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Technology - and community - empowered programming to eliminate FGM: Promising Findings from a Program in Kuria, Kenya
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Publication Author: Mahnaz M. Harrison, Sarah Frech, Maedeh Hassanzadegan, Paul Kuodi, Elizabeth J. Anderson, Heather Marlow, Chimaraoke Izugbara
Female genital mutilation (FGM), the intentional altering or injuring of the female genitals for non-medical reasons, has been performed on more than 200 million women and girls worldwide (UNICEF, 2016). In western Kenya, 30 to 69 percent of girls and women have undergone FGM (UNICEF, 2020).
Despite Kenya’s national policy and intervention leadership in East Africa to curb FGM, barriers to its elimination, such as cultural practices among parents, have not been successfully addressed for remote (“last mile”) communities.