PERIOD Empowerment Network Erasmus Project

Project Title

PERIOD Empowerment Network

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Capacity Building for youth in ACP countries, Latin America and Asia

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

The idea that menstruation is dirty, shameful and unmentionable keeps girls and women away from school and out of the workforce. A woman without access to sanitary products may have to stay at home during her periods, while a garment worker risks losing her job for getting off to change her pad before break time, provided there are facilities for her to manage her menstruation at all. Even women working in office environments and girls in schools with conveniently located toilets and flexible schedules go to great lengths to hide periods. Our societies need to be re-educated about menstruation, re-frame its purpose and allow women to be women without any stigma. If open conversation erodes taboos, this project offers one way to get people talking and be re-educated about menstrual health and hygiene. Such conversations and education can’t be designed by men for women or by women for women; both men and women need to participate in designing, implementing and monitoring conversations and education around menstrual health and hygiene. In this regarding, the project seeks explore alternative Menstruation Education models in youth workers perspectives to catalyze and facilitate them in integrating menstruation education in the overall youth work. Thus, we seek to develop menstruation educational tools which are structured around young people’s engagement in the learning process to meet their learning expectations on menstrual health and hygiene. Project’s intellectual outputs: a handbook and guidelines on menstruation education in youth work and related pedagogical materials with be produced for young people to acquire knowledge, skills and attitudes about menstrual health, hygiene, female body, period management, relationships, sexual practices, sexuality, etc. through empowerment, capacity building and advocacy; delivered in non-formal educational setting to develop dynamic activities in such a way that knowledge, skills and attitudes are learned and perfected through practice.

Project Website

https://www.terrampacis.org/projects/concluded-projects/period-empowerment-network-155.html

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 149842 Eur

Project Coordinator

TERRAM PACIS & Country: NO

Project Partners

• EYROPAIKO INSTITOYTO TOPIKHS ANAPTYKSHS
• VOLUNTEER ACTION FOR CHANGE KENYA
• UGANDA YOUTH SKILLS TRAINING ORGANIZATION
• WYZSZA SZKOLA BIZNESU I NAUK O ZDROWIU
• ERASMUS MUNDUS STUDENTS AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
• ASOCIACION DE INNOVACION EMPRENDIMIENTO Y TECNOLOGIAS DE LA INFORMACION Y LA COMUNICACION INNETICA
• SAMAHAN NG MGA PILIPINA PARA SA REFORMA AT KAUNLARAN INC