Highlights: The journey towards comprehensive sexuality education (UNESCO)

This is a summary of the publication 'The journey towards comprehensive sexuality education: Global status report'. It provides a snapshot of the status of school-based CSE around the world, which can help inform advocacy and resourcing efforts, as governments and partners work towards the goal of ensuring all learners receive good quality CSE throughout their schooling.

School-based comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) plays a vital role in promoting the health and well-being of children and young people. For many years, countries across the world have been interested in ensuring that learners have access to some form of sexuality education - referred to by different names across settings - often responding to pressing health and social problems such as high levels of HIV, gender-based violence or early and unintended pregnancy. In more recent years this has often developed into a more holistic subject covering a wide range of topics, taught across a number of years. 

As the evidence for the potential of truly comprehensive sexuality education has emerged, as well as research informing best practice, many countries have made efforts to make sexuality education increasingly comprehensive and expand coverage with the aim of reaching all learners at different stages of their education.

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