This training course aims to strengthen youth workers’ capacity to integrate Menstrual Health and Hygiene Management into new or existing programmes or intervention in the field of youth education. Through workshops, participants will acquire the skills and attitudes about how to create the menstrual discussion spaces for all, especially for menstruators directly affected by periods.

At the end of this training course, participants:

1. are familiar with the basics of MHM that include the challenges experienced by women when managing their menstruation;
2. are familiar with the social-cultural taboos and myths that exist around of periods, and how these affect girls and women;
3. are familiar with menstrual hygiene management materials as well as menstrual waste disposal for environmental purposes;
4. are familiar with menstrual health awareness that addresses restrictions for girls to accessing services while menstruating.

On a successful completion of this training course, participants: 

1. can present the basics of menstrual health and hygiene; 

2. can illustrate effects of social-cultural taboos around period; 

3. can present the menstrual hygiene materials and menstrual waste disposal and their link to the environmental protection;

4. can develop actions to support menstrual health awareness.