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Projet Jeune Leader has a decade of experience building momentum for comprehensive sexuality education in Madagascar. Here’s what we’ve learned along the way.
Our specialized Educators harness the power of comprehensive sexuality education to improve adolescents’ health, education, safety, and well-being.
LEARNING BRIEF
Amplifying Local Knowledge and Closing the Gap between Local Perspectives and Decision-Making
To close the gap between local perspectives and decisions made at the higher level about reproductive health and family planning, we developed the “Ampitapitao” magazine series, capturing over 8,000 comments from local community members in the process.
Our specialized Educators harness the power of comprehensive sexuality education to improve adolescents’ health, education, safety, and well-being.
TOOLKIT
Building Community Support for CSE
Through this toolkit, we share strategies and practical tools for how to build and harness community support for in-school CSE, drawing upon our experience building lasting, trusting relationships with our partner communities.
Our specialized Educators harness the power of comprehensive sexuality education to improve adolescents’ health, education, safety, and well-being.
INTERACTIVE REPORT
Collaborative Filmmaking Research: Shifting Public Attitudes on CSE
Using an innovative, participatory research methodology called collaborative filmmaking, we produced new insights into how our CSE Educators have been able to shift attitudes in support for sexuality education at the community level in Madagascar.
Our specialized Educators harness the power of comprehensive sexuality education to improve adolescents’ health, education, safety, and well-being.
LEARNING BRIEF
Learning series: Towards a scalable model of comprehensive sexuality education in Madagascar
To capture (in near real-time) our implementation learnings and processes as we work to mainstream our CSE model in Madagascar’s public school system, we developed this series of learning briefs, each focused on a different strategy for deliver and scale.
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PUBLISHED RESEARCH
Our qualitative, retrospective evaluation in Sex Education
We conducted a retrospective, qualitative evaluation to explore how former participants assessed our CSE program's influence on their behaviors and lives. Our peer-reviewed article about the study was published in the leading international journal Sex Education.
O’Keefe, S., Raonivololona, M., Ramarosandratana, M., Anjarasoa, T., & Leeson, L. (2024). “My life would not be the same”: A qualitative, retrospective evaluation of the post-programme outcomes of an in-school comprehensive sexuality education programme in Madagascar. Sex Education.
Our Human-centered design research study in PLOS ONE
In collaboration with researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, we conduced a two-phased study using participatory approaches and qualitative Human-centered Design (HCD) methods to explore the multi-level, spillover impacts of our CSE program. Our findings are published in a peer-reviewed article in PLOS ONE.
Baumann, Sara E., Leeson, L., Raonivololona, M., & Burke, Jessica G. (2024). Exploring the multi-level impacts of a youth-led comprehensive sexuality education model in Madagascar using Human-centered Design methods. PLOS ONE.