The Menstrual Health and Hygiene (MHH) Resource Package by the World Bank’s Water Global Practice (2021) provides actionable tools to integrate MHH into water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) projects, emphasizing gender-inclusive design and multisectoral collaboration. Key focuses include:
Hardware: Designing female-friendly sanitation facilities (e.g., private stalls, handwashing stations, waste disposal).
Software: Addressing cultural taboos through education, behavior change campaigns, and policy reforms (e.g., tax exemptions for menstrual products).
Cross-sector impact: Linking MHH to education (reducing school absenteeism), health (preventing infections), and economic empowerment (supporting women-led enterprises).
The toolkit includes checklists, construction plans, policy frameworks, and monitoring indicators to ensure projects are inclusive, sustainable, and data-driven.
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