Solutions Panorama

Leveraging Accountability
Advocacy to Stop Female
Genital Mutilation
Featuring:
Girl Generation
Location:
Countries Across Africa
Time Frame:
2014 - Present
DESCRIPTION
The Girl Generation is a social change communications initiative,
providing a global platform to galvanize, catalyze, and amplify the
Africa-led movement to end female genital mutilation. United by a
shared vision, this global collective seeks to inspire policy makers,
organizations, and individuals — including young people — across
the most affected countries in Africa and beyond to eliminate
female genital mutilation in one generation.
Girl Generation focuses on accountability modalities around policy
frameworks and involving young people as critical actors in the
movement to end female genital mutilation. Since ending female
genital mutilation is everyone’s business, the accountability
frameworks target all stakeholders. Reaching a critical mass can
enhance advocacy at the global, regional, and national levels and
leverage accountability through social change communication
initiatives. This puts a focus on the roles of global development
partners, national governments, implementing agencies, and
effected communities — including young people — to end female
genital mutilation in one generation.
Girl Generation aims to change the social norms that underpin
female genital mutiliation and change the way girls and women
are valued, placing the movement to end female genital mutilation
within a women’s rights and empowerment framework. While girls
and women are the key beneficiaries, Girl Generation believes that
a community free of female genital mutilation, where girls and
women can achieve their full potential, is a better community for
all.
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Photo by Newsha Tavakolian for TooYoungToWed / The Girl Generation