Education. Period. Developing an acceptable and replicable menstrual hygiene intervention

Emily Wilson, Josephine Reeve and Alice Pitt

Development in Practice, 2014, vol. 24, issue 1, 63-80

Abstract: This paper summarises pilot work by Irise International to develop an acceptable and replicable solution to menstrual hygiene management (MHM) in East Africa based around the manufacture of a reusable pad. The paper presents a theoretical justification for the approach and the results of pilot work used to develop it, including baseline menstrual hygiene practices and their relationship to school absenteeism in schoolgirls in western Kenya, the short-term impact of training girls to make a reusable product on school absenteeism using a partial preference, parallel group randomised control trial, and an assessment of the acceptability of the approach.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2014.867305

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