ListenUp: Amplifying girls voices through sanitary pads and health information
2015 - 2019 • ZanaAfrica Group (American Friends of ZanaAfrica, AFZA)
Purpose
To implement safe, accurate, and cost-effective reproductive health innovations for girls in the form of disposable sanitary pads coupled with girl-centered reproductive health information and resources
Activities
We implement safe, accurate, and cost-effective reproductive health innovations for girls in the form of disposable sanitary pads coupled with girl-centered reproductive health information and resources. We evaluate this approach against traditional facilitation-based methods for impact on girls’ educational attainment, sexual behavior, reproductive health, and self-determination.
We would like to see women & girls at the Center of Development.
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Location of main activity
Objectives
To expand the global evidence base surrounding the role of menstrual health-focused interventions in gender parity, health, and development
Further information
This was a Grand Challenges grant.
ZanaAfrica Foundation is the nonprofit arm of ZanaAfrica, a Kenyan-based social enterprise.
Filter tags
Behaviour change Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Educators Health and hygiene Journalists Private sector, including social enterprises Public awareness, advocacy and civil society engagement Specific to one or several countries Sub-Saharan Africa
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danijela milosevic (milli)
