Official launch of the “Our Rights, Our Lives, Our Future” (O3) Programme in Ghana 2019

Ghana and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on Wednesday launched the “Our Rights, Our Lives, Our Future (O3)” Programme to enhance Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) in the Africa. The Programme which is being supported by the Governments of Sweden and Ireland was also to scale up youth friendly sexual and reproductive health rights services for adolescents and young people. The program is to support delivery of good quality CSE that empowers adolescents and young people to deepen the scope of existing activities to attain an almost full-scale implementation of CSE in six countries also known as the Programme Acceleration Countries – Ghana, Eswatini, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Over 20 million learners in 64,000 primary and secondary schools are expected to be reached on the Programme, as well as 47,000 preservice teachers and 367,000 in-service teachers. The Programme is also expected to reach 30 million people including parents, guardians, religious leaders, and young people out of school through community engagement activities and ten million young people through other platforms.