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Assessment of non-formal sexual education strategies for adolescent girls: the case of Tanzania
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Abstract This article proposes a critical look at the non-formal education strategies, which have been conducted mainly in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, by four non-governmental organizations, in order to provide sexual education to girls between the ages of 12 and 16, showing the role played by the civil society in contradicting the school conservatism. Clear trends emerged from this study to indicate that sexual risky behaviours, unintended pregnancies, and HIV transmission among adolescent girls are closely related to intentional as well as unintentional reproduction of the power relations, social meanings, moral codes, stigma and silence attached to adolescents, their sexuality and sexual health within key institutions. As a result, their sexual behaviours are hidden and ignored. As schools do not develop curricula for life, NGOs play their role by means of non-formal education.
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“Findings of a study in Tanzania demonstrated that many NGOs have informally begun to teach issues related to sexual and reproductive health as the incidence of high-risk behaviors have been increasing among 12–16-years-old adolescents.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Cardoso, J. C., & Mwolo, M. P.
- Affiliations
- Fernando Pessoa University (PT)
- Venue
- Ensaio: Avaliação e Políticas Públicas em Educação
- Publisher
- FapUNIFESP (SciELO)
- Published
- 2017-04-27
- Volume
- 25
- Issue
- 95
- Pages
- 527-547
- ISSN
- 0104-4036 (ISSN-L)
- 1809-4465
- OpenAlex
- W2597465973
- Cited by
- 12
- References
- 25
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 1
- FWCI
- 1.33
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by-nc
- Locations
- Ensaio Avaliação e Políticas Públicas em Educação (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- Americanae (AECID Library) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- Redalyc (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender, Sexuality, and Education
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues
- Keywords
- non-formal education, sex education, adolescent girls, non-governmental organizations, civil society, unintended pregnancy, HIV transmission, power relations, stigma, sexual health, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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