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to improve and maintain the standards of education in all Maldivian schools.
They also conduct independent evaluations to identify the improvements in
the standard and quality of the education provided. Further, their school
health and safety section is mandated to improve the delivery of adolescent
RH information to all schools and communities.
ESQID developed the Life Skills packages to the schools in Maldives in
collaboration with the Youth Health Café (YHC). YHC was started by the
Ministry of Youth and Sports with UNDP’s financial assistance targeted at out
of school youth. With the help of YHC, the Life Skills packages four and five are
provided to the out of school youth. Additionally, it must be noted that despite
the fact that Life Skills programmes had not been started in all of the schools,
those which have already established Life Skills sessions; have trained
individuals to take these sessions. Furthermore, these programmes have
incorporated drug abuse as a topic in the Life Skills package and YHC were
conducting this programme in 52 schools.
The Life skills module 4, provided by the Youth Ministry, is the only module
which has any RH related information. This module covers a component on
the spread of HIV.
5.2 Health Ministry
The mandate of Ministry of Health (MOH) includes establishing a system for
health, well‐being and social protection of the people, providing affordable,
accessible and good quality healthcare services and rehabilitation services. It
also includes strengthening the mechanisms for protecting the rights of
children, women, persons with disabilities and the elderly while sustaining the
quality of the healthcare and social protection services. Over the years, the
Ministry has worked tirelessly to implement the most appropriate health
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