On October 22nd, 2024, we officially kick started the Sexmenstrual health and gender literacy project. The project seeks to foster an evidence-based, non-discriminatory, inclusive, and diverse menstrual health, sexuality, and gender education in youth work. The project is structured around a rights-based and gender-sensitive approach as a means to facilitate more responsible menstrual sexual, and gender behaviours among the youth by raising awareness of and empowering young people to claim, exercise, and enjoy their rights to sexual and menstrual health and gender education.

Project’s overall objective is to build and strengthen young people’s capacity and skills to be aware of and empowered to claim, exercise, realise, and enjoy their sexual health and rights through inclusive and diverse community-based participatory interventions by addressing the socio-cultural norms and power dynamics that limit the youth from developing health behaviours necessary to achieve an adequate state of sexual and menstrual health and well-being, and gender diversity. Hence, the project aims to provide youth workers and youth-oriented organisations with Open Educational Resources and digital youth work tools in the context of non-formal education.

Youth workers will be trained on how to use and apply the created educational resources to address youth sexual health, menstrual health and gender-related education in youth work: sexual anatomy, consent, intimate relationship, and menstruation; sexuality, contraception, STIs; gender-based violence prevention. The project is aimed at youth who are victims of discrimination or at risk of social exclusion and youth workers who work with them. They are the youth who are more likely to experience sexism, discrimination, and/or racism such as young women in vulnerable situations due to lack of education, youth with disability, and racial, sexual, or gender minority youth. Learn more