Period Empowerment Network seeks to strengthen the civic spirit and skills set of youth and youth workers in raising awareness on menstrual health, hygiene and management by developing training programmes on planning, designing, delivering, and evaluating community and campaign-based interventions and strategies by non-formal educational practices in the field of youth education, as a means to foster menstrual health and hygiene education in youth work.
The project overall objective is the promotion of menstrual health and hygiene awareness, periods messages, attitudes, tools, resources, and policies through strategic cooperation and mutual learning to develop the approaches capable of challenging social-cultural-gender myths, stigma, and taboos surrounding menstruation and periods to advocate for and foster menstrual health and hygiene education in schools, in the overall youth work and within society.
Project's results at the output level is the creation and production of menstrual health and hygiene management pedagogical materials and guidelines with resources, non-formal learning methods and activities to improve and develop menstrual health awareness, knowledge, skills and attitudes of youth workers for their professional development as a means to foster the pathways to youth empowerment in menstrual health and hygiene awareness in youth work.
Project's results at the outcome level is to improve youth workers’ menstrual health and hygiene management knowledge to meet their essential teaching and training needs at the organisational level: through research, identify and develop training resources that meet their learning needs; through training courses, strengthen their capacities and skills to plan and design effective menstrual health awareness interventions; and through community and media-based actions interact and engage with youth at community level. |
12 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE
IN YOUTH’S EDUCATION
90 PROJECTS EXECUTED
80 PARTNERS ENGAGED
1500 YOUTHS REACHED