Marielle Le Mat

Royal Tropical Institute | KIT · Health/SRHR

Background: Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) is increasingly gaining traction within the international community. CSE is regarded as an important means of informing young people about their rights and sexual health, improving public health outcomes and contributing to sustainable development. Context and objective: Considerable variation ex...

Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) is promoted around the world to improve young people’s sexual and reproductive health and rights, and to address gender-based violence. Teachers play crucial roles in enacting CSE, yet only few studies have placed them centrally to understand CSE re-contextualisation in schools. Hence, drawing on interviews,...

Over the past few years, international organisations have advanced Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) as a global policy to promote sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and address gender-based violence in schools. This paper analyses policy adoption, transfer mechanisms, and reformulation of CSE in Ethiopia, a late adopter of the...

By drawing on the case study of Uganda, we challenge common assumptions about education, gender, regional differences and political agency. Comparing findings from four different regions, we scrutinize whether and how educational institutions empower Ugandan youth to participate in society as active, informed, critical and responsible citizens. The...

By drawing on the case study of Uganda, we challenge common assumptions about education, gender, regional differences and political agency. Comparing findings from four different regions, we scrutinize whether and how educational institutions empower Ugandan youth to participate in society as active, informed, critical and responsible citizens. The...

The effectiveness of education programmes, including comprehensive sexuality education (CSE), to address gender-based violence in schools is under increasing scrutiny. Explanations for the persisting challenges with these programmes have so far typically pointed towards ‘culture’. Drawing on a qualitative case study in Ethiopia, this paper analyses...

Although Uganda is not short of policies and strategies to promote gender equality, women’s political and social agency remains significantly low. Reasons are rooted in two main challenges: persisting structural barriers; and low levels of education among women. Both are most prevalent in the country’s conflict-affected sub-regions. Against this ba...

This research report details findings from a case study conducted in Ethiopia in May 2017. The report: a) summarises main findings of the literature review that was conducted within the context of the project (Hague, Miedema & Le Mat, 2017) identifying core components to CSE. b) details the methodology of the case study conducted in Ethiopia. c)...

This literature review discusses literature on Comprehensive Sexuality Education. The report is divided into the following sections: Part 1 discusses the core components of CSE and their inclusion in literature on the topic. Part 2 further discusses the range of definitions attributed to CSE, including its comparison to and synonymic use with othe...

Kenya country report for research into the social exclusion of vulnerable youth (youth who have lost, or are at risk of losing parental care). This report is part of a six-country research project exploring the drivers of social exclusion of vulnerable youth and the outcomes for young people in terms of their human wellbeing, employability and soci...

[In Dutch] The Netherlands country report for research into the social exclusion of vulnerable youth (youth who have lost, or are at risk of losing parental care). This report is part of a six-country research project exploring the drivers of social exclusion of vulnerable youth and the outcomes for young people in terms of their human wellbeing, e...

Synthesis report: The social exclusion of vulnerable youth (youth who have lost, or are at risk of losing parental care) in six countries This report brings together findings from a six-country research project exploring the drivers of social exclusion of vulnerable youth and the outcomes for young people in terms of their human wellbeing, employa...

Sexual violence is recognised as a public health and human rights problem worldwide. Although schools are expected to be safe places for young people and are envisaged as institutions that challenge social injustices, they are increasingly identified as sites where disproportionately high levels of sexual violence occurs. This study seeks to unders...

Comprehensive sexuality education which includes discussion about gender and power is increasingly seen as an effective way of promoting sexual and reproductive health and rights. Yet all too often the potential of good quality sexuality education is not realised. This study engages with young peoples’ evaluation of a sexuality education programme...

This Synthesis Report aims to understand the ways in which the agency of youth – or their ‘space for manoeuvre’ – is impacted (or not) through a range of formal and nonformal education interventions, and how this enables or restricts young peoples ability to contribute to processes of peacebuilding and social cohesion, either in political, socio-cu...

It has been increasingly recognised that sexual violence in schools is one of the major concerns with regard to promoting sexual and reproductive health and rights. This paper examines how boys and girls define, experience, and interpret sexual violence in a secondary school in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and considers from their perspectives, how sexua...

This Literature Review on Youth Agency, Peacebuilding and Education is part of the work of the Research Consortium on Education and Peacebuilding, supported by the UNICEF Peacebuilding, Education and Advocacy Programme. It aims to provide insights into youth agency and the dynamics of conflict and peace in conflict‐affected contexts. In particular...