Integrating Menstrual Health and hygiene in Jaffna Healthy City Project
UNICEF (2021)
Published in: 2021
Pages: 11
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For a wholistic approach of any project, the gender dimension should be included. The Jaffna Healthy City Project is also not an exception. The one out of three-sub pillars of Healthy City Project is WASH in Schools. In a gender inclusive perspective, WASH in Schools included Menstrual Health and Hygiene (MHH). There are 10 schools from Jaffna city included for Jaffna Healthy City project. Out of these 10 selected schools, adolescent girls are attending in 4 schools. As such these 4 schools’ teachers and girls included for MHH training to develop school based MHH action plan. In addition, the 16 days #OrangeTheWorld campaign also included in the training to aware the school community to know about Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV). The Faculty of Medicine, University of Jaffna, United Nations World Health Organization(WHO) , United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF), Social Organizations Networking for Development (SOND) partnered with Health division of Provincial Department of Education carried out this training
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UNICEF (2021). Integrating Menstrual Health and hygiene in Jaffna Healthy City Project. UNICEF
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East Asia & Pacific English Menstrual Health and Hygiene (MHH) Sexual and gender-based violence
