menstrual hygiene

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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Should sanitation be taxed?

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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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.

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

Should sanitation be taxed?

Published on: 29/09/2019

The sanitation and hygiene challenge in Ethiopia is an important task, and daunting in scale.

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.

It is time for action on all things menstruation

Published on: 17/06/2019

Guest blog by Kenyan menstrual hygiene management champion Daniel Karanja.

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

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?

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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Ethiopia: Full chain sanitation services in small and medium towns - learning note

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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Ethiopia: Gender and equity issues in WASH - learning note

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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Provision of menstrual hygiene management facilities for girls and female teachers in primary and secondary schools in Uganda

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.

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.