The Ghana Instruction Support (GES) has highlighted the will need to intensify education and learning “targeting girls, boy and the parents” on menstrual cleanliness.
GES designed a situation for this move as the nation commemorates Menstrual Hygiene Day on May well 28, 2020.
The working day is to “celebrate ladies and women, to focus on menstruation, and to advocate for additional favourable conditions for the quite a few gals and women in Ghana with no entry to basic info on menstrual cleanliness administration, dignified bogs, safe drinking water and harmless sanitary cleanliness products.”
The 2020 version is below the concept, “It’s Time for Action’.
In a push release signed by the Deputy Director-General Anthony Boateng, the Services emphasised the need to appear at the menstrual hygiene in the context of the ensuing Covid-19 poandemic.
It stated that the closure of universities about the have to have to include the novel coronavirus may perhaps direct to “fewer girls and boys having primary details in relation to menstrual hygiene management.”
The GES amid others things referred to as for “provision of toilet facilities which are gender helpful with shifting rooms, simple accessibility to menstrual hygiene merchandise, even all through the COVID-19 pandemic and demystification of myths and taboos related with menstruation.”
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2020 Menstrual Hygiene Day Commemoration
Currently is Menstrual Hygiene Working day (28 May). It is a working day to celebrate ladies and ladies, to talk about menstruation, and to advocate for more favourable ailments for the a lot of women of all ages and girls in Ghana with out access to primary information and facts on menstrual cleanliness administration, dignified bathrooms, harmless water and risk-free sanitary cleanliness products.
The concept for this 12 months is “It’s Time for Action’.
This year’s celebration normally takes area in the context of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic – a wellness crisis which has thrown a highlight on the importance of adequate h2o, sanitation and cleanliness.
According to the Various Indicator Cluster Survey 2017/2018, (MICS 2017/18) in Ghana, fewer than a person in two (48.5 %) of households have handwashing services with h2o and soap and a person in a few women do not have accessibility to a rest room all through menstruation. A lot of did not have obtain to sanitary products and solutions and managed their menses employing unhygienic unhygienic products like newspaper or leaves.
The economic and other social elements of COVID-19, such as opportunity reduction or reduction in family members profits, coupled with university closures and boost in expense of commodities may possibly end result in several adolescent girls and girls getting significantly less skill to afford or entry applicable sanitary elements.
In addition, the closure of universities may possibly direct to fewer ladies and boys getting essential details in relation to menstrual cleanliness administration.
There is the have to have to go on advocacy on the pursuing:
- Continual schooling focusing on girls, boy and the mother and father
- Provision of bathroom services which are gender helpful with transforming rooms
- Quick accessibility to menstrual cleanliness products and solutions, even for the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic
- Demystification of myths and taboos linked with menstruation.
2020 Menstrual Hygiene Event
This year’s Menstrual Hygiene Day is remaining commemorated via social media, radio and tv broadcasts.
Activities consist of the following:
- Webinar Seminar for the commemoration on the 28th Might, 2020 from 9:30am-11:00 am broadcast online. The 90-minute event will include a keynote tackle delivered by the Hon. Minister of Schooling. Speakers and panelists from the Ghana Health Company, Ministry of Sanitation and Drinking water Resources, Ghana Training Assistance, UNICEF, CONIWAS and other Enhancement Companions.
- Shorter movies of properly-identified personalities from all sectors – including federal government ministers, religious and standard leaders, adolescents and broadcasters – celebrating Menstrual Cleanliness Day
- Media interviews with representatives of the National Complex Committee on Menstrual Cleanliness Administration.
- Social media influencer endorsement
- Discussions on MHM on GTV Grownup schooling programme as put up MH Day activity
A post exercise will be performed by SHEP Coordinators at the Regional and District level
We are grateful to the National Complex Committee on MHM as effectively as individuals who coordinated the programme from Ministry of Training / Ghana Instruction Provider, Ministry of Gender, Youngsters and Social Safety, the Ministry of Health and fitness / Ghana Wellbeing Service, the Ministry of Sanitation and Drinking water Sources. Other associates consist of UNICEF, Greater Accra Metropolitan/Municipal Space (GAMA) Sanitation and Drinking water Task, World Bank, Environment Eyesight Ghana, WaterAid Ghana, Times for Girls, Global Communities and USAID and Coalition of NGOs in Water and Sanitation (CONIWAS).
We urge them to continue on their help.
ANTHONY BOATENG
DEPUTY DIRECTOR Basic (MS)
FOR: DIRECTOR-Normal
