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16<br />

FIGURE 16.1:<br />

In 32 countries, fewer than half of schools provide life skills-based<br />

HIV education<br />

Percentage of schools that provided life skills-based HIV education at either the<br />

primary or secondary level in the previous academic year, selected countries, 2009-2010<br />

Sub-Saharan Africa<br />

Eastern/<br />

South-east.<br />

Asia<br />

Europe/N. America<br />

Caucasus/<br />

C. Asia<br />

Latin America/Caribbean<br />

Paific<br />

Togo<br />

Liberia<br />

Côte d’Ivoire<br />

Burkina Faso<br />

Nigeria<br />

C. A. R.<br />

Comoros<br />

Eritrea<br />

Ethiopia<br />

Djibouti<br />

Mali<br />

Burundi<br />

D. R. Congo<br />

Chad<br />

Ghana<br />

Niger<br />

Guinea<br />

Swazil<strong>and</strong><br />

Lesotho<br />

Botswana<br />

Cabo Verde<br />

Kenya<br />

South Africa<br />

Zimbabwe<br />

Timor-Leste<br />

Cambodia<br />

Lao PDR<br />

Japan<br />

Singapore<br />

Croatia<br />

Belarus<br />

Bulgaria<br />

Montenegro<br />

Greece<br />

Lithuania<br />

Ukraine<br />

Czech Rep.<br />

Romania<br />

Russian Fed.<br />

Finl<strong>and</strong><br />

Luxembourg<br />

Sweden<br />

Tajikistan<br />

Kazakhstan<br />

Kyrgyzstan<br />

Azerbaijan<br />

Uzbekistan<br />

Suriname<br />

Guatemala<br />

Dominican Rep.<br />

Honduras<br />

Haiti<br />

Belize<br />

Jamaica<br />

St Kitts/Nevis<br />

Saint Lucia<br />

Ecuador<br />

Bahamas<br />

Barbados<br />

Nicaragua<br />

Uruguay<br />

Grenada<br />

Antigua/Barbuda<br />

Dominica<br />

St Vincent/Grenad.<br />

El Salvador<br />

Venezuela, B. R.<br />

Vanuatu<br />

Papua N. Guinea<br />

Tuvalu<br />

Session country reporting system (Clarke <strong>and</strong> Aggleton,<br />

2012). However, there were no st<strong>and</strong>ard guidelines for<br />

what constituted life skills-based education in response<br />

to HIV, <strong>and</strong> the information was self-reported, making its<br />

quality difficult to establish.<br />

Despite such drawbacks, the indicators suggested how<br />

life skills-based HIV education was being carried out<br />

(Figure 16.1). In 2009, in sub-Saharan Africa, it had been<br />

provided in Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Liberia <strong>and</strong> Togo<br />

in less than 10% of schools in the past academic year,<br />

compared with over 85% in some countries including<br />

Botswana, Swazil<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> Zimbabwe (UNAIDS, 2011).<br />

The inclusion of this indicator in education management<br />

information systems <strong>and</strong> school-based surveys has<br />

been field-tested in some countries, including the United<br />

Republic of Tanzania <strong>and</strong> Zambia, <strong>and</strong> will allow for better<br />

future monitoring (UNESCO, 2015h).<br />

TOWARDS A GLOBAL MECHANISM TO MONITOR<br />

CURRICULUM CONTENT<br />

These brief reviews of mechanisms that monitor the<br />

integration of human rights <strong>and</strong> comprehensive sexuality<br />

education into curricula show scope for improvement,<br />

particularly the need to include additional concepts <strong>and</strong><br />

improve country coverage in monitoring.<br />

Analysis for this Report reviewed over 110 national<br />

curriculum framework documents for primary <strong>and</strong><br />

secondary education in 78 countries 2 for 2005–2015,<br />

focusing on five topics in target 4.7: human rights; gender<br />

equality; peace, non-violence <strong>and</strong> human security;<br />

sustainable development; <strong>and</strong> global citizenship/<br />

interconnectedness. The documents were coded using<br />

a st<strong>and</strong>ard protocol with a set number of key terms on<br />

each topic (IBE, 2016a).<br />

This analysis highlights which topics <strong>and</strong> themes<br />

countries emphasize in their curricula. Elements<br />

pertaining to human rights are the most prevalent.<br />

Among the 78 countries, key terms such as rights (88%)<br />

<strong>and</strong> democracy (79%) were the most common. There was<br />

also some emphasis on sustainable development issues<br />

in about three-quarters of the countries, though key<br />

terms such as social <strong>and</strong> economic sustainability were<br />

present in less than one-third of the curricula.<br />

Southern<br />

Asia<br />

Northern<br />

Africa/<br />

W. Asia<br />

Source: UNAIDS (2011).<br />

Nepal<br />

India<br />

Yemen<br />

Sudan<br />

Oman<br />

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100<br />

%<br />

Countries make less reference in curricula to key<br />

terms related to global citizenship, with only about<br />

10% including concepts such as ‘global inequality’ <strong>and</strong><br />

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CHAPTER 16 | TARGET 4.7 – SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP

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