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Deserve  
Cameroon
Watchword: Let all your things be done with charity
  

Brief Concept Note for Comprehensive Sexuality Education in Cameroon (April, 2015)

‘Help a Girl, Save the Society’
A comprehensive Sexuality Education Initiative



What it is All About?

The role of peer educators in the sensitization and education of other youth on comprehensive sexuality education (CSE), which targets best practices as concerns girls’ and youths’ sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), good leadership, communication for development and the fight against HIV/AIDS and other STI’s cannot be overemphasized. Within the gamut of its youth-oriented activities, Deserve carries out peer education formation in schools around Bamenda. This year, she intends to intensify the project with an added pedagogic touch in the training activities. It is on this basis that a scheme of work has been set with modules that need to be exhausted in 52 weeks at the end of which successful peer educators are certified as competent peer educators. It encapsulates the seven key CSE aspects as developed in the ‘It’s all in One Curriculum.’ The aspects are:

  1. Evidence-based
  2. Comprehensive
  3. Based on core values and human rights
  4. Gender-sensitive
  5. Promotes academic growth and critical thinking
  6. Fosters civic engagement
  7. Culturally appropriate.

It is a means of implementing paragraph 107 (e) of the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action which called on stakeholders to ‘Prepare and disseminate accessible information, through public health campaigns, the media, reliable counseling and the education system, designed to ensure that women and men, particularly young people, can acquire knowledge about their health, especially information on sexuality and reproduction.’

It is also in line with Meaningful Youth Participation, an aspect championed by the International Conference on Population and Development Programme of Action (ICPD), paragraph 6.15 which stipulates thus: ‘Youth should be actively involved in the planning, implementation and evaluation of development activities that have a direct impact on their daily lives. This is especially important with respect to information, education and communication activities and services concerning reproductive and sexual health, including the prevention of early pregnancies, sex education and the prevention of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmissible diseases.’

Caption: Help a Girl, Save the Society

Theme: Comprehensive Sexual Education is Beneficial for Girls and Youth as part of strategies to attain the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s)






Contacts

Project Head:    Mr. Desmond Nji A.
Founder and Executive Director of Deserve
Women Deliver Young Leader, Cameroon

Tel:   (+237)679-834-976
          (+237)699-529-453

E-mail: njidesmond32@gmail.com
                                                            datanga@wdyoungleaders.org












REPORTS
 
First Session: 26th April, 2015 (Orientation)

The orientation held at CAMNAFAW youth center Bamenda started at 3:05 pm with a welcome from the Project Head, Mr. Desmond Nji during which he tipped the youth on the importance of being part of the learning. An opening prayer was given to God to bless the meeting and process of learning. The youth were then exposed to the training objectives, content, expected results, benefits and methodology of application. This orientation meeting was attended by 10 youth and one parent with ages ranging from 20 to 30.




 
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