Putting menstrual hygiene management on to the school water and sanitation agenda
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The water and sanitation community, in partnership with the educator sector, is long overdue in taking ownership of the menstrual hygiene management agenda for schools in low-income settings. While the global community writ large is implementing numerous interventions aimed at closing the gender gap in education, attention to assuring schools are non-discriminating structural environments where both girls and boys can succeed academically continues to be limited. Engaging schoolgirls in the assessment process to determine the essential water and sanitation interventions needed to enable comfortable school attendance and participation during monthly menses is critical. Solutions can be cost effective, but must be grounded in the local context, and designed according to the recommendations of school-going girls.
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Girls may leave school early and miss hours of a school day due to menstruation, which would not be counted as absence.
“Girls also may leave school early and miss hours of a school day due to menstruation, which would not be counted as absence.21”
From Menstrual hygiene management among Bangladeshi adolescent schoolgirls and risk factors affecting school absence: results from a cross-sectional survey (2017) · cites this paper as [21]
Girls may not have adequate facilities at school such as safe, private, and clean toilets equipped with functional door locks, water for personal hygiene, or disposal facilities.
“They may not have adequate facilities at school such as safe, private, and clean toilets equipped with functional door locks, water for personal hygiene, or disposal facilities [5, 6, 10–12].”
From Physical, social, and political inequities constraining girls’ menstrual management at schools in informal settlements of Nairobi, Kenya. (2017) · cites this paper as [10]
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- Authors
- Marni Sommer, M. S.
- Venue
- Waterlines
- Publisher
- Practical Action Publishing
- Published
- 2010-10-01
- Volume
- 29
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 268-278
- ISSN
- 0262-8104 (ISSN-L)
- 1756-3488
- OpenAlex
- W2031792615
- Cited by
- 63
- References
- 12
- Citations by year
- 2025: 2 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 7 · 2014: 5 · 2013: 3 · 2012: 3
- FWCI
- 1.91
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Waterlines (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Menstrual Health and Disorders
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender Studies and Social Issues
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Speech and Hearing › School Health and Nursing Education
- Keywords
- menstrual hygiene management, female students, gender gap in education, school attendance, participatory evaluation, low-income settings, menstrual health
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