FINAL REPORT

A study on Menstrual Hygiene Management in Mongolia:
Understanding practices and impacts on adolescent schoolgirls’ education and health
RECOMMENDATIONS
1. RECOMMENDATIONS FROM PARTICIPANTS 17
WASH facilities:
• There is a pressing need to install as many indoor toilets as possible on each floor of a school
or dormitory building. They should have locks, good lighting, mirrors, hand dryers, soap, toilet
paper, and a waste disposal bin. In addition, it would be good to set up a drawer in the toilets
containing sanitary pads.
• Handwashing facilities should be close to the toilet so children can wash their hands immediately
after using it.
• A separate space or room in the school compound for emergency use and equipped with a
mirror, chair, shelves and skirts would enable girls to change or wash dirty clothes, and would
really help relieve girls of some of the stress of menstruation.
• Toilets should be clean and well-maintained, and renovated when necessary.
Children’s participation:
• The school administration should encourage the participation of schoolgirls and boys in
planning, implementing and monitoring school WASH activities through organizing school
campaigns or regular child-led activities at school.
Knowledge and information:
• Teachers’ awareness and understanding of the challenges girls face should be increased,
especially that of male teachers, by providing them with special training.
• Male teachers could play an important role by becoming role models for boys, learning and
sharing information with them and talking to them about menstruation related-issues. This
would help boys understand and stop bullying girls.
• Schools could plan and carry out awareness-raising campaigns for teachers, parents, boys and
girls on managing menstruation.
• A crucial step forward would be to develop communications on positive MHM experiences
and MHM support for girls, such as posters, newsletters, online training or video clips, and
to disseminate them to community members, parents, school doctors and education sector
workers.
• As children in all rural schools have access to and use the internet widely, MHM-related
information could be developed and disseminated through this channel.
17 See Annex 6.
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