Episode 050: Jeanne Charbit on Scaling Up Access to Menstrual Health in the Global South

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Jeanne Charbit is a Project Manager at Hystra Consulting which she joined in 2019. In her first years, Jeanne mainly worked in the nutrition sector, notably on a multi-year partnership between an FMCG and a donor in Nigeria, and on MERIEM project, for which she spent a year in Burkina Faso, working with local companies to develop fortified food products for children and women.

More recently she has been working on menstrual health issues and is the author of Hystra’s report “Scaling up access to menstrual health in the Global South: Improving product quality and access to reusable options”

Links:

https://www.hystra.com/our-insights/a2mh

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeanne-charbit/


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