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Adolescence Education Programme (with UNFPA) |
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Introduction |
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The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is an international development agency that promotes the right of every woman, man and child to enjoy a life of health and equal opportunity. UNFPA invests in programmes to meet young people's needs for health care, education, and economic opportunity and life skills. It works to ensure that adolescents and young people receive accurate information, especially with regard to reproductive and sexual health, non-judgmental counselling and comprehensive and affordable services to prevent unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS.
In order to address issues related to the reproductive and sexual health concerns of adolescents by empowering them through life skills, UNFPA India in the past two years has trained two nodal teachers from over 3500 schools across the country to impart life skills education to adolescents through the co-curricular approach. The training of these nodal teachers was undertaken as part of UNFPA’s collaboration with the Ministry of Human Resource Development under the Adolescence Education Programme (AEP). UNFPA is now envisaging reaching four nodal teachers from another 2500 selected schools in the country. In this regard, UNFPA India is in the process of identifying agencies/institutions that are engaged in conduct of trainings in schools.
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Scope of work |
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Training of nodal teachers |
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- Undertake training of 4 nodal teachers from 2500 schools (these trainings will be distributed among 4-5 regions covering North, South, East , North-East and West in the country).
- Create a pool of master trainers who can subsequently provide technical support to scale up the programme enabling coverage of more teachers
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Areas covered by Swashrit’s Adolescence Education Programme (pilot program) |
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- Perspective building on the development of life skills
- Healthy growing up and changes during adolescence
- Reproductive tract infections and sexually transmitted infections
- HIV/AIDS
- Preventing Substance Abuse
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