Towards a Comprehensive Education Sector Response to HIV and AIDS UNESCO EFA Working Group 20 July 2006

Comprehensive Response to HIV and AIDS - Five essential components 1. Quality education (including crosscutting principles) 2. Content, curriculum and learning materials 3. Educator training and support 4. Policy, management and systems 5. Approaches and illustrative entry points

Five Essential Components – Quality education (including crosscutting principles)  Rights-based  Gender responsive  Culturally sensitive  Age specific  Scientifically accurate

Five Essential Components – Content, curriculum and learning materials  Specifically adapted and appropriate for various levels– primary/secondary/tertiary, vocational, formal and nonformal  Focused and tailored to various groups  Develops and sustains prevention knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours covering sexual transmission, drug use including injecting, and other risk factors  Addresses stigma, discrimination, disparity  Includes care, treatment and support

Five Essential Components – Educator training and support  Teacher education, pre- and in-service, including modern and interactive methods  Nonformal educators including youth leaders, religious leaders, traditional healers  Support groups – mentoring, supervision, positive teachers, etc  School and community linkages  Educational support materials

Five Essential Components – Policy, management and systems  Situation analysis/needs assessment  Workplace policies  Planning for human capacity, impact assessment and projection models  Strategic partnerships, including coordination, advocacy and resource mobilisation  Monitoring, evaluation and assessing outcomes

Five Essential Components – Approaches and illustrative entry points  School health  Life skills  Peer education  Counselling and referral  Communications and media  Teacher education  Community- based learning and outreach  School feeding  Adult education and literacy  Greater involvement of people living with HIV and AIDS (GIPA)

Comprehensive Education Sector Responses  All of these components need to be in place and working well to ensure optimal success in the response to the epidemic  Coverage, intensity, quality, inclusiveness, impact and sustainability of each of these components are also key

Responses Tailored to Epidemic Type  Low level – prevention education in context of Universal Access--emphasis on harmful effects of stigma and discrimination, respect for human rights, gender dimensions, and support for people living with HIV & AIDS  Concentrated – same as above plus education tailored to needs of learners who are particularly vulnerable to HIV including women and girls  Generalised – all of the above plus expansion of treatment education including support for adherence

Comprehensive Education Sector Responses  Education sector must begin to fulfill its potential as lead partner in national response to HIV and AIDS  No recipe, no “one size fits all”  EDUCAIDS provides a framework to “set the bar” toward which we should and can work to support national responses

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