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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Scripted Lesson Plans: Enhancing quality delivery of sexuality education at scale
This brief explains why PJL adopted a fully scripted curriculum for its sexuality education teachers, and the results of making the switch.
Our curriculum — and how that curriculum is taught — is a foundational component of this new subject. In 2019, we made the decision to fully script lesson plans in the multi-year curriculum. With that change, we saw increased consistency and quality of teaching. We also saw improved buy-in from teachers and government partners, which has facilitated adoption and scale-up. Scripted lesson plans also allowed us to embed two critical characteristics into the curriculum: participatory pedagogy and gender-transformative content.
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
From Classroom to Community: A Study of the Multi-Level Impacts of a Comprehensive Sexuality Education School Subject in Madagascar through Collaborative Filmmaking
Through Collaborative Filmmaking, a participatory visual research methodology, CSE teachers in Madagascar's rural public middle schools documented how the subject can positively transform a school community
“My life would not be the same”: A qualitative, retrospective evaluation of the post-programme outcomes of an in-school comprehensive sexuality education programme in Madagascar
A retrospective study, published in Sex Education, into how PJL's CSE program shaped former learners’ lives a few years after they participated in the program