Blog

Dec 13, 2018
2 min

UNESCO Signs Grant Agreement with the David and Lucille Packard Foundation for Regional Campaign to

Harare, Zimbabwe – The David and Lucile Packard Foundation has granted a sum of $100,000 towards UNESCO’s efforts to reduce Early and...

Jun 21, 2018
2 min

UNESCO launches the Early and Unintended Pregnancy Campaign

UNESCO launched a campaign to reduce Early and Unintended Pregnancy (EUP) in Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) on 20th June 2018 during...

Jun 20, 2018
2 min

20 ESA countries meet to review progress on the landmark ESA Commitment on Comprehensive Sexuality E

Government officials from ministries of education and health from 20 countries in the Eastern and Southern Africa met from 18 and 19 June...

Jun 15, 2018
2 min

Four Countries in ESA Region to Pilot Connect-With-Respect-Tool on ending SRGBV

15 June, 2018 – Harare, Zimbabwe 40 Master Trainers from Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Tanzania, as well as national partner, regional...

Jun 5, 2018
1 min

Young People Speaking Out on Discrimination

Article from our Technical Coordination Group Member, SAfAIDS Many of the young people who take part in youth groups like the Youth for...

May 31, 2018
2 min

UNESCO Tanzania Launches Anti-FGM Campaign in 5 Regions

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania – UNESCO is supporting the organization of a one-month anti-FGM campaign in selected districts within the five...

May 29, 2018
3 min

Memorandum of Understanding on The Right to Health for the Education Sector Campaign signed by South

Juba, South Sudan – The Ministry of Health (MOH) and the Ministry of General Education and Instruction (MOGEI) has signed a Memorandum of...

Mar 10, 2018
2 min

UNESCO to support efforts on ending GBV in schools

HARARE. UNESCO and the Ministry of Education & Training of the Kingdom of Swaziland organized a 4-day workshop from 6 to 9 March 2018,...

Feb 19, 2018
2 min

Comprehensive sexuality education and the global vision for the education agenda

By: Sanet L. Steenkamp, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture, Namibia The core responsibility of education...

Jan 16, 2018
3 min

UNESCO Launches Our Rights Our Lives Our Future (O3) Programme in Zambia

On January 15, 2018, the Honourable Minister for Education of Sweden, Gustav Fridolin, joined representatives from UNESCO, the Zambian...

Jan 14, 2018
2 min

South Africa to benefit from the UNESCO O3 Programme

South Africa is among the focus countries for this programme together with Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo,...

Dec 8, 2017
1 min

ICASA 2017- Revised International Technical Guidance on Sexuality Education

UNESCO, UNAIDS, UNFPA and the government of Cote d’Ivoire hosted a session on the Revised International Technical Guidance on Sexuality...

Nov 23, 2017
1 min

UNESCO 2017 ICASA Side Event: Revised Technical Guidelines on Sexuality Education

#CSE #ICASA #sexualityeducation #SRH

Nov 7, 2017
1 min

2017 AfriYAN General Assembly

The African Youth and Adolescents Networking on Population and Development (AfriYAN) 2017 General Assembly and capacity building workshop...

Nov 7, 2017
2 min

Introducing Our Rights, Our Lives, Our Future #O3Campaign

The UNESCO/Swedish funded project, “Our Rights, Our Lives, Our Future” was officially launched in Paris, France on 3rd November 2017 at...

Nov 4, 2017
1 min

#YouthSRHNOW Campaign to Mobilise Youth Engagement on the ESA Commitment to Launch on 7 November 201

#YouthSRHNOW is a social media campaign to mobilise youth engagement in promoting action on commitments made by 20 East and Southern...

Nov 3, 2017
1 min

Launch of “Our Rights, Our Lives, Our Future”: Sweden’s support to UNESCO for expanding comprehensiv

Friday 3 November 2017 from 2pm to 2:45 pm, UNESCO HQ, Hall Ségur The event will launch the project “Our Rights, Our Lives, Our Future”,...