IM Toolkit for Planning Sexuality Education Programmes

The idea of this toolkit for planning school-based sexuality education programmes is based on the handbook Intervention Mapping (IM) (Bartholomew, Parcel, Kok, and Gottlieb, 2006). It combines tools, experiences, and background information from programmes that aim to improve young people’s lives, particularly their sexual and reproductive health.

The manual's primary aim, according to its developer, the World Population Foundation (WPF), is to build capacity and make useful, but sometimes difficult-to-ascertain, information about effectiveness, research, and theory more practical and applicable in the day-to-day setting of planners and implementers. This manual uses the experiences of WPF and partner organisations in using IM to plan sexuality education aiming at the promotion of young people’s sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), including prevention of HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), early pregnancy, and sexual harassment.

The manual can be used alongside the tool ‘Evidence- and Rights-Based Planning & Support Tool for SRHR/ HIV-Prevention Interventions for Young People’ (EPAT), because both are based on the premise that "experience and evidence gained from work done all over the world on SRHR education shows what does contribute to quality and what doesn’t."