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Young girls listening to teacher talking about menstrual hygiene in Kenya

Review policy and funding to support post-COVID teenage mothers

Published on: 08/02/2021
The deep divide between governmental health policies on menstrual hygiene and the reality on the ground during the pandemic.

Handwashing instructions in India

What’s at stake? WASH in times of COVID-19 in India

Published on: 22/10/2020
Guest blogger Srilekha Chakraborty , 2020 winner of the Ton Schouten Award, shares stories from the ground on the pandemic in India.

Srilekha Chakraborty

Announcing the 2020 Ton Schouten Awardee for WASH Storytelling

Published on: 29/05/2020
Srilekha Chakraborty uses art in her activism for women's health.

Should sanitation be taxed?

Ensuring that sanitation products and services remain affordable through favorable tax policies for consumers and manufacturers is important for...
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Kenyan school girls taking the pledge in past activitiy

Keep focus on menstrual hygiene management also during COVID-19

Published on: 08/04/2020
Continue with menstrual hygiene management (MHM) activities during COVID-19 as so much still needs to be done especially for the vulnerable.

[Video] Creating menstrual hygiene management champions

A video capturing an MHM stakeholder breakfast and exchange visit to Kenya.
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Menstrual hygiene day 2019 : Achievements and challenges in Uganda since 2014

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Daniel Karanja at the WSSCC booth during the Sanitation Conference in Kenya

Menstrual health and hygiene at the Kenya Sanitation Conference

Published on: 13/11/2019
Special children's sessions on menstrual hygiene during Sanitation Conference show need for education and information on the topic.

MP Margaret Baba Diri speaking at the breakfast meeting

MPs call for menstrual health management strategy

Published on: 04/10/2019
IRC Uganda and the Ministry of Education and Sports recently hosted a stakeholders' breakfast meeting to discuss action for improving Menstrual Health Management

Sanitation products promotion

Should sanitation be taxed?

Published on: 29/09/2019
The sanitation and hygiene challenge in Ethiopia is an important task, and daunting in scale.

A menstrual hygiene management (MHM) session at Kitale Main Women’s prison.

Menstrual hygiene management needs for perimenopausal women

Published on: 19/08/2019
Just like adolescent girls, incarcerated women - the age cohort with the highest risk of perimenopausal women - need support with menstrual hygiene management (MHM) too.

Daniel Karanja telling schoolchildren about menstrual hygiene management

It is time for action on all things menstruation

Published on: 17/06/2019
Guest blog by Kenyan menstrual hygiene management champion Daniel Karanja.

Vrouw geeft voorlichting over menstruele hygiëne

28 mei, Menstrual Hygiene Day

Published on: 27/05/2019
Vandaag staan we stil bij de miljoenen meisjes en vrouwen voor wie menstruatie een maandelijks drama is.

MHM learning visit to Kenya, 23-25 April 2019 : highlights

What can Uganda and other sub-Saharan African countries learn from Kenya's successful approach to improve Menstrual Health Management (MHM)?
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Bulandina Tatu demonstrates the making of reusable menstrual pads by women in Batani village, Kwale County, Kenya

Integrating, collaborating and building capacity for menstrual hygiene management

Published on: 23/05/2019
What can Uganda and other sub-Saharan African countries learn from Kenya's successful approach to improve menstrual health management?

Schoolchildren in Ghana

It’s time for action on Menstrual Hygiene Day in Ghana

Published on: 22/05/2019
On 28 May, the Ghana Education Services are organising an event to move menstrual hygiene management to the next level.

Full chain sanitation services in small and medium towns

Behaviour change is not sufficient in itself to improve health and livelihoods, nor is construction, improving accountability, training, capacity...
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Gender and equity issues in WASH : addressing inequalities in the ONEWASH Plus programme implementation to ensure adequate WASH services for all

Addressing inequalities by improving access to WASH services for vulnerable groups; introducing social water tariffs for the vulnerable; involving...
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Provision of menstrual hygiene management facilities for girls and female teachers in primary and secondary schools in Uganda : study on implementation of the Ministry of Education and Sports circular

Follow-up study to assess if the Ugandan Ministry of Education circular on MHM is implemented.
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Elianey Kegel , Sara Bori and Ingeborg Krukkert before the Dutch primary school Emmaus

A participatory lesson in human rights for Dutch schoolchildren

Published on: 25/06/2018
We joined hands with Amnesty International to raise awareness for global water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) challenges amongst 10 year olds.

Uganda's Minister of State for Higher Education (centre) addressing the MHM symposium, 24th May 2018

Take menstrual hygiene management message beyond schools

Published on: 28/05/2018
The 2018 International Menstrual Hygiene Day commemoration in Uganda started off with a one-day symposium in Kampala, during which actors were advised to take the MHM message to girls and women outside the school context.

India - menstrual hygiene box

How did a Bollywood film affect menstrual hygiene in India?

Published on: 15/05/2018
Raising awareness about the socioeconomic, health and environmental context: a WASH Talk podcast.

Pad Man and menstrual hygiene management with Kathy Walkling and Dr Padmalya Das

A Bollywood film has raised awareness about menstrual hygiene, but there's more to it than just sanitary pads.
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Menstrual Hygiene Day balloon: #NoMoreLimits - Good menstrual hygiene empowers women and girls to rise

Keeping the importance of menstrual hygiene alive!

Published on: 14/05/2018
We have come a long way, but educating schoolgirls and women remains essential.

Pride and Shame: Children's painting on menstrual hygiene

Is Bollywood’s Pad Man movie too good to be true?

Published on: 07/03/2018
Checking the facts and assumptions about menstrual hygiene in developing countries.

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