Female genital mutilation

Everywhere it is practiced, female genital mutilation (FGM) is an expression of entrenched gender inequality . Girls subjected to FGM are subjected to a systematic form of violence. Survivors often require life-saving care – urgent treatment to staunch haemorrhage, antibiotics to quell infections, surgery to address urinary backup or emergency…, Resources, Key programme documents, 2023 Meeting Report: Annual Technical Consultation I Amman, Jordan   Review of technology-based interventions to address child marriage and female genital mutilation  (with 13 case studies) Phase IV Programme Document for the UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme on the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation Proposal for Phase III of the UNFPA-UNICEF…, Annual reports, Reimagining Resilience Eliminating Female Genital Mutilation in the Context of the Polycrisis ( 2022 annual report ) Delivering and Sustaining in the New Normal to End Female Genital Mutilation ( 2021 annual report and phase III analysis ) 2020 Global Annual Report: Eliminating Female Genital Mutilation during COVID-19 Empowering Girls and Women…, Technical notes and fact sheets, Programming guidance Developing Anti-FGM Laws Aligned with Human Rights Technical Guidance: A Comprehensive Approach to Accelerating the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation Monitoring Compendium of Indicators on Female Genital Mutilation Social and behaviour change The ACT Framework Package: Measuring Social Norms Around Female Genital…, Research and evaluations, Research Advancing Gender-Transformative Approaches in the UNFPA-UNICEF Global Programme to End Child Marriage and the UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme on the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation Advancing Gender-Transformative Approaches in the UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme for the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation: Exploring Gender, Power…, Online capacity-strengthening courses, Foundations of gender-transformative approaches (with a dedicated module on programming to eliminate FGM), Our response, UNICEF, in partnership with UNFPA , works to tackle female genital mutilation through interventions in 17 countries: Burkina Faso, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, Somalia, Uganda and Yemen. The Joint Programme, launched in 2008 and currently implementing Phase IV…

Harmful cultural practices like  Child marriage child marriage and Female genital mutilation female genital mutilation (FGM) are discriminatory practices committed regularly over such long periods of time that societies begin to consider them acceptable. Around the world, hundreds of millions of girls and boys have experienced some form of…, Resources, Technical notes and fact sheets, Digital and technology-based solutions Digital and remote approaches in eliminating harmful practices Social and behaviour change Defining social norms and related concepts Everybody Wants to Belong : A practical guide to tackling and leveraging social norms in behaviour change programming, Innovative financing, Options paper, UNICEF's response, The  Sustainable Development Goals  call for the elimination of all harmful practices to advance the rights of women and girls globally. UNICEF seeks to ensure that every child is protected from violence and exploitation, including harmful practices, in both humanitarian and development settings. To that end, UNICEF works across the globe to:…, Technology-based interventions to address child marriage and female genital mutilation, Last modified July 2023