Programmes

Know Your Body Know Your Rights

Comprehensive Sexuality Education

The Know Your Body Know Your Rights (KYBKYR) programme works to empower adolescents and youth across by delivering stigma-free and rights-affirming information on issues of health, sexuality and human rights. The programme builds young people and adolescents’ capacity to advocate for their health and well-being at the personal, community, state and national levels.

The Relevance of CSE
The Impact of CSE

A serious dearth of Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) creates an information gap that makes young people vulnerable to challenges like violence, HIV, abuse, and gender inequality. It also impairs their ability to access resources for a healthier life and relationships. KYBKYR, through its comprehensive CSE curriculum, addresses this problem by capacitating young people with the tools and knowledge to negotiate around such issues with key stakeholders such as family members, community members, and policymakers.

The KYBKYR programme uses a youth-led advocacy model to create a bottom-up demand for CSE in both in- and out-of-school settings. A three-pronged approach advances this goal: training youth-oriented organisations to take up long term AYSRHR programming and advocacy, implementing CSE curricula in marginalised communities, and engaging with government programmes and policies at the local, state and national levels towards increasing young people’s access to SRHR services and information.

The Programme is currently active in 3 states in Northern India: NCR, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. It works with two different age groups: adolescents between the ages of 9-13 years, and adolescents of 14 years of age and above.

  • NCR
  • Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
  • Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh
  • Siddharthnagar, Uttar Pradesh
  • Rohtas, Bihar
  • Buxar, Bihar
  • Nadwan, Bihar
  • Bodh Gaya, Bihar
  • Jamui, Bihar, India
CSE Campaign Kit
Booklet - What is CSE

In this pamphlet, we explain what Comprehensive Sexuality Education is, and what it comprises. We also discuss why is it important for young people to have access to CSE, and what its relevance is to their lives.

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Booklet - How to Talk About Sexuality

When it comes to sexuality, we often find ourselves unable to talk about or around it without discomfort. When young people ask questions related to sex, the older people in our lives often sidestep the issue, or shut down the conversation entirely. But maybe there are other ways these conversations could go...

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Posters - I Want CSE Because

Tell us why you support Comprehensive Sexuality Education! Use these posters - you can print them out, or upload them on your social media portals.

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Principles of CSE

Printable posters! Put them up in your home, your school or your office, and help increase access to information!

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Shareer Apna, Adhikaar Apne: A Policy Brief On Comprehensive Sexuality Education
Policy Brief

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The programme works to build intersectional feminist lens towards accessing their sexual and reproductive rights. An external evaluation of the programme conducted in 2015 has revealed that the programme has achieved an increased level of leadership, self-confidence and negotiation skills amongst young women and girls. A majority of the participants recognise how the stigma attached to SRHR issues adversely impacts their bodily integrity and rights. Young people in the programme not only have increased SRH information, they also hold a strong rights-based perspective, and see themselves as rights holders. One example of this is Shanti, a peer educator from Uttar Pradesh. She gave timely support to a 12 year old rape survivor in her community, thereby averting unsafe childbirth as well as an unreported crime.

“Before joining the program I had a very negative perception about myself. I have a dusky skin tone and have a lot of marks on my face. Contrary to that, the meaning of my name is ‘beautiful’. So I used to feel really upset and angry about my name. I didn’t love myself. But after attending the KYBKYR training, it changed my perspective and how I look at myself. The training taught me to fall in love with myself. The training helped me challenge the notion of beauty and become more accepting about my body/ skin type. It helped me realize that everyone has a different body type and nobody should be subjected to a stereotypical definition of beauty. It helped me realize that I am unique and there are some really good things about me. From that day onwards I changed my perspective and now look at myself in a new light."

- Female Master Trainer

The Programme has been working in partnership with five organisations from 3 states. The programme works on two levels currently: Building organizational capacity on AYSRHR interventions in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar; Direct intervention and provision of CSE in different geographies and settings in NCR.

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