FGM/C should be addressed as a component in all anti-poverty development programmes and projects carried out in the areas where it is practised. It should be dealt with not as a specific issue but integrated in the activities dealing with gender issues, women’s and girls’ rights, education, women’s participation in society and the labour force, income generation, reproductive and sexual health, safe motherhood, children’s health, HIV/AIDS prevention, etc.
AIDOS, in collaboration with the Centre for Reproductive Rights of New York, has developed this prototype modular training manual to be used by skilled trainers for training of government officials and directors and programme officers of NGOs, in order to make them understand correctly the facts about the practice and be knowledgeable about the most innovative and successful interventions. In this way they will be able, with the technical assistance of local specialised NGOs and institutions, to design programmes/projects which also address FGM/C, thus giving a strong contribution in reaching the necessary critical mass for its abandonment.
AIDOS in collaboration with AIDOS in collaborazione con The Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR)
AIDOS, Roma, 2005, 327 p.
This publication has been financed by the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (The World Bank).