Life Skills Education (LSE)

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Key Information

The Bantwana Initiative collaborated closely with the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) to establish and deliver an HIV-focused Life Skills Education (LSE) Program to increase HIV prevention knowledge and behaviors for all in-school adolescents. Since 2015, Bantwana has supported the development, testing, roll-out, and monitoring of LSE. The institutionalization of HIV prevention education is a break through approach in the world’s highest HIV burden country, reaching 125,000+ in-school adolescents annually with successively deeper, age-appropriate HIV education across 5 years, with increasing student linkages to child protection and HTS services at scale.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Eswatini

Activity URL

https://bantwana.org/project/hiv-prevention-life-skills-education-in-secondary-schools-lse/

Government Affiliation

Government-affiliated program

Years

2015 - 2021

Partner(s)

Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) Eswatini

Ministry Affiliation

Ministry of Education and Training in Eswatini

Funder(s)

Previously UNICEF funded

COVID-19 Response

Unknown

Geographic Scope

National

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Other skills

  • Financial literacy
  • Life skills/sexuality education
  • Rights/empowerment education
  • Social and emotional learning

Quality

  • Curricula/lesson plans
  • Teacher training

Cross-cutting areas

  • Adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • HIV and STIs
  • Other aspects of sexual and reproductive health
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs
  • Violence (at home, in relationships)
  • WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene)

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Boys in school, Girls in school, Youth

Age

14 - 21

School Enrolment Status

All in school

School Level

  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary

Other populations reached

  • School administrators
  • Teachers - female
  • Teachers - male

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top

Health and childcare services

  • HIV prevention

Life skills education

  • Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE)
  • Negotiation skills
  • Sexual and reproductive health (including puberty education)
  • Social and emotional learning (SEL) skills building

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Improved social and emotional learning/skills and mindsets
  • Increased grade attainment
  • Increased years of schooling

Cross-cutting goals

  • Improved critical consciousness
  • Improved mental health
  • Improved nutrition
  • Improved sexual and reproductive health
  • Improved understanding of sexual harassment, coercion, and consent
  • Increased agency and empowerment
  • Increased knowledge of HIV, puberty, and sexual and reproductive health
  • Reduced adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
  • Reduced intimate partner violence
  • Reduced school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV)
  • Reduced STI/HIV/AIDS

Additional Information Back to Top

Primary Contact

Thulani Earnshaw
Bantwana World Education Initiative
Country Director
thulani_earnshaw@bantwana.org