IPPF (International Planned Parenthood Federation. 2016. Everyone's right to know: delivering comprehensive sexuality education for all young people. London: IPPF.
Kivela, J.; Ketting, E.; Baltussen, R.; Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands). Medical Centre. 2011. Cost and cost-effectiveness analysis of school-based sexuality education programmes in six countries: full report. Paris: UNESCO.
The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health; Women Deliver. 2018. Advocating for change for adolescents! A practical toolkit for young people to advocate for improved adolescent health and well-being. Geneva: WHO.
Stibbe, D.T.; Reid, S.; Gilbert, J.; The Partnering Initiative (TPI); UNDESA (United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs). 2019. Maximising the impact of partnerships for the SDGs: a practical guide to partnership value creation. Oxford: TPI; New York: UNDESA.
Tri-Ethic Center for Prevention Research. 2014. Community readiness for community change.
UNESCO. 2017. CSE scale-up in practice: case studies from Eastern and Southern Africa. Paris: UNESCO.
UNESCO. 2014. Comprehensive sexuality education: the challenges and opportunities of scaling-up. Paris: UNESCO.
UNESCO; UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund). 2015. Comprehensive sexuality education in teacher training in Eastern and Southern Africa.
UNESCO; UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund). 2012. Sexuality education: a ten-country review of school curricula in East and Southern Africa. UNESCO: Paris; UNFPA: New York.
UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund). 2015. The evaluation of comprehensive sexuality education programmes: a focus on the gender and empowerment outcomes. New York: UNFPA.
UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund); Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung (BZgA) [Federal Centre for Health Education]. 2017. Introducing sexuality education: key steps for advocates in Europe and Central Asia. Sexuality education policy brief number 3. Cologne: BZgA.
UNICEF. 2009. UNICEF strategic framework for partnerships and collaborative relationships.
WHO (World Health Organization). 2010. Developing sexual health programmes: a framework for action. Geneva: WHO.
Available CSE curricula
Advocates for Youth. Rights, respect, responsibility: A K-12 sexuality education curriculum.
The curriculum covers all school age groups and is fully downloadable, with supplemental materials.
Advocates for Youth; UNESCO; UNFPA. 2015. Regional lesson plans: a set of individual scripted lesson plans for comprehensive sexuality education in East and Southern Africa.
A set of 14 individual scripted lesson plans to support school-based delivery of CSE in East and Southern Africa.
UNESCO Regional Office for Southern Africa. 2019. Let's talk early and unintended pregnancy. Harare: UNESCO.
This resource for adolescents looks at issues of puberty, contraception, sexually transmitted infections and relationships.
WHO (World Health Organisation) Regional Office for Europe; Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung (BZgA) [Federal Centre for Health Education (BZgA). 2010. Standards for sexuality education in Europe: a framework for policy-makers, educational and health authorities and specialists. Cologne: BZgA.
Outlines the process for developing a national school-based sexuality education programme and provides step-by-step guidance on how to introduce new or improve existing sexuality education programmes.
Introducing a new CSE programme or reviewing an existing one
ARROW (Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women). 2018. Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) in Asia: a regional brief. Kuala Lumpur: ARROW.
Examples of CSE implementation in 11 countries from South, South East and Central Asia.
UNESCO. 2016. Strengthening comprehensive sexuality education for young people in school settings in Zambia: a review and documentation of the scale-up process. Paris: UNESCO.
Provides a detailed case study for schools that are either beginning a new CSE programme or scaling up an existing one.
UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund). 2014. UNFPA operational guidance for comprehensive sexuality education. New York: UNFPA.
The guidance provides a situation assessment tool with questions to ask and ideas on how to address gaps in teacher training.