Our Advocacy
Movers in Mensturation Campaign
A Speaker's Series
About the Campaign
This campaign is dedicated to raising awareness of the menstrual health ecosystem as well as showcasing leaders, activists, advocates, and influences at the forefront of menstrual health rights. Grassroots organizations are the heart of change and this campaign gives them a platform to showcase their work and their impact on the countries.
Campaign Speakers
The campaign interviewed 5 global menstrual health leaders and activists who are breaking barriers, implementing new policies and procedures, raising funds to donate menstrual products, and using their platform as a force for good to ensure we live in a Positive Friendly world. The five speakers include Yasmina Benslimane in Morocco, Candice Chirwa a.k.a Minister of Menstruation from South Africa, Vivi Lin in Taiwan, Dr. Radha Paudel from Nepal, and Dr. Arundati Muralidharan in India.
Episodes
Campaign Team
Convening for Systems Change: Advancing Menstrual Health in Nairobi
On the side-lines of the World Health Summit Regional Meeting 2026, Menstrual Rights Global convened a high-level breakfast dialogue at the United Nations Office at Nairobi in partnership with UNICEF and Pathfinder International to explore the intersections between menstrual health, sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), social development and climate change. Bringing together actors from multilateral agencies, civil society, academia, philanthropy and community-led organisations, the convening was designed to create an honest and solutions-focused space for dialogue at a time of increasing fragmentation across the global health and development landscape.
The discussion demonstrated the power of intentional convening in advancing consensus around complex and often siloed issues. Rather than approaching menstrual health as a standalone topic, the dialogue positioned menstrual justice within wider systems, including health, education, WASH, climate resilience, humanitarian response and social protection. By bringing together actors working across different sectors and levels of influence, the convening created opportunities to identify shared priorities, surface implementation challenges and strengthen relationships between organisations that do not always work in close coordination. The conversation reinforced that sustainable progress requires more than individual programmes or campaigns. It requires trust-building, sustained partnership and spaces where diverse actors can engage openly across institutional and disciplinary boundaries.
Menstrual Rights Global continues to play a convening role within the global menstrual justice ecosystem, facilitating dialogue between policymakers, multilaterals, researchers, advocates, youth leaders and grassroots organisations to strengthen collective action and systems thinking. Through strategic partnerships with organisations including UNICEF, Pathfinder International and Amref Health Africa, MRG is helping to create spaces that move beyond rhetoric towards greater coordination, shared accountability and long-term approaches to addressing the structural barriers that continue to prevent menstrual justice globally.
Five Tips for Effective Convening
1. Start with a shared challenge: Focus on the issue people collectively want to solve, not individual organisational priorities.
2. Bring diverse voices into the room: Strong convening happens when policymakers, community leaders, researchers, youth and practitioners engage together.
3. Create space for honest dialogue: The most valuable conversations are open, practical and solutions-focused.
4. Think in systems: Complex challenges like menstrual justice and climate resilience require cross-sector collaboration, not isolated interventions.
5. Focus on relationships, not just events: Good convening continues beyond the meeting through trust-building, collaboration and ethical leadership, and sustained dialogue.
The meaningful engagement approach stops us making assumptions about what people need. Our aim is to engage various stakeholders to co-develop tools, events, and advocacy initiatives that reflect their context, culture, country, or region.