The Global Partnership for Education (GPE) Knowledge and Information Exchange (KIX) has published the results from its project around gender-based violence (GBV) and equity in rural schools in Latin America. Sex-based discrimination and GBV manifest in various ways. This project increased its efficacy by addressing gender roles, harmful practices towards children, pregnancy in adolescents, and bullying from a gender perspective in addition to sexual violence at schools. In a Nicaraguan municipality this project led to the creation of a medical post for the prevention of teenage pregnancy, and in Honduras local authorities initiated the renovation of safe school toilets.
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