Publication: The Enabling Environment for Menstrual Health and Hygiene: Case Study - Kenya
Date
2022-08
ISSN
Published
2022-08
Author(s)
World Bank
Abstract
Menstrual health and hygiene (MHH) is
essential to the well-being and empowerment of women and
adolescent girls. Attaining adequate MHH requires access to
at least three intersecting elements: (i) access to
female-friendly facilities; (ii) access to information and
knowledge on sexual reproductive health; and (iii) access to
quality and affordable menstrual products. Each of these
three elements is in turn influenced by an enabling
environment that influences product availability and
pricing, discriminatory practices on social stigmas, or the
standards on design of public sanitary facilities. Kenya
stands out with its comprehensive policies and regulations
related to menstrual health and hygiene, including being one
of the first countries to have introduced tax reforms on
menstrual hygiene products in an effort to make such
products more affordable. Despite momentum at the national
policy level, women and girls in Kenya continue to face
significant challenges in adequately and safely managing
their menstrual health and hygiene. The experience and
lessons learned in Kenya can therefore benefit other
countries at earlier reform stages
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Citation
“World Bank. 2022. The Enabling Environment for Menstrual Health and Hygiene: Case Study - Kenya. INCLUSION IN WATER. © Washington, DC. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/39725 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”