Best of UNICEF Research 2014: WASH in Schools Empowers Girls’ Education in Rural Cochabamba, Bolivia: An Assessment of Menstrual Hygiene Management in Schools

Best of UNICEF Research 2014: WASH in Schools Empowers Girls’ Education in Rural Cochabamba, Bolivia: An Assessment of Menstrual Hygiene Management in Schools

The group’s research on “WASH in Schools Empowers Girls’ Education in Rural Cochabamba, Bolivia: An Assessment of Menstrual Hygiene Management in Schools” has been published in Best of UNICEF Research 2014! Read more about the work in Bolivia on page 14.

WASH IN SCHOOLS FOR GIRLS E-COURSE

WASH IN SCHOOLS FOR GIRLS E-COURSE

The WinS4Girls E-Course was designed by the Center for Global Safe WASH at Emory University and UNICEF to help strengthen the capacity of WASH practitioners and policymakers to carry out rigorous research that investigates local menstrual hygiene management practices and challenges.

WASH in Schools Empowers Girls’ Education in Rural Cochabamba, Bolivia An Assessment of Menstrual Hygiene Management in Schools

WASH in Schools Empowers Girls’ Education in Rural Cochabamba, Bolivia An Assessment of Menstrual Hygiene Management in Schools

Emory University, UNICEF, SENASBA and Fundación SODIS selected municipalities and schools to understand the scope of education and health challenges faced by girls in Cochabamba, Bolivia.

WASH in Schools Empowers Girls’ Education in Masbate Province and Metro Manila, Philippines An Assessment of Menstrual Hygiene Management in Schools

WASH in Schools Empowers Girls’ Education in Masbate Province and Metro Manila, Philippines An Assessment of Menstrual Hygiene Management in Schools

Emory University, UNICEF Philippines, Plan Philippines and Save the Children Philippines carried out a qualitative assessment of menstruation-related challenges girls face in school.

WASH in Schools Empowers Girls’ Education in Freetown, Sierra Leone: An Assessment of Menstrual Hygiene Management in Schools

WASH in Schools Empowers Girls’ Education in Freetown, Sierra Leone: An Assessment of Menstrual Hygiene Management in Schools

From June through July 2012, Emory University and UNICEF collaborated in research aimed to understand the range of challenges faced by girls during menstruation in urban Freetown, as well as the determinants of those challenges.

WASH IN SCHOOLS DISTANCE-LEARNING COURSE

WASH IN SCHOOLS DISTANCE-LEARNING COURSE

The WinS Course was developed by UNICEF and the Center for Global Safe Water, based at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health and is designed to promote understanding of child-to-child, child-to-parent and other approaches to transforming hygiene behaviour. It also aims to support national-level work that helps government partners design and implement WinS programmes at scale.

Equity of Access to WASH in Schools

Equity of Access to WASH in Schools

This report presents findings from a six-country study conducted by UNICEF and the Center for Global Safe Water at Emory University. This research was carried out in collaboration with UNICEF country offices in Kyrgyzstan, Malawi, the Philippines, Timor-Leste, Uganda and Uzbekistan and their partner