by WESNetwork | Jun 1, 2023 | Government Policies and Guidelines, Menstrual Hygiene Management, Policy and Advocacy
On May 31 2023, Wesnet and the Menstrual Hygiene Management Hub in Malawi commemorated the Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) Day which falls on 28 May every year. The event which was commemorated under the theme “Making menstruation a normal fact of life by 2030”...
by WESNetwork | Dec 15, 2022 | Government Policies and Guidelines, Menstrual Hygiene Management, News stories, Policy and Advocacy, WASH Research
Over the weekend, Wesnetwork-Water and Environmental Sanitation Network member Malawi Girl Guides Association (Magga) engaged the Parliamentary Women Caucus in Dedza district where among others they had the opportunity to hear the challenges Adolescent Girls and Young...
by WESNetwork | Mar 31, 2022 | Government Policies and Guidelines, Menstrual Hygiene Management, News stories, Policy and Advocacy
It’s official!!! #TheEndofPeriodTax! #NoToPeriodPoverty! Why taxing menstrual products as a luxury? By taxing menstrual products we were sending a message of inequality and an explicit bias because women and adolescent girls were being targeted got an...
by WESNetwork | Feb 28, 2022 | Knowledge Research, Menstrual Hygiene Management, News stories, Policy and Advocacy
The WASH sector in Malawi has for decades been characterized with several challenges. Poor funding, lack of political prioritization, luxuriously taxing WASH facilities, politicizing WASH facilities, lack of institutional arrangement thus no WASH stand-alone Ministry...
by WESNetwork | Jun 28, 2021 | Menstrual Hygiene Management
Most Malawian girls and women do not have access to sanitary products. As a result, they use locally and easily found materials within their household which has proven to be a cause for some hygiene related infections. Can we make pads available in public places? The...
