Menstrual Hygiene Need to Break the silence and Build

Awareness

Assocham

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Empowering Women

Through Improving their

Health Status

Key Facts

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Objective

To ensure improved Health status of women and children in

semi urban area through Menstrual Hygiene, Family Planning

& Reproductive Health, Nutrition & Maternal Child Health in

planned phases

Need Analysis

• The health study, health camps and need analysis of the

community revealed that most of the women were

anaemic and were also prone to vaginal and

Reproductive diseases due to lack of hygiene and

knowledge practiced during their menstrual cycle &

pregnancy

• Program implemented in 2015

Project Reach

• Kulesara Village, Greater Noida, U.P

• Rudrapur, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand

• Donde village, Pune, Maharashtra

• Pillaipakkam village, Chennai, Tamilnadu

• Bagla Village, Hisar, Haryana.

Methodology

Some of the Key Observations from Survey Analysis

After the training over Menstrual

Hygiene, the same lot of women are

trained over Family Planning and

Reproductive Heath Awareness

The focus of this intervention is to

create awareness about “Happy and

Healthy Family”, also the concept

“pregnancy should be by choice and

not by chance” was introduced during

the Program

Program Partners

• Survey and Reporting Partner:- Global

Hunt Foundation

• Technical Partner :- Jantan Sansthan,

Pathfinder India, Unicharm India

Post Training Impact

• 83% of the participant got aware about their body, no. of

ovaries, size of uterus etc.

• 90% of Participants understood menstruation as a biological

process and started believing that menstruation blood is not

dirty

• 80% women started following Menstrual Hygiene

• Myth and taboos differed from location to location, age

group, family type etc.

• 56% participants started using contraceptives for family

planning

• Women admitted that pregnancy should be “by choice” not

“by Chance”.

Highlight of the Program

• Inclusion of Male community in Family Planning &

Reproductive Program

• Participation of Govt. Health workers

Commitment to benefit 3000 women through MP,

FP & RH by 2020 registered in United Nation –

Every women every child program

2020 Project Commitment

Project Outcome

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Total Reach Through MH, FP & RH

Total Benefitted YTD =3024

women, Adolescent & men

(UN Commitment achieved)

Way Forward

• Inclusion of “Men” in Menstrual

Hygiene Training

• Training to Asha and Aaganwadi

workers

• Addition of Nutrition component in

coming year

Glimpse

Thank You

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