United Nations [ Cultural Organization GOOD POLICY AND PRACTICE IN HEALTH EDUCATION 9 BOOKLET GOOD POLICY AND PRACTICE IN HEALTH EDUCATION Booklet 9 PUBERTY EDUCATION & MENSTRUAL HYGIENE MANAGEMENT Published in 2014 by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization 7, place de Fontenoy, 75352 Paris 07 SP, France © UNESCO 2014 ISBN 978-92-3-100011-9 This publication is available in Open Access under the Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 IGO (CC-BY-SA 3.0 IGO) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/igo/). By using the content of this publication, the users accept to be bound by the terms of use of the UNESCO Open Access Repository (http://www.unesco.org/open-access/terms-use-ccbysa-en). 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INTRODUCTION ...........................................................................................................10 2. CONTEXT AND RATIONALE ..........................................................................................12 2.1 What is puberty? ...................................................................................................12 2.2 Why ministries of education should get involved ....................................................13 2.3 Focusing Resources on Effective School Health .......................................................18 3. PLANNING FOR ACTION ...............................................................................................20 3.1 The characteristics of good quality puberty education ............................................20 3.2 Good practices in menstrual hygiene management ................................................31 3.3 Key issues for programme development .................................................................36 4. IMPLEMENTATION AND SUSTAINABILITY ......................................................................41 4.1 Curriculum development .......................................................................................41 4.2 Teacher training ....................................................................................................42 4.3 Increasing coverage through partnerships ..............................................................45 4.4 Quality assurance through monitoring & evaluation (M&E) .....................................50 5. CONCLUSION ..............................................................................................................52 Bibliography .......................................................................................................................54 Websites consulted ............................................................................................................58 GOOD POLICY AND PRACTICE IN HEALTH EDUCATION LIST OF BOXES Keeping girls in school - Uganda’s comprehensive approach .............................................................. 23 Girls’ and boys’ puberty readers – a complement to puberty education and WASH in schools ........................................................................................................ 25 Indonesia – a whole school approach to health ................................................................................. 26 Girls’ clubs ........................................................................................................................................ 26 Peer education .................................................................................................................................. 27 Information and communication technology ..................................................................................... 28 Involving boys in Guatemala ............................................................................................................. 30 Rwanda: a social entrepreneurship approach to MHM ....................................................................... 34 WaterAid: Features of MHM infrastructure in schools ........................................................................ 35 Peer-led male involvement in India .................................................................................................... 37 Connecting young people and parents .............................................................................................. 37 Culture and communities .................................................................................................................. 38 National Sanitary Towels Programme – Kenya ................................................................................... 39 South Africa’s Integrated School Health Policy ................................................................................... 40 Multi-sectoral approach to MHM in Tanzania .................................................................................... 40 Tanzania’s curriculum review ............................................................................................................. 42 Supporting teacher training .............................................................................................................. 44 Implementation through partnerships – UNFPA’s support to tribal schools ......................................... 45 Sexual and reproductive health in Egypt – expanding access.............................................................. 46 The loveLife model: empowering the future ...................................................................................... 47 Key lessons from the first three decades (1984-2014) of the global Always|Whisper Puberty Education Program ................................................................. 48 4 Booklet 9 – PUBERTY EDUCATION & MENSTRUAL HYGIENE MANAGEMENT ACRONYMS AIDS Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome BZgA German Federal Centre for Health Education CHW Community Health Worker CBO Community-Based Organization CSE Comprehensive Sexuality Education CSO Civil Society Organization CSTL Care and Support for Teaching and Learning EFA Education for All EFPA Egyptian Family Planning Association ESA Eastern and Southern Africa FAWEU Ugandan Forum for African Women Educationalists FGC Female Genital Cutting FRESH Focusing Resources on Effective School Health GCN Girl Child Network GEM Girls’ Education Movement HIV Human Immunodeficiency Virus ICT Information and Communication Technology IEC Information, Education, Communication IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre JMP Joint Monitoring Programme of WHO and UNICEF MDGs Millennium Development Goals ME Menstruation Education M&E Monitoring and Evaluation MHM Menstrual Hygiene Management MHR Menstrual Hygiene Reader MoE Ministry of Education MoES Ministry of Education and Sport MoH Ministry of Health NGO Non-Governmental Organization NOPE National Organization of Peer Educators Kenya P&G Procter & Gamble PHC Primary Health Care PMS Premenstrual Syndrome PTA Parent-Teacher Association SERAT Sexuality Education Review and Assessment Tool SHE Sustainable Health Enterprises SHN School Health and Nutrition SNV Netherlands Development Organization SRH Sexual and Reproductive Health STI Sexually Transmitted Infection UKS School Health Programme Indonesia UN United Nations UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization UNFPA United Nations Population Fund UNICEF United Nations Children’s Fund WASH Water, Sanitation and Hygiene WHO World Health Organization WSSCC Water Supply & Sanitation Collaborative Council 5 GOOD POLICY AND PRACTICE IN HEALTH EDUCATION ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS his volume was produced by UNESCO’s Section of HIV and Health Education. It was written by Audrey Kettaneh, Scott Pulizzi and Marina Todesco, based on a background report by Dr Marni Sommer, Carla TSutherland and Susan Wood for the Technical Consultation on Improving