Menstrual health in East Asia and the Pacific regional progress review: Mongolia
This country profile has the objective to document the state of policy and programming to support menstrual health in Mongolia.
This country profile has the objective to document the state of policy and programming to support menstrual health in Mongolia.
This case study is part of a series covering Mongolia, Nepal and the Philippines that highlights findings from a research study which explores how teachers in the Asia-Pacific region can be supported to provide comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) to learners with disabilities.
The immediate context for this financial landscape analysis is the learning crisis triggered by school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic and the shrinking fiscal space available to governments.
This research was conducted in March and April 2020 to explore children and young people’s reflections and perceptions on the COVID-19 outbreak.
School meals programmes have an important role to play in the fight against hunger and malnutrition. When appropriately designed, they have the potential to improve the diets and nutrition knowledge and practices of millions of schoolchildren and their communities.
The purpose of this study on menstrual hygiene management (MHM) in the Beni department of Bolivia was to better understand the challenges girls face due to menstruation; describe factors which influence girls’ experiences during menstruation; and present recommendations to create a supportive sch
CONTEXT: Age at sexual debut, age at first marriage or first union and age at first birth are among the most widely used indicators of health and well-being for female adolescents.
Since March 2014 the Canadian Government has been funding the project ‘WASH in Schools for Girls: Advocacy and Capacity Building for MHM through WASH in Schools Programmes’.
Today, Bolivia offers an example of a highly decentralised approach to school feeding as there is not yet a national program.
The experiences girls face at school in Bolivia during menstruation had never been formally researched before this project. Data collection in Bolivia was part of a multi-country assessment of the challenges girls face in schools that included the Philippines, Rwanda and Sierra Leone.