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News, insights, and stories from Projet Jeune Leader's work to reimagine comprehensive sexuality education across Madagascar.

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Launching a New Research Effort: The Power of Comprehensive Sexuality Education to Prevent Violence

We will explore how our CSE program prevents violence, supported by the What Works to Prevent Violence Against Women and Girls programme.

Lalaina Rafanomezantsoa

An unforgettable retreat: Launching the new school year with PJL’s Educators

Over the course of two packed weeks, we brought together all of our Educators to reflect on the past year and prepare for the year ahead!

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How we are transforming teaching and learning in Madagascar's rural public schools

Teacher-trainee Claudine is bringing comprehensive sexuality education to rural Madagascar for the first time — and having a huge impact.

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How can we better support our Educators, so they can better support their students?

Our Educators serve Madagascar’s most vulnerable youth. Here’s how we worked to support their socio-emotional wellbeing, on and off the job.

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Pioneering Emotional Abuse Support in Rural Madagascar — For Youth, By Youth

Adolescents rely on our Educators for help and support, including with an all-too-common issue in rural Madagascar: emotional abuse.

Sam O'Keefe

What We Learned from Conducting a Survey of Basic Health Services in Rural Madagascar

We collected data from 108 health centers to understand the availability and accessibility of health services in rural Madagascar.

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A Spotlight on Counseling: Why it’s Core to our CSE Program

Comprehensive sexuality education can offer life-changing support to youth—like this PJL Educator’s advice to one of his young students.

Maia Ramarosandratana

“My Life Would Not Be the Same”: Findings from a Qualitative Retrospective Study of our Program

For the first time, we captured evidence of our multidimensional impacts in the mid-term on youth who participated in our program.

Tahiry Anjarasoa

‘How was school?’ Hop into a PJL partner school to find out.

A photo essay spotlighting Imito middle school in rural Madagascar, where Projet Jeune Leader has implemented our CSE program since 2021.

Laura Leeson

Breaking the Cycle of Emotional Abuse with the Omena Movement

We are partnering with Omena to help improve our Educators’ capacity and resiliency to address emotional abuse among adolescent students.