The government will constitute a multi-sectoral technical working group to review the Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE)framework and curriculum before it was implemented in schools across the country.
Vice President Inonge Wina told Parliament on Friday that a technical working group will hold various consultations with various stakeholders that will include faith-based organisations, non-state actors and United Nations agencies.
She said the purpose to revise the implementation, was to consider concerns and operational gaps the new curriculum may have.
She said the consultations will be led by the Ministry of National Guidance and Religious Affairs.
Stakeholders such as the church have raised the alarm that CSE was graphic, not age-appropriate and offended the cultural and religious values of Zambia as a Christian nation.
The CSE framework is also designed to discourage discrimination against the LGBT community by teaching learners about the rights of such a community and accept it.
The framework was designed in Sweden and is part of a larger programme called Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRH&R) which is aimed as a response to the rise against teen pregnancies, STDs including HIV/AIDS, child marriages and unsafe abortions.
The two programmes also advocate for provision of reproductive health services to adolescents that include providing access of contraceptives and abortion,as a right to adolescents.
There has been a strong move to adopt it as a United Nations standard programme for schools beginning from Grade 5.
Zambia completed a pilot programme of CSE in 2019 and is now rolling out the programme across all schools.
But Hon Wina said following the complaints by many stakeholders against the programme which started in 2013 as part of the Zambia Education Curriculum revision, CSE will be subjected to a broader review by the multi-sectoral and technical groups.
Just scrap the whole thing which more about telling children that it’s ok to gay. This is really shit shit abd shit!
Designed in Sweden and you think it is ok in Zambia too. This Govt is full of Matuvi thinking. How could you roll a program that will teaching kids about ****** abortions, free contraceptives, etc and think you are being civilised? This is stupidity of the highest order.
Dont you even think that it will even intensify shagging among the same kids and therefore more abortions. United Nations doesn’t mean we have same values and cultures.
This program is for the Swedish who ****** surely we don’t want to copy that piggery behaviour as well.
Lucky is the man who is married to that woman sitting on floor.
All knickers in a twist. It is like a country of virgins… OK at least teach them that there are people who are attracted to the same sex and then fill in the blanks according to the biases of your society. Never ever bury your heads in the sand in this 21st Century. It doesn’t work anymore. Consumption of material on the Internet is all the rage. If you pretend you are a closed society you will be preparing a neat explosive state of affairs.
Please, ba Vice President delete that this subject from Zambia’s records even if it is coming with aid. It won’t bring any development to the country (Zambia). It will only bring massive children pregnancies the way things are here in the so called civilised countries where ‘babies’ push babies in prams allover the place.
Subjects such as PRODUCT DESIGN, TRAVEL AND TOURISM and HIEGYNE and CLEANILINESS at an early age will produce engineering and material designers, instill and develop local tourism and and develop a nation of health and clean citizens, respectively. As at now our entire country is so filthy. We need to re-develop a nation of hiegynically clean and tidy citizens. Breed local tourists first. These are the subjects that can quickly develop our country.
Agree to your view, then add climate change i.e. deforestation and its effects. Leave sex education to us parents we can teach our children better. Contraceptive for a child my foot!
We are indeed a listening government. It is vital that a broad consensus is reached. We have to take into account our Christian and African values. Let us not be swayed by the western influences. As a father I will ensure to submit my recommendations
GRZ will roll this program out no matter the resistance from the people especially if Trump loses the election. We pray Trump wins so that this nonsense is shelved.
@2 I appreciate your reasoning. However, CSE, is not even prioritysubject in Zambia. If you think about it- is CSE going to bring about industrialisation and improvement to our national economy and not forgetting hiegyne and cleanliness which are not there in Zambia? So, let’s prioritise and introduce in early learning, subjects which will industrialise our country, greatly improve our economy and introduce in Zambia upcoming Zambians who will strictly be hiegynically and cleanliness conscious. You and I know the numbers of early pregnancies in very young girls who bore babies at seriously very young ages in these so called civilised countries. When I was growing up we barely saw young girls with pregnancies. This could be associated to the readily availability of jobs and bread and…
…This could be associated to the readily availability of jobs and bread and butter on families’ tables.
It’s wrong to teach children that they have a choice to be a homosexual or transgender. In Zambia your child becoming one after all the investment and love that we put into our children it would be heartbreaking for life for any parent. We should only teach our children that there are only two genders, Male and Female. That marriage is only between a Man and a woman whose gender was assigned at birth. We should enshrine this in our constitution because in the west they’ve enshrined perversion in theirs and now they want to export this satanic propaganda to mock God. It’s the devils work, CSO’s and NGO’s have sold their souls to the devil by taking money to promote this.
Please please Zambians, why do you always want to implement strange ideas from the West without questioning? Is it the AID money involved? Are we not aware of the Evil Global Depopulation Agenda? Do we have proof of the consequences we should expect from This War on the Innocence of our children? Please watch this video on http://www.StopCSE.org and see this CSE for what it is, a fishing rod for pedophiles!
I do understand there are cultural sensitivities here, but I would always advocate for more knowledge through education. The evidence is that better sex education is key in the fight against HIV and the other issues mentioned.
I see some very interesting comments from people living in Western countries. I’m particularly disappointed with the homophobia from those living in Britain. Perhaps black people should be deprived of the human rights that they’re starting to enjoy and be treated like second class criminals, you know, like it used to be. Clearly you homophobes don’t believe in equality.
What are you talking about? What is your view? People who disagree with you are not less intelligent get this and stick it into your head.