifs âgés de 24 ans et plus.

Pour soutenir les parents dans la communication liée à l’amour, les relations et la sexualité avec leurs enfants, Rutgers et CARE ont répondu aux questions les plus fréquemment posées par les parents dans la brochure “Maman, d’où viennent les bébés?”.

Le Manuel des Services Essentiels est un guide complet qui vous accompagnera vers la mise en œuvre réussie de vos programmes destinés aux jeunes et portant sur les droits en matière de santé sexuelle et reproductive.

In Kenya, both girls and boys get trained in school to fight and prevent sexual and gender based violence. The training is facilitaed by our Keyan Yes I Do partner Umajaa.