Webinars
DfG organizes and participates in webinars and online events all year long. Check out past webinar recordings, reports, and findings below.
May 3, 2023
Online Webinar: Investing in Menstrual Health Makes Good Business Sense. Period.
This webinar hosted by Days for Girls, PSI-Europe, and Period Positive Workplace shares how to promote employee wellbeing and menstrual equity in the workplace.
In this webinar, attendees learned how to promote employee wellbeing and menstrual equity in their workplaces. Attendees were equipped with best practices for normalizing menstruation in the workplace, learned why menstruation-focused research matters and how menstrual health (MH) impacts people in the workplace. MH experts from Kenya, India, Europe, and the United States joined to discuss how to create period-positive workplaces and how the private sector can play an integral role in establishing menstrual equity.
The webinar will be led by a panel of outstanding speakers, including:
- Dr. Ekua Yankah, Brands on a Mission
- Dr. Lauren Houghton, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
- IPooja Singh, PSI India Private Limited
- Neville Okwaro, Ministry of Health WASH Hub-Kenya
- Dr. Deborah Maufi, PSI Europe (Facilitator)
Watch the webinar recording and read the webinar report.
Feel free to share these resources with colleagues and networks interested in promoting menstrual health in the workplace. Also be sure to check out the Period Positive Workplace Initiative to learn how to create more inclusive and gender equitable workplaces.
October 25, 2022
Advancing Menstrual Health, Education and Economic Progress: A Comparative Study
This webinar shares learnings from a new menstrual health (MH) study that offers transferable recommendations to help stakeholders advocate for menstrual reforms. This study reviews the MH landscapes, including national and local laws, policies, and programs that address menstrual and reproductive curricula, in 12 countries (including high income and low to mid income countries). MH experts from India, Kenya and the United States joined the discussion to share successes, challenges and gaps associated with advancing menstrual health education.
Hosted by Days for Girls, DLA Piper, New Perimeter, African Coalition for Menstrual Health, and UNFPA ESARO in partnership with the Global Menstrual Collective and the Toilet Board Coalition.
February 23 / March 3, 2022
Understanding the
Menstrual Health Landscape in East Africa:
Learnings from Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda
This two-part discussion series seeks to identify and better understand successes, challenges and gaps associated with MH laws and policies in five East African countries. Learnings from these discussions will inform and improve government and non-governmental stakeholder efforts to advance menstrual equity in their countries. Hosted by Days for Girls and Irise Institute East Africa.
Watch Session 1: Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda
Watch Session 2: Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda
February 3, 2022
Collective Action to
End Period Taxes in Ghana
Days for Girls Ghana and partners share lessons learned and insights from their campaigns to abolish taxes on period products – and develop a collective plan for future action. Hosted by WASH United in association with Days for Girls Ghana and Ghana Girl Guides.
May 26, 2021
Periods In and After the Pandemic: Refugee Spotlight
Practitioners working with refugee communities in four countries around the globe explore how strategies for meeting the MH needs of refugees have shifted or “built back better” in the face of COVID-19 – including key MH challenges in humanitarian settings, strategies with promise, and lessons learned. Hosted by Days for Girls with honorary co-hosts WASH United, MH Hub, and IMHER.
February 25, 2021
Advancing Menstrual Equity at the Systems Level Through Policy Shifts and Standards
Policy experts and advocates in East and Southern Africa open the conversation around regional challenges and successes in advancing policies, regulations, and programs that support women and girls to manage menstruation with health, safety, and dignity. Hosted by Days for Girls, UNFPA ESARO, and the Africa Coalition for Menstrual Health Management.
October 6, 2020
Promoting Women’s Empowerment and Dignity through Choice of Menstrual Products: A Closer Look at Washable Menstrual Pads
In this virtual panel, experts and advocates in Southern Africa explore why managing menstruation with health, safety, and dignity is a matter of human rights – and why product choice is an important part of bringing those rights into reality. Hosted by Days for Girls, UNFPA, MIET Africa, and the South Africa Department of Women, Youth, and People with Disabilities.
May 27, 2020
Menstrual Health Responses to COVID-19 in Africa: What have we learnt?
This webinar and accompanying report bring together a range of perspectives to share lessons learned from policy and program responses to support menstrual health during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa. Hosted by Days for Girls, MIET Africa, and UNFPA.