Meet Our Coalition

We are a coalition of NGOs and menstrual health experts around the world committed to advancing menstrual health.

Meet our Steering Committee

Days for Girls International is an award-winning NGO that increases access to menstrual care and education by developing global partnerships, cultivating social enterprises, mobilizing volunteers, and innovating sustainable solutions that shatter stigma and limitations for women and girls. Days for Girls envisions a world where people have knowledge, products, and supportive environments to manage their periods.

Egal means equal and we believe pads should be as common as toilet paper. Our vision is for pads on a roll to be put in every toilet stall where they are needed most to ensure privacy, accessibility, and dignity for all who menstruate.

With more than 10,500 members – including distributors, manufacturers, manufacturer representatives, wholesalers, building service contractors, in-house service providers, residential cleaners, and associated service members – ISSA is the world’s leading trade association for the cleaning industry. The association is committed to changing the way the world views cleaning by providing its members with the business tools they need to promote cleaning as an investment in human health, the environment, and an improved bottom line. ISSA launched it’s End Period Poverty Campaign in 2022, because it believes menstrual-care solutions should be as available in away-from-home bathrooms as soap, toilet paper, and paper towels.

The Pad Project was started by a youth-driven community of students and educators in Los Angeles committed to the principle that “a period should end a sentence, not a girl’s education.” What began as a documentary film project highlighting a single village has expanded to an organization with global reach. In 2019, The Pad Project’s documentary film, Period. End of Sentence., won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. Since then, they have placed 12 pad-making machines in 5 countries, supported 8 washable pad-making programs in 7 countries, and funded 2 menstrual cup programs in 2 countries. In the U.S., The Pad Project has partnered with 45+ nonprofits and schools to help provide free menstrual products to those in need.

Satellite Industries is the global leader in portable sanitation and workplace solutions. Guided by our founding mission of delivering convenience, privacy, and dignity to every person, we proudly have served customers in over 70 countries for more than 65 years. From our own warehouses and headquarters to millions of end users at events, construction sites, parks, stadiums, and disaster-relief zones worldwide, we believe menstrual equity is a fundamental part of human dignity. We’re committed to helping communities everywhere develop Period Positive Workplaces.

Meet our Menstrual Health Advisors

Renjini Devaki is a published author and researcher with a PhD in Sociology with over 20 years experience in India, Canada, and South Africa. She is currently serving as a Monitoring, Evaluation, and Research Manager at MIET AFRICA. She is a co-lead in two Menstrual Health Management task forces based in Africa. Her leadership and expertise have been instrumental in promoting menstrual health as a critical health issue, advocating for policy changes, and promoting evidence-based practices. She has led research on menstrual health, including the Menstrual Hygiene Management and Absenteeism in Schools in South Africa, and User Acceptability of Washable Pads in South African schools and led the development of guidelines for menstrual health in schools.

Neville Okwaro has served as a Menstrual Health Management (MHM) trainer for East and Southern Africa and built capacity of Government Officers from Nepal, Tanzania, Malawi, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Maldives, India, Bhutan, Pakistan, Nigeria, Mozambique and Kenya on MHM. Neville worked with the Ministry of Health WASH Hub in strengthening WASH and MHM gaps, coordinating the National WASH actors and activities throughout Kenya. He has aided the development of Kenya’s Menstrual Hygiene Management Policy and Strategy, MHM in Schools Teachers Handbook, MHM Monitoring and Evaluation Indicators. Neville is a member of the African Coalition of Menstrual Health, the Global Menstrual Health and Hygiene Coalition and the Global MHM Measures Group. He also served as a steering committee member for WaSHPals MHM at the Workplace study conducted in Kenya advising on issues of Policy.