Right to Sexual and Reproductive Health Education 2016 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 35 AVAILABLE SERVICES FROM THE GOVERNMENT ENTITIES

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