In this episode, Gerda Binder from UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office and Odontuya Altansukh from UNICEF Mongolia talk about an exciting innovation that UNICEF has led: the Oky period tracker app for adolescent girls. To break the taboo of menstruation and to empower girls to manage their periods with confidence and normalcy, UNICEF has developed a period tracker app called Oky. Oky is a mobile phone period tracker app co-created for and by girls in low- and middle-income countries. It was piloted in Indonesia and Mongolia. This fascinating innovation has been girl-driven, developed for girls and by girls.

Related resources:

• Oky website – you can also download Oky from here to your Android phone
• Oky video clip – a 1-minute introduction
• Oky blog – how Oky was co-created with girls
• Oky presentation – at the 8th Virtual MHM Conference in May 2020
• Oky brochure