DATE: FRIDAY 2nd SEPTEMBER 2022

FROM 09:00 UGANDA TIME (15:00 JAPAN TIME/JST)

Venue: KOLPING HOTEL, BOMBO ROAD, KAMPALA UGANDA and ZOOM

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Organized by GRIPS research funded project titled ‘Deversifying Menstrual Hygiene Management Education in Uganda’s Schooling System: Familial-School Gender Space Dynamics and Related Policy Considerations’ (2021.04〜2023.03), Principle Investigator, Ian Karusigarira

In cooperated with the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)(Kakenhi) 「現代東部アフリカ社会をゆるがすセクシュアリティ・結婚の変容とシングル化」Principle Investigator, Wakana Shiino,(2022.04〜2026.03) , and

School of Social Sciences, Makerere University

THEME: DIVERSIFYING MENSTRUAL HYGIENE MANAGEMENT EDUCATION IN UGANDA   Organizer: Ian Karusigarira (GRIPS)

Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) as an inclusive education agenda could improve the life chances of girls and tap into the potential of co-production of knowledge and resources for menstrual health in Uganda and the world over. Male involvement can be a pillar for girls’ support during very stressful and health-threatening natural periods of a girl child and woman. However, dewomanising MHM education has been unprecedently given little attention despite its role in spurring a conducive environment for females during their “bloody days of the month”. Access to menstrual materials, clean water, washrooms, and disposal of menstrual waste requires an inclusive gender approach, especially in societies where access to resources and services is still male-dominated. This workshop seeks to pinpoint the exclusion of males from MHM-related issues. The workshop not only discusses the accepted males’ perception of menstruation as associated with dirtiness, impurity, and disgust but also the female’s perceptions of males as sexual predators presented as risk factors for a girl-child’s wellbeing. The understanding of the gender space constructed by cultural and social dynamics will help in the educational policy scrutiny of sexuality and MHM complexities in a changing global society. Interest in educational reforms to adopt new sources of knowledge on menstrual hygiene and pedagogical realignment are core to this workshop. Ultimately, this workshop envisages a constructive dialogue with National Curriculum Development Center, the Ministry of Education and Sports, Ministry of Gender, Labour & Social Development, and Ministry of Health among other stake holders on steps to be taken to include MHM in the health science for upper primary and secondary schools in Uganda. 

WORKSHOP PROGRAMME   

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Time (24 hr)

Itinerary

Responsibility/Chair

08:00-10:30 EAT

SESSION ONE: ARRIVALS, INTRODUCTIONS & REFLECTIONS ON MHM IN UGANDA

Dr. Chris Opesen

8:00~09:00 (EAT)

Arrivals for face-to-face participants and zoom waiting room for online attendees.

Ms. Caroline Komukama

09:00~09:05 (EAT)

Welcome remarks

Dr. Ian Karusigarira

09:05~09:15(EAT)

Self-Introductions

All

09:15~09:25(EAT)

Overviews and Reflections on Menstrual Hygiene Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices in Uganda

 

Ms. Rosette Nanyanzi

09:25~09:35(EAT)

Dr. Cleophus Mugenyi

09:35~09:45(EAT

Ms. Catharine M. Mugenyi

09:45~09:55(EAT

Ms. Sheila Ariiho

09:55~10:05(EAT

Ms. Lorna Kigozi

10:05~10:15(EAT)

Dr. Jesca Nsungwa Sabiiti

10:15~10:30(EAT)

Ms. Annette Nanfuka Sekaye

10:30~11:00(EAT)

Break Tea

Hotel

11:00~13:00(EAT)

SESSION TWO: KEY NOTE ADDRESS AND MHM FIELD EXPERIENCES IN UGANDA

CHAIR. Dr. Wakana Shiino

11:00~11:40(EAT)

Key note Address

 Hon. Margret Muhanga

11:40~12:00(EAT)

Conducting Fieldwork on MHM: Female Researcher’s Experience

Ms. Carol Komukama

12:00~12:20(EAT)

Conducting Fieldwork on MHM: Male Researcher’s Experience

Mr. Paul Makoboza

12:20~12:40(EAT)

MHM Education in a Ugandan School: A Rural School Teacher’s Perspective

Ms. Beatrice Kyogabirwe

12:40~13:00(EAT)

MHM Education in a Ugandan School: An Urban School Teacher’s Perspective

Ms. Mariam Nagawooya

13:00~14:00(EAT)

Lunch

Hotel

14:00~17:00(EAT)

SESSION THREE: MHM GLOBAL & UGANDA CONTEXT PANEL PRESENTATIONS

CHAIR. Dr. Soichiro Shiraishi

 

14:00-14:30(EAT)

 

Panelist 1: The Global MHM education discourse

Dr. Elli Sugita

14:30~15:00(EAT)

Panelist 2: MHM Familial-School Gender Space Dynamics and Related Policy Considerations

Dr. Ian Karusigarira

15:00~15:30(EAT)

 

Panelist 3: Distorted Sexual Knowledge－A case of Kenyan Primary School Students from MHM Survey

Dr. Wakana Shiino

 

15:30~16:00(EAT)

Panelist 4: The Politics of Gender Roles: Envisioning School-Going Males in MHM

Dr. Chris Opesen

 

16:00~16:30(EAT)

Open Discussion and Policy Recommendations

All

16:30~17:00(EAT)

Wrap-up

Rapporteur

Workshop Attendance: Hybrid (face-to-face and online)

a) Face-to-face Participants

・Hon. Margret Muhanga, Minister of State for Health (Primary Healthcare)

・Dr. Elli Sugita, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University, JAPAN

・Dr. Soichiro, SHIRAISHI, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hirosaki University, JAPAN

・Dr. Ian, KARUSIGARIRA, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), JAPAN

・Dr. Chris, OPESEN, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, College of Social Sciences, Makerere University, UGANDA

・Dr. Mugenyi Cleophus, Commissioner Basic Education, Ministry of Education and Sports, UGANDA

・Ms. Nanyanzi Rosette, Gender Technical advisor, Ministry of Education and Sports, UGANDA

・Ms. Catharine Musiime Mugenyi, Principal Inspector Education Standards, Ministry of Education & Sports, UGANDA

・Dr. Jesca Nsungwa Sabiiti, Commissioner, Reproductive and Child Health, Department of Reproductive and Child Health, Ministry of Health, UGANDA

・Ms. Sheila Ariiho, Senior Women in Development Office, Ministry of Gender Labour & Social Development, UGANDA

・Ms. Lorna Kigozi, Information and Data Officer, Ministry of Gender Labour & Social Development, UGANDA

・Ms. Annette Nanfuka Sekaye, Curriculum Development Officer, In Charge of Religious Education and Sexuality, National Curriculum Development Center, UGANDA

・Ms. Beatrice Kyogabirwe, Participant in the MHM Research Process and Teacher at St. Paul Secondary School, Mbarara City, UGANDA

・Ms. Mariam Nagawooya (Kabojja), Primary Teacher at Kabojja Primary School, Kampala, UGANDA

b) Online participants

・Dr. Wakana, SHIINO, Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), Tokyo University for Foreign Studies, JAPAN

Other online attendees will be determined later on.