The Ghana Education Service (GES) has held a stakeholder engagement on the controversial Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) in Accra.
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The event was an opportunity to educate those opposed to the introduction of the CSE into the basic school curriculum.
The stakeholders, made up of religious groups, non-governmental organisations and Council of State among others were given the opportunity to state their position on the matter.
Director General of the GES, Professor Kwasi Opoku Amankwah disclosed this on Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen programme Friday.
He said after deliberations, the stakeholders were given a month to study the new outline on the CSE draft document and make inputs before it can be implemented.
The GES boss stressed that the introduction of CSE into the basic school curriculum will not undermine Ghanaian cultural norms.
He maintained that, pupils will be taught various modules of the course which is geared towards entrenching healthy sexual attitudes not on gay rights.
The Ghana Government and United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation launched the CSE programme which the GES said does not seek to throw out the advocacy for sexual abstinence but rather it seeks to reinforce it.
However, Prof. Amankwah said the Member States of the United Nations are mandated to roll out CSE in accordance “with their cultural norms and values.”