Monitoring & Evaluation
Here at ZanaA we take monitoring and evaluation (M&E) very seriously. Our field staff have collected performance metrics from students involved in our Empowerment Club Program from 2009 and 2010 to track improvement over time. With the help of Upande, an organization which is designing an online M&E toolkit for us, and The Girl Effect, these metrics will soon be able to be entered online or by mobile phone to an online database, available for public viewing and analysis. The implications for national scale and replication are exciting!
The girls involved in our EmpowerNet Clubs fill out weekly surveys which serve to provide information on student reactions to the ZanaA staff and program, details about challenges they face in school and at home, and their understanding of material taught to them in the clubs each week.
Mapping Distribution
In 2009 the Kenya National Sanitary Towels Campaign Coordinating Committee authorized ZanaA CEO Megan to come up with an online coordinating mechanism to ensure accountability, transparency, and equity in distribution.
Coming here soon will be this map. If you are a distributor, you should add yourself. If you are a school, we want to hear from you too. The map will be interactive so you can search by region, distributor, etc. It will be integrated with performance data collection. This means we have the potential to be the first organization globally to examine the long-term effects of sanitary pad provision on attendance, performance, and matriculation – a much-needed study!
Mapping Manufacturing
Manufacturing sanitary pads to manage menstruation is not new. It arguably started in the 1920s with Kimberly Clarke, and has spread globally.
Here, we are in the process of mapping all manufacturing around the world of sanitary pads, to see what is happening, what level of output is being achieved, and what materials are being used.
Check back soon for an interactive map and opportunities for you to add solutions that you know which we haven’t yet captured
