Project Lead(s): Susma Thapa
Supportive Action Forum for Improvement is establishing and mobilizing a Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) Promotion Committee, made up of local women and girl leaders, to improve MHM in rural Nepal. The Committee will become MHM champions, implementing MHM sensitization programs for stakeholders, ensuring water, sanitation & hygiene facilities are in schools, and creating an entrepreneurship initiative to produce affordable and reusable menstrual pads. The project seeks to empower girls and women to manage their monthly period hygienically and with dignity, in a region where Chaupadi, a social tradition associated with the menstrual taboo, puts them at risk.