Gender Issues and New Governance: Managing Menstrual Health and Hygiene with Emerging Multimedia Options for a Progressive Economy

Abstract

A nation-building process needs to be comprehensive and progressive with strong backward and forward linkages. Hence, insight into the evolution and foresight driven endeavors to change, grow and develop further become the cornerstone for sustainable development. Women-centric issues, especially those related to health, hygiene and sanitation will play a cataclysmic role in this broad context. Here the design and implementation of an effective outreach communication for social mobilization based on substantial ‘reversal of learning’ is expected to lead toward more responsive, potent and sustainable governance. We are witnessing a progressive global interest in the domain and much of so in India. What is still missing is an overarching, orchestrated mechanism, framework and governance which will curate novel initiatives and ideas, filter redundancy and repetition and harness emerging multimedia options by tapping the state-of-the- art cognitive and immersive technologies to loop the population into a dialogic communication for inclusive growth. This innovative, customized, mediate communication paradigm will disseminate knowledge to spread awareness for better menstrual management practices across the nation to promote a healthy and efficient workforce to support a healthy economy.