This project seeks to enhance participation, retention and performance of girls in school through provision of sanitary towels. The campaign commenced in 2005 as a result of the Research carried out by GCN and its partners, “The Status of Gender Equity and Equality in Free Primary Education in Kenya”, and has since evolved from direct community support level to policy level.

On direct support, GCN has reached out to a total of 13,953 girls in 111 schools in the country with sanitary towels this reporting period. At the policy level GCN has continued to engage the National Sanitary Towels Steering Committee in ensuring standardized procedures of distributing sanitary towels in school, are harmonized and a database developed.

To this end, the Committee with the stewardship of the Ministry of Education has drafted National Guidelines on the Distribution of Sanitary Towels in Schools and developed a database that has a list of schools from needy and marginalized areas with the total number of menstruating girls.