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South Africa: The Protecting the Futures Project wins the Category 5 UN Public Service Award 2012 |
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http://www.cpsi.co.za/newsflash.php |
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Tuesday, April 09, 2013 |
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ICT for MDGs, Knowledge Management in Government
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South Africa |
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Apr 09, 2013 |
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The initiative is aimed at addressing absenteeism of girls in schools by providing 278 teachers in three district municipalities training in adoloscent reproductive health and puberty education with the purpose of educating young girls. More than 3750 girls in 139 schools received training in adoloscent reproductive health and puberty eduction and each girl received regular supply of sanitary towels. Sanitation infrastructure in schools was upgraded or new facilities built and incidents of absenteeism in the targeted schools dropped from 20% to 5%.
Some schools reported a significant decrease in the number of teen pregnancies after the implementation of the programme.
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South Africa: The Protecting the Futures Project wins the Category 5 UN Public Service Award 2012 Protecting the Futures project was crowned as the 1st place winner for the 2012 United Nations Public Service Awards in Category 5 - Promoting Gender-responsive Delivery of Public Service The project is an initiative of the Small Projects Foundation an organisation based in East London Eastern Cape South Africa
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