Building an enabling environment and responding to resistance to sexuality education programmes: experience from Jharkhand, India
BACKGROUND: Despite the substantial need for sexuality education and evidence on its effectiveness, implementing organisations continue to grapple with numerous challenges, especially related to community support and resistance. This article aims to analyse the experience of Udaan, a programme that...
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author | Plesons, Marina Khanna, Aarushi Ziauddin, Mohammed Gogoi, Aparajita Chandra-Mouli, Venkatraman |
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description | BACKGROUND: Despite the substantial need for sexuality education and evidence on its effectiveness, implementing organisations continue to grapple with numerous challenges, especially related to community support and resistance. This article aims to analyse the experience of Udaan, a programme that has achieved remarkable success in Jharkhand, India, to answer the following questions: (1) What strategies did Udaan use to create a supportive environment? and (2) What processes did Udaan use to respond to resistance during its implementation? METHODS: We reviewed programme documents and publications, synthesized key themes, identified questions of interest, and conducted interviews with key informants from the Centre for Catalyzing Change’s leadership. RESULTS: Community support for Udaan was built by ensuring that the curriculum was responsive to the context, capitalizing on an enabling policy environment, institutionalizing Udaan through government-led implementation, prioritizing careful selection and training of teachers, emphasizing monitoring and evaluation, and engaging with community gatekeepers. Udaan effectively responded to resistance by organizing a formal curriculum review, orienting editors of local newspapers on the programme; responding to questions and concerns; and proactively creating positive visibility. CONCLUSION: The lessons from Udaan provide insight into approaches that can be used to design and sustain sexuality education programmes in complex settings. |
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spelling | pubmed-75970592020-11-02 Building an enabling environment and responding to resistance to sexuality education programmes: experience from Jharkhand, India Plesons, Marina Khanna, Aarushi Ziauddin, Mohammed Gogoi, Aparajita Chandra-Mouli, Venkatraman Reprod Health Research BACKGROUND: Despite the substantial need for sexuality education and evidence on its effectiveness, implementing organisations continue to grapple with numerous challenges, especially related to community support and resistance. This article aims to analyse the experience of Udaan, a programme that has achieved remarkable success in Jharkhand, India, to answer the following questions: (1) What strategies did Udaan use to create a supportive environment? and (2) What processes did Udaan use to respond to resistance during its implementation? METHODS: We reviewed programme documents and publications, synthesized key themes, identified questions of interest, and conducted interviews with key informants from the Centre for Catalyzing Change’s leadership. RESULTS: Community support for Udaan was built by ensuring that the curriculum was responsive to the context, capitalizing on an enabling policy environment, institutionalizing Udaan through government-led implementation, prioritizing careful selection and training of teachers, emphasizing monitoring and evaluation, and engaging with community gatekeepers. Udaan effectively responded to resistance by organizing a formal curriculum review, orienting editors of local newspapers on the programme; responding to questions and concerns; and proactively creating positive visibility. CONCLUSION: The lessons from Udaan provide insight into approaches that can be used to design and sustain sexuality education programmes in complex settings. BioMed Central 2020-10-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7597059/ /pubmed/33126905 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12978-020-01003-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Plesons, Marina Khanna, Aarushi Ziauddin, Mohammed Gogoi, Aparajita Chandra-Mouli, Venkatraman Building an enabling environment and responding to resistance to sexuality education programmes: experience from Jharkhand, India |
title | Building an enabling environment and responding to resistance to sexuality education programmes: experience from Jharkhand, India |
title_full | Building an enabling environment and responding to resistance to sexuality education programmes: experience from Jharkhand, India |
title_fullStr | Building an enabling environment and responding to resistance to sexuality education programmes: experience from Jharkhand, India |
title_full_unstemmed | Building an enabling environment and responding to resistance to sexuality education programmes: experience from Jharkhand, India |
title_short | Building an enabling environment and responding to resistance to sexuality education programmes: experience from Jharkhand, India |
title_sort | building an enabling environment and responding to resistance to sexuality education programmes: experience from jharkhand, india |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7597059/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33126905 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12978-020-01003-9 |
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