Menstrual Health and Dignity
We promote menstrual health education and access to practical menstrual products. Our work seeks to reduce stigma, improve knowledge, support menstrual hygiene, and help women and girls manage menstruation with dignity.
Our Work
Integrated programmes connecting economic opportunities, education, menstrual dignity, youth leadership, evidence and community engagement.
Campaigns and Projects
Explore WEEA’s eight campaign pillars and proposed projects, with dedicated pages describing their purpose, intended audiences and opportunities for collaboration.
Explore Campaigns and ProjectsProgrammes and Thematic Areas
Programs That Connect Dignity, Opportunity, and Lasting Change
WEEA’s programs address the connected needs of women and girls through menstrual health, education, economic empowerment, youth engagement, advocacy, and community participation.
Women’s Economic Empowerment
We advance approaches that strengthen women’s participation in economic and community life. Our work emphasizes opportunity, capacity, inclusion, and the importance of women having greater agency over their futures.
Girls’ Education and Youth Development
We support initiatives that help girls and young people access information, build confidence, develop skills, and participate in their communities. Menstrual health education and access to menstrual products are important parts of creating supportive environments for girls.
Community Engagement
We work with communities to raise awareness, share knowledge, encourage participation, and promote locally relevant solutions. Community engagement helps ensure that programs respond to people’s experiences and priorities.
Advocacy and Research
We engage in advocacy and knowledge-sharing to increase understanding of the barriers affecting women and girls. Our work supports greater attention to menstrual health, gender equality, and access to essential products and services.
Sustainable Menstrual Products
We promote reusable menstrual products and related solutions that offer practical options for menstrual management. Education, appropriate use, care, and access are central to making these solutions useful and sustainable.
Women’s Economic Empowerment
Improving women’s access to economic opportunities, entrepreneurship, financial knowledge, skills development, mentorship, markets and business resources.
Explore This AreaEntrepreneurship and Skills Development
Connecting entrepreneurship, practical skills, financial literacy and mentorship with pathways to economic participation.
Explore This AreaGirls’ Education and Equal Opportunities
Reducing barriers to girls’ education through health information, school awareness, practical life skills and community engagement.
Explore This AreaMenstrual Health and Dignity
Addressing menstrual health as a matter of dignity, education, health information, equality and participation.
Explore This AreaYouth Leadership and Decent Work
Strengthening young people’s meaningful participation in development, economic decision-making and decent work discussions.
Explore This AreaResearch, Policy and Advocacy
Connecting community experiences, research and policy analysis to programme improvement and evidence-informed advocacy.
Explore This AreaCommunity Wellbeing and Inclusion
Connecting health information, wellbeing, inclusion and local capacity with more equitable access to opportunities.
Explore This AreaLearning and Opportunity
Knowledge, skills and confidence
Education, practical skills and access to opportunities connect WEEA’s work with women, girls and young people.
Explore Youth OpportunitiesOur Areas of Focus
- Women’s socioeconomic opportunities
- Mental health and wellbeing for children, young people and women
- Girls’ education, including high-school girls from low-income families
- Child care and development
- Youth unemployment
- Integrated functional adult literacy
- Reproductive health, family planning and HIV prevention, care and support
- Local capacity building
People and communities
- Unemployed women
- Women engaged in prostitution
- High-school and adolescent girls
- Children and young people
WEEA’s target areas include Addis Ababa, Tigray, Oromia, Amhara, southern Ethiopia and other Ethiopian regions, alongside Kenya, Tanzania, Morocco and Nigeria.
Planned work for 2019E.C / 2026-2027
Planned programme calendar
Planned · 2027Quarterly priorities
Explore the planned quarterly priorities for leadership, education, entrepreneurship, research and partnerships.
Showing all four quarters of the 2027 plan.
Quarter 1
Youth leadership training
Leadership training programs
Planned for Q1–Q4Menstrual health education
School/community education
Planned for Q1–Q4Partnerships and collaboration
Stakeholder engagement
Planned for Q1–Q4Quarter 2
Youth leadership training
Leadership training programs
Planned for Q1–Q4Menstrual health education
School/community education
Planned for Q1–Q4Women’s entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship training
Planned for Q2–Q4Research and evidence
Research studies
Planned for Q2–Q4Partnerships and collaboration
Stakeholder engagement
Planned for Q1–Q4Quarter 3
Youth leadership training
Leadership training programs
Planned for Q1–Q4Menstrual health education
School/community education
Planned for Q1–Q4Women’s entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship training
Planned for Q2–Q4Research and evidence
Research studies
Planned for Q2–Q4Partnerships and collaboration
Stakeholder engagement
Planned for Q1–Q4Quarter 4
Youth leadership training
Leadership training programs
Planned for Q1–Q4Menstrual health education
School/community education
Planned for Q1–Q4Women’s entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship training
Planned for Q2–Q4Research and evidence
Research studies
Planned for Q2–Q4Partnerships and collaboration
Stakeholder engagement
Planned for Q1–Q4Our Integrated Approach
Community programmes, policy and economic opportunity
WEEA connects grassroots implementation, policy and advocacy, and economic empowerment and sustainability.
01Women’s Economic Empowerment
Improving women’s access to economic opportunities, entrepreneurship, financial knowledge, skills development, mentorship, markets and business resources.
Programme Details02Entrepreneurship and Skills Development
Connecting entrepreneurship, practical skills, financial literacy and mentorship with pathways to economic participation.
Programme Details03Girls’ Education and Equal Opportunities
Reducing barriers to girls’ education through health information, school awareness, practical life skills and community engagement.
Programme Details04Menstrual Health and Dignity
Addressing menstrual health as a matter of dignity, education, health information, equality and participation.
Programme Details05Youth Leadership and Decent Work
Strengthening young people’s meaningful participation in development, economic decision-making and decent work discussions.
Programme Details06Research, Policy and Advocacy
Connecting community experiences, research and policy analysis to programme improvement and evidence-informed advocacy.
Programme Details07Community Wellbeing and Inclusion
Connecting health information, wellbeing, inclusion and local capacity with more equitable access to opportunities.
Programme Details