Right to Sexual and Reproductive Health Education 2016 educating people on the issue of SRH. While doctors, nurses and health workers can play a huge role in conducting such programmes; it must also be understood that they alone cannot cater to all who need the information. When incorporating the subject in the national curriculum it is often suggested that the best way forward is to train school teachers for SRH so that all schools can have at least one trained teacher to conduct SRH programmes. The main concern stated by the responsible state institutions and NGOs is the financial and budgetary constraints faced in conducting relevant awareness programmes for the public, and the information sessions and training programmes for the facilitators. Most often, budgets are either not allocated for such programmes or sometimes not approved and hence these programmes are heavily dependent on uncertain international funding and aid. Another challenge faced is the support and receptiveness of the general public participation in these programmes. Both the government officials and NGOs stated that the turn out for such information sessions and educational forums are always low and that their task becomes more tedious with the effort to encourage people to take part in these sessions. Contrary to this, they noted that participation in political events was more positive. They also stated that most of the schools in Male’ itself were unreceptive to the invitations to carry out such programmes for school children. However, on a more positive note they did acknowledge that the trend is slowly changing with more people taking the initiative to seek SRH related information on their own. 45 CHALLENGES AND PROBLEMS