UNESCO Our Rights, Our Lives, Our Future Phase II (2023 - 2027)

The programme aims to improve SRHR, gender equality and education for adolescents and young people in sub-Saharan Africa by preventing HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, early and unintended pregnancies, and school violence, and thereby ensuring young people's well-being. This will be achieved through five objectives: 1) Support an enabling policy and institutional environment for implementation of school health programmes that include comprehensive sexuality education and prevention of school violence. 2) Support countries to scale up and strengthen the delivery of accurate, rights-based, gender transformative and good quality teaching and learning on comprehensive sexuality education and school violence prevention. 3) Empower adolescents and young people and respect their right to make decisions and drive changes in their lives and communities using digital innovations. 4) Promote the creation of safer, inclusive school and community environments with linkages to accessible, youth-friendly SRH services. 5) Strengthen programme implementation through evidence generated from monitoring, evaluation, research and learning.