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Menstrual health and hygiene management involves a number of interventions that go beyond interventions in schools, but include providing adolescent girls with knowledge, sanitary products, and facilities to understand and manage their menstruation. These interventions are tied to adequate sexual and reproductive health education for adolescents, particularly programming around puberty.

Schools in many countries still face significant challenges in ensuring they have adequate facilities available for girls. Privacy, cleanliness, safety, and availability of water matter. Even if toilets are separated for male and female students, sufficient hygiene conditions require running water and soap.

The World Health Organization found in a study that 43 percent of schools globally lacked sufficient handwashing facilities and soap, a number which rose to 70 percent when considering least developed countries. Providing doors on toilet latrines that properly close and can lock also provides additional privacy for girls.

Further, proper disposal facilities are needed in these toilets for sanitary products, which are also often lacking. The figures around this are staggering.

Furthermore, only 10 percent of schools reported always providing sanitary pads to girls. Disposal arrangements for used sanitary pads were not adequate in most schools [surveyed].

Schools are locations where girls can be provided with these products and facilities, but too often are not. Lastly, adequate and sufficient information around puberty, menstruation, and hygiene management can be provided at schools, as part of or separately from sexual and reproductive health education.

However, many girls still do not receive sufficient information before they get their periods. World Bank interventions aim to tackle these menstrual hygiene challenges. Twenty-five percent of World Bank education projects had components that addressed menstrual hygiene management, provision of sanitary and hygienic toilets, or separate toilets for girls and boys in their schools 43 out of active projects as of February For example, our Boost Primary Student Learning project in Tanzania will focus on improving the school environments to ensure girls feel comfortable to stay in school, including creating more separate toilets and water, sanitation and hygiene facilities for girls and boys, running water access one handwashing facility per students , and incinerators for disposal.

The project will also designate an active menstruation counselor at schools and have a separate room available for girls for menstrual hygiene management. We have projects with similar menstrual hygiene focused interventions in Haiti , Uganda , Sri Lanka , and Togo , to mention a few.

Multi-pronged approaches are key to ensuring girls feel safe to attend and stay in school throughout menstruation, and educational campaigns help reduce the stigma and taboo around menstruation for girls. Join us in raising awareness today through MHDAY and WeAreCommitted.