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Blog: Breaking the Silence on Adolescent Sexuality
In Bulgarian schools, the topic of sex education is contentious and often even avoided, leading to a lack of proper knowledge and understanding of sexuality among young people. An innovative research project, Adolescents’ Perceptions of Healthy Relationships tried to address this gap by training adolescents as peer researchers to gather information on how young Bulgarians perceived their relationships…
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Bulgarian youth researchers present their ideas for better sexuality education!
Young Bulgarian researchers become young advocates and present their policy brief advocating for better, comprehensive sexuality education and measures to combat sexual violence. From 2016 to 2019, ICDI and the Institute of Social Studies (ISS) co-implemented a youth participatory research project named Adolescents’ Perceptions of Healthy Relationships, which aimed to hear young people’s perspectives on…
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Young Peer Researchers focus on Healthy Relationships
ICDIs Rutger van Oudenhoven and Steve Smith traveled to Sofia, Bulgaria to meet with our partners from the Animus foundation to discuss the progress of the Perceptions of Healthy Relationships project. Kristen Cheney, from our Netherlands partner Institute of Social Studies (ISS), was also present. The past 3 months, children from 3 schools in Bulgaria, so called Young Peer Researchers (YPRs), have been collecting data…
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First Youth Peer Researchers on relationships trained in Bulgaria!
With great enthusiasm 50 high school children in Bulgaria, from Sofia and the town of Aitos, have begun their 2 year research into how their peers define “healthy relationships”. ICDI firmly believes that to combat child sexual abuse and exploitation, young people must be empowered with essential life skills for the cultivation of healthy relationships. Adolescents tend…
