Female Genital Mutilation and Behaviour Change
Source
GTZDate of Publication
2011This brief two pager summarizes several SBCC approaches regarding FGM.
Listed are ideas for behavior change through:
- Dialogue: including intergeneational dialogue and the family approach
- Education of both service providers and the gneeral public
- Focusing on human rights
- Advocating with religious leaders
- Multi-media campaigns
- Convincing and retraining traditional circumcisers
- Creating alternative rituals
More Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting resources
- Behavior Change to End FGM
- Manual on Social Norms and Change
- The REPLACE Approach: Supporting Communities to End FGM
- Toolkit for Engaging Midwives in the Global Campaign to End FGM
- The Girl Generation: Do No Harm Guidance Note
- Responding to Female Genital Mutilation: A Guide for Key Professionals
- Global Strategy to Stop Health-Care Providers from Performing Female Genital Mutilation
- WHO Guidelines on the Management of Health Complications from Female Genital Mutilation
- Do Your Own Survey: How to Collect Data on FGM
- Fact Sheet on FGM
Last Updated
December 16, 2016
