YouthLead Ambassador Event: Pathways to Fight Against Menstrual Poverty

About the Event

Menstrual poverty is a complex and multifaceted issue that requires urgent attention and action from governments, organizations, and individuals worldwide. Addressing menstrual poverty requires a comprehensive approach that tackles the various challenges faced by women and girls, including access to menstrual hygiene products, education and awareness, sanitation facilities, healthcare services, and policies and programs.

Attendees of this webinar will learn pathways to address these challenges and how to support menstrual health and the wellbeing of women and girls worldwide. There will also be robust conversation around public sanitation policies, using the community act to counteract menstrual poverty, and organizing grassroots efforts to better access income and menstrual hygiene products.

About the presenter, Patricia Zanella

Patricia Zanella is a specialist in Gender Equality and SGDs with a master's in international law, cofounder of EcoCiclo and responsible for the marketing and partnerships to fight against menstrual poverty.

About the YouthLead

Launched in 2018 under the USAID-funded project YouthPower Learning and currently hosted by YouthPower2: Learning and Evaluation (YP2LE), YouthLead.org is designed for young changemakers making a positive impact in their community through service, activism, advocacy, education, and entrepreneurship. Our network members are focused on finding solutions by connecting people, ideas, and resources to tackle critical issues affecting young people at home and around the world. We invite you to join YouthLead.org to connect with like-minded young people and mentors. www.youthlead.org

About the YouthPower2: Learning and Evaluation

YP2LE brings the Youth in Development Policy to life by enabling investments in PYD research and evaluation within and across multiple sectors, including health, education, agriculture/food security, economic opportunity, peace and security, democracy, and human rights and governance. YP2LE activities are designed to examine the impact of cross-sectoral youth programming, in collaboration with USAID, YouthPower implementing partners, PYD researchers, youth-led and youth-serving organizations, individual young change-makers, and other relevant stakeholders. The goal of these activities is to give practitioners the information, tools, and resources they need to develop high-quality, impactful, and sustainable youth programs, allowing empowered youth, working with supportive adults, to create sustainable change in individuals and systems through a four-pronged approach. www.youthpower.org