Menstrual hygiene management (MHM) has become a globally recognized public health topic. Menstrual health is a matter of human rights, a natural process and a matter that concerns the dignity and well-being of all women and girls.
Promoting MHM is not only a sanitation matter, but also an important step towards safeguarding girls’ and women’s dignity, bodily integrity and overall life opportunities. In Lebanon skyrocketing poverty rates, civil unrest and the Covid-19 pandemic have compounded needs among Lebanese and non-Lebanese communities, rapidly increasing the level of vulnerability especially for women and girls.
UNFPA Lebanon intends to map existing interventions aimed at fighting period poverty and collect information on organizations, institutions, informal groups that are working on MHM to later propose a way to coordinate and streamline advocacy activities.
The consultant will work reach out to all concerned organizations share a mapping tool (already developed by UNFPA Lebanon) and will follow up with the targeted organizations to receive answers and inputs.
The consultant will then analyse the results and develop a report with key findings for the mapping that will be used to inform the development of an integrated and coordinated approach to end period poverty in Lebanon in the next years.
Individual consultant who meets the required qualifications set forth in the TORs may apply on line by sending a cover letter expressing interest, curriculum vitae All documents must be sent to the following email: bids_lbn@unfpa.org by no later than December 02 2021 COB
