{"id":21050,"date":"2022-08-01T12:53:26","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T10:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidos.local\/?post_type=project&p=21050"},"modified":"2023-03-07T10:13:42","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T09:13:42","slug":"gender-transformative-approaches-to-ending-female-genital-mutilation","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/aidos.it\/en\/project\/gender-transformative-approaches-to-ending-female-genital-mutilation\/","title":{"rendered":"AFRICA-EUROPE. Gender transformative approaches to ending Female Genital Mutilation"},"content":{"rendered":"

JULY-DECEMBER 2022 – HUMAN RIGHTS \/ FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION
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WHERE<\/span>
\n<\/strong>Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania, Republic of Guinea, Senegal, and other African countries supported by the UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme on Eliminating FGM. Italy and Belgium and other EU countries.<\/p>\n

PARTNERS<\/span>
\n<\/strong>The project is coordinated by AIDOS and implemented in partnership with GAMS Belgium.<\/p>\n

BACKGROUND<\/span>
\n<\/b>Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is internationally recognised as a violation of human rights, a form of gender-based violence (GBV) and a manifestation of gender inequality. As such, its elimination is included as a specific target within the Sustainable Development Goal 5 dedicated to Gender Equality. According to UNICEF data, more than 200 million<\/strong> women and girls<\/strong> today are survivors of Female Genital Mutilation. Further research by UNFPA shows that, if current trends continue in the direction they are moving in, 68 million girls<\/strong> will face Female Genital Mutilation between 2015 and 2030.<\/p>\n

As any other form of GBV, FGM is closely tied to power relations between men and women. FGM is a manifestation of gender inequality and as such it needs to be addressed. Programs that aim to inform and sensitize communities about the negative impacts of FGM, and to eliminate the practice in the long run, must incorporate gender transformative approaches (GTA)\u00a0 to inform\/sensitize or even transform men and boys on the issue of toxic masculinity, which will challenge the gendered social norms, including harmful gender stereotypes, while favoring women and girls\u2019 empowerment. Such programmes must challenge gender roles and gender power dynamics, and work to counter them both at institutional and society levels.<\/p>\n

GOAL<\/span>
\n<\/strong>The overall objective of the project is to accelerate the reduction of FGM<\/strong> by enhancing the capacities of organizations, activists and professionals in Africa and Europe to prevent and respond to the practice and to address discriminatory gender and social norms to advance gender equality and women\u2019s decision-making.<\/p>\n

\u00a0MAIN ACTIVITIES<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n