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2023 Annual Report of FGM Joint Programme: Addressing Global Challenges With Local Solutions to Eliminate Female Genital Mutilation
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The 2023 annual report of the UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme on the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) adopts a theme of “addressing global challenges with local solutions to eliminate FGM”. It focuses on engagement with women-led organizations as sources and agents of change in ending FGM. Women-led organizations, especially at the local and grass-roots level, have an in-depth understanding of the challenges they face including knowledge of the vital resources on how to advance their rights. They are critical to shifting policies, legislation, and institutional structures that perpetuate FGM.
Some of the global key highlights from 2023 are:
- 162,044 girls aged 0 to 14 years were protected from undergoing FGM.
- 817,529 women and girls initiated conversations on FGM elimination and/or advocated for the abandonment of the practice.
- 1.3 million people made public declarations to abandon FGM.
- 66 million individuals were reached through mass media messaging on FGM.
- 2,315 communities established surveillance systems to protect girls from being subjected to FGM.
- 8,817 grass-roots/community-based organizations integrated coalitions and networks of youth, feminists, and women’s entrepreneurs.
- 111,781 community and front-line workers from 241 implementing partners engaged in FGM-related interventions.
- 903,734 girls and women received FGM prevention and protection services.
- 2,842 health service delivery points with at least one health-care staff member were trained on FGM prevention, protection, and care services.
