FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION

Contents
About the Organisations............................................................................................................................4
Acknowledgments......................................................................................................................................5
Foreword.....................................................................................................................................................6
Poem: I Had No Voice and No Rights.......................................................................................................8
Introduction...............................................................................................................................................10
Background.......................................................................................................................................11
The Bristol Model .....................................................................................................................................12
The Bristol Community Development and Awareness Programme.........................................................13
Programme Aims...............................................................................................................................13
Programme Approach.........................................................................................................................13
Standards of Community Engagement...................................................................................................13
Project Activities.........................................................................................................................................14
Participatory Research........................................................................................................................14
Women’s Health and Leadership Training..............................................................................................16
Social and Emotional Support Services..................................................................................................16
Multi-Agency Collaboration.................................................................................................................17
Engaging Men and Religious Leaders...................................................................................................17
Summer Safeguarding Campaigns.......................................................................................................18
Project Impact............................................................................................................................................19
Shifting Community Attitudes................................................................................................................19
CHA Campaign Leads to Establishment of Specialist FGM Clinic................................................................ 19
Meet the Community Health Advocates.................................................................................................22
Lessons Learnt...........................................................................................................................................24
Reflections and Concluding Remarks.......................................................................................................26