Menstrual hygiene matters

'Menstrual hygiene matters' is an essential resource for improving menstrual hygiene for women and girls in lower and middle-income countries.

To manage menstruation hygienically and with dignity, it is essential that women and girls have access to clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene, but its currently a neglected issue. 

The nine modules and tools in Menstrual hygiene matters cover key aspects of menstrual hygiene in different settings, including communities, schools and emergencies.

This comprehensive resource:

• Brings together examples of good menstrual hygiene practice from around the world 
• Provides guidance on building competence and confidence to break the silence surrounding the issue 
• Encourages increased engagement in advocacy on menstrual hygiene

In her foreword, Catarina De Albuquerque, UN Special Rapporteur on the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation, states:

This resource brings together, for the first time, accurate, straightforward, non-judgemental knowledge and practice on menstrual hygiene programming from around the world to encourage the development of comprehensive and context-specific approaches to menstrual hygiene.

Menstrual hygiene training materials

• 'Managing menstruation in rural Bangladesh' film >
• 'Making invisible, the visible' film >