Prioritising sexuality education in Mississippi and Nigeria: the importance of local actors, policy windows and creative strategy

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dc.contributor.authorKunnuji, M.O.N.
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-02T14:06:10Z
dc.date.available2020-03-02T14:06:10Z
dc.date.issued2018-03-20
dc.descriptionStaff publicationsen_US
dc.description.abstractMississippi and Nigeria are two socially conservative places unlikely to prioritise sexuality education. Nonetheless, Mississippi passed a bill in 2011 mandating all school districts to offer sexuality education, and Nigeria approved a national sexuality education curriculum in 2001. To identify the factors that drove the process of prioritisation of sexuality education in each context, we conducted more than 70 semi-structured interviews with nongovernmental organisations/nonprofits, donor organisations and federal and state ministries involved in the prioritisation and implementation of sexuality education in Mississippi and Nigeria. Prioritisation of sexuality education occurred for similar reasons in both Mississippi and Nigeria: (1) local individuals and organisations committed to sexuality education and supported by external actors; (2) the opening of a policy window that made sexuality education a solution to a pressing social problem (teen pregnancy in Mississippi and HIV/AIDS in Nigeria) and (3) strategic action on the part of proponents. We conclude that promoting sexuality education in challenging contexts requires fostering committed local individuals and organisations, identifying external resources to support implementation costs and building on existing relationships of trust between actors, even if those relationships are unrelated to sexuality education.en_US
dc.identifier.citationRobinson, R. S., Kunnuji, M., Shawar, Y. R., & Shiffman, J. (2018). Prioritising sexuality education in Mississippi and Nigeria: the importance of local actors, policy windows and creative strategy. Global public health, 13(12), 1807-1819.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17441692.2018.1449000
dc.identifier.urihttps://ir.unilag.edu.ng/handle/123456789/7975
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherTaylor and Francisen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesGlobal public health;Vol.13(12)
dc.subjectSexuality educationen_US
dc.subjectNigeriaen_US
dc.subjectMississippien_US
dc.subjectPolicy adoptionen_US
dc.subjectResearch Subject Categories::SOCIAL SCIENCES::Social sciences::Sociologyen_US
dc.titlePrioritising sexuality education in Mississippi and Nigeria: the importance of local actors, policy windows and creative strategyen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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