The Global Partnership Forum on Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) was established inDecember 2020 to provide a structured platform for intensified collaboration, sharing ofinformation and good practices, identifying gaps in research, defining a research agenda,informing evidence generation, and support for multi-sectoral advocacy and technical effortson CSE.
Adolescent mental health has become a major casualty of conflict, persecution, and climate crisis. Adolescents who have had to leave everything they know behind to flee to safety are often forced to take on the pressures and responsibilities of adulthood, before their time.
According to the UN, up to 650 million women and girls were married under the age of 18. Most are in countries deemed fragile states marked by conflict, climate crisis, and weak institutions. In episode three, we learn about the issues adolescent girls face with violence and child marriage.
This health atlas focuses on priority diseases measured in terms of death, disability adjusted life years, years lived with disability, years of life lost, life expectancy and health adjusted life expectancy, demographics, and other related measures
The UN blueprint, the Global Compact for Refugees, has education as one of its top priorities. But despite this, many adolescents are excluded from schools and denied a proper education when they are forced to flee. In episode two, we focus on this crisis of education, and compare the plight of young refugees who have settled in Bangladesh and Jordan.
The main purpose of this assessment is to provide up-to-date information on the status of modern contraceptive methods and maternal/reproductive health medicines and services availability in health facilities in Ethiopia.
Adolescents in crisis: unheard voices is a five-part podcast series that shines a light on the millions of adolescents around the world who are forced to flee their homes. They form part of a global community of some 70 million refugees, displaced because of persecution, climate crises and conflict.
Limited emphasis is placed on understanding the gendered pathways that influence mental health, especially long-term cumulative impacts of gender-based inequalities. Exposure to early child marriage (marriage by age 15) may exaggerate exposure to gender-based mental health risk-factors, providing an opportunity to understand the multi-layered gendered pathways that impact mental health overtime.
This study sought to investigate the reasons for the potential underreporting of SGBV in the Somali region. Specifically, It assessed the perspectives of the community toward SGBV and engaged key informants to help identify factors associated with the relatively low prevalence rates of SGBV in the region.
