Menstrual health and hygiene education

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1. What is your project? [1 sentence]

Access to Menstrual Health and hygiene education,services and products through mobile application.

2. How will your project use mobile tools and approaches? [2 sentences]

The project will utilise short messages(sms) to transmit menstrual health education and products information to the community. The project will work with local mobile phone providers to ensure a wider dissemination.

3. Who will use it and why? [1 sentence]

The community,especially girls and women.Research has shown that the lack of access to menstrual health management, affordable pads and the taboos existing around menstruation, leads to significant costs in education, productivity, health and dignity.

4. Please list three ways they would learn about your project.

First, working with the community health workers who have been equipped with knowledge on  health issues as community mobilizers, these are distributed allover the country. Second about four million of the population has access to a mobile phone hence on average about 80% of the household owns a mobile phone. Third channel is through the national radio which is listened to by 90%of the population

5. What connections have you made, or will you make, with others [communities, organizations or networks] about your project? [2 sentences]

Over 5000 community members, 10 health experts from water Aid, 5 school in Eastern Province have been trained on menstrual health and hygiene management.Working with Ministries of Health and Education and UNICEF to provide menstrual health education.We shall also work with other grassroots organizations,hospitals,orphanages,prisons and refugee camps.

6. What part of the project have you already built? [1-2 sentences, feel free to include links]

Development,transfer of Sanitary pad production technology model using local low cost materials, development of menstrual health and hygiene education content and advocacy programs,both of which have been tested with end users. (www.sheinnovates.com),

7. What does success for your project look like? [1-2 sentences]

Increased access to knowledge of menstrual health and hygiene management,breaking the taboos that exist around menstruation and affordable sanitary pads for targeted community. As result, this will provide a local solution to mitigate the education,health and economic costs associated with the current status quo.

8. What resources do you need to succeed? [1-2 sentences]

A mobile phone application that will ensure delivery of the program, funds to develop and train on the usage of the application and the monitoring and evaluation of the project.


Additional details:
Please list who is on your team: Sylvere Mwizerwa, Ingabire K Julian, Gerardine Benimana, Alphonsine….,
Expected number of months to complete project: One year
Estimated Project Cost: Three Million dollars
Name: Sylvere Mwizerwa
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Email address: Sylvere@sheinnovates.com
Organization [if applicable]:Sustainable Health Enterprises (SHE)
City: Kigali
Country: Rwanda
How did you learn about the contest? Internet search