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Since 2011, The YP Foundation has been meaningfully delivering pleasuring affirming, rights-based and youth centric information through Comprehensive Sexuality Education across geographies of Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Delhi-NCR.
To address the needs and concerns and provide stigma-free and pleasure affirming information on changes during adolescence, TYPF has created an intersectional queer-feminist and pleasure -centric curriculum on Comprehensive Sexuality Education for adolescents aged 14 years and above. This has been successfully implemented with more than 13000 young people from across schools and community settings in diverse geographical locations. Acknowledging the demand for CSE, we are making this curriculum and toolkit available for others who wish to implement or adapt this intervention and approach.
This curriculum brings together the cumulative experience and work of young people who have co-journeyed with us as participants and leaders to translate the vision of youth led access to information and rights on ground. It is built upon the evidence that has been generated and collated by different organizations with extensive experience of working in the field of Comprehensive Sexuality Education with young people. It follows a rights-based and pleasure affirming approach and the overarching principles to Comprehensive Sexuality Education as outlined by the Revised Edition of the ‘International Technical Guidance on Sexuality Education: An evidence-informed approach’ (UNESCO, 2018) and the IPPF Framework for C.S.E. (2010). The content of the C.S.E. curriculum aligns with the age-appropriate content and learning outcomes that are listed down by both UNESCO and IPPF.
It also stands on the shoulders of partner organizations and activists who did pioneering work on sexuality and gender issues as well as youth leadership and rights that we have learnt and drawn from heavily. We also acknowledge the support of our donors and partners who have made this work possible.
In addition to this curriculum, a shorter and simpler curriculum on comprehensive sexuality education has been designed to break the stigmas and taboos and provide pleasure affirming and rights based information to adolescents aged 9-13 years.
The Know Your Body Know Your Rights (KYBKYR) programme works to empower adolescents and youth by delivering stigma-free and rights-affirming information on issues of health, sexuality and human rights, and enables them to advocate for their well-being at the personal, community, state and national levels. A key component of the programme is the delivery of a Comprehensive Sexuality Education curriculum for adolescents and youth led by a team of young programme staff and fellows. The programme is implemented with adolescents and young people across locations in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Delhi, NCR.
In 2018, the KYBKYR programme launched a specific curriculum for young adolescents between the ages of 9-13 years. This has been successfully implemented with more than 350 young people from across schools and community settings in Delhi from. Acknowledging the demand for CSE, we are making this curriculum and toolkit available for others who wish to implement or adapt this intervention and approach. This curriculum brings together the cumulative experience and work of young people who have co-journeyed with us as participants and leaders to translate the vision of youth led access to information and rights on ground. It also stands on the shoulders of partner organisations and activists who did pioneering work on sexuality and gender issues as well as youth leadership and rights that we have learnt and drawn from heavily. We also acknowledge the support of our donors and partners (link to donors and partners page) who have made this work possible.
We are grateful to the TARSHI team for their review and providing critical inputs for reflection and improvement in the curriculum as we share it with the world.
In a world that has been obsessed with young people as a large demographic — as consumers, beneficiaries, as disruptors and innovators — the pandemic suddenly rendered them invisible. As a group that wasn’t particularly vulnerable to the disease, the shift was understandable as well. However, the pandemic’s debilitating impact can’t be seen only in terms of death tolls or infection rates; the long-term impact of global shut-downs have to be accounted for too. For the 365 million plus adolescents and young people, this means a disruption to education, SRH services, mental health, and dignity and livelihoods, among others. This anthology shines the spotlight on young people not just as the ones affected by the pandemic, but also the inheritors of its aftermath. It presents personal narratives as representative data and a window into the lives of young people in lockdown.
Find our campaign resource kit here, which answers all kinds of questions – from why access to Sexual and Reproductive Health information is important, to how to begin talking about sexuality with important people in your life!
