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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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Adolescents research about relationships among their peers
Research about children and young people is more likely conducted on them rather than by them. We wondered: what might happen to our perceptions of children and young people if they were given the tools to be able to conduct meaningful research by themselves? Will they have different kinds of questions, needs and priorities ultimately leading…
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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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Young Peer Researchers and their perceptions of healthy relationships
Our colleague Rutger van Oudenhoven travelled to Bulgaria for one of our new programmes: Adolescents Perceptions of Healthy Relationships. The children will become Young Peer Researchers, and will help us understand how their peers perceive healthy relationships. They form part of a larger group of children from Sofia, but also from urban and rural areas…
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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…
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Research into Adolescents’ Perceptions of Healthy Relationships
