The Technical Assistance Partnership—Expert Deployment Mechanism (TAP-EDM) is collaborating with Bolivia’s Ministry of Planning Plurinational Observatory of Educational Quality department to enhance the curricular and political framework of comprehensive sexual education (CSE). The Ministry aims to address the gaps in the frameworks and to develop specific content, policies, and strategies for national implementation of CSE, guided by the United Nations technical guidelines and aligned with Bolivia’s context and approach.
This initiative will conduct qualitative research through the Observatory, examining CSE’s content, communications and training. It will also explore teacher training characteristics and the perspectives of parents and students based on their experiences.
With the assistance of a national expert in academic research, the work will involve research in 20 educational units in La Paz, Santa Cruz, Tarija, Pando, and Potosí and It will draw on the experience of various educational system actors. The Canadian and the national expert will identify the existing challenges, which would then be taken to the National Education Congress in the last quarter of 2024 to confirm the need to adjust and reorient the incorporated curriculum content and the training related to CSE, based in the Canadian and international standards of CSE