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Home » Innovations » 1808-15816

Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) Improvement in Achham: Empower the girls and women to manage their monthly period hygienically and with dignity

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Start Date: 31/03/2018- End Date: 30/11/2019


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.

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    Program

    Stars in Global Health

    Institution

    Supportive Action Forum for Improvement

    Institution Country

    Nepal

    Implementation Country

    Nepal

    Implementation Region

    South Asia

    Priority

    Gender Equality, Hygiene, Menstrual Hygiene Management, Sanitation facilities, Social Justice, Stigma, Water and Sanitation

    Platform

    Behaviour Change Communication, Community Health Worker Training, Peer education, Social Franchise

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