LEARNING BRIEF
Learnings, Practices, and Approaches for Scaling Comprehensive Sexuality Education
The learning briefs in this series highlight key components of our model — approaches we have tested, refined, and implemented to deliver and scale CSE through Madagascar's public school system.
August 2026
The Starting Point
Since 2013, Projet Jeune Leader has equipped thousands of young adults, teacher-trainees, and community and government teachers to deliver comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) for the first time in lower secondary schools across Madagascar. Along the way, we've tested and refined key components of this model, making it more effective and able to scale.
In Brief
The learning briefs in this series capture some of our implementation learnings and best practices. Each one focuses on a different component of our model or approach that has proven essential to scaling CSE successfully. We're still learning and adapting, but these briefs reflect over a decade of experience of what's worked so far. We'll keep adding to this series over time, so check back for more!
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Teacher Training: Preparing teachers to teach a comprehensive sexuality education subject
This brief covers PJL’s approach to preparing teachers to deliver sexuality education through initial training.
Training is a foundational driver for teachers to deliver comprehensive sexuality education effectively. Our results to date have shown that effective training and ongoing support, alongside a suite of other tools and strategies, make high-quality comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) possible in a low-resource context.
Discover Other Resources
“Empowerment—Fulfilled, Free, and Strong”: Conceptualizing Youth Empowerment in Madagascar Using an Arts-Based Methodology
This study, published in Health Promotion Practice, shares results from our participatory research on what youth empowerment means in the Malagasy context, using the Visual Voices methodology.
Exploring the multi-level impacts of a youth-led comprehensive sexuality education model in Madagascar using Human-centered Design methods
This study with 140 school principals and administrators, published in Plos One, examines the spillover effects of comprehensive sexuality education on families, schools, and communities in Madagascar.
“When I finished my film, I realized that people really needed me there”: the transformative power of Collaborative Filmmaking
A qualitative study, published in Springer Nature's Research Involvement and Engagement, examining how the process of Collaborative Filmmaking shaped CSE educators’ motivation, self-reflection, and use of film as an advocacy tool.