Sadia Hussein

Join Amref Health Africa, The Girl Generation and its partners, Population Council, Power to Youth, Y-ACT and Youth Power Hub for an interactive session on shifting approaches, creating positive impacts and contributing to putting an end to the Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) including FGM/C. The session will present evidence and explore what we mean by ‘girl-centered programming’ and how it works, and why this is a key approach to end FGM/C. Practical examples and lessons will be shared on why and how special attention is given to protect and support survivors and front-line activists.

Organizer: Amref Health Africa

Made up of over 1000 women’s organisations and mostly female activists across Africa.

#FrontlineEndingFGM is a movement ending FGM faster and cheaper than any other.
Yet only two per cent of donor funding reaches them directly. Why?

Come and meet this powerful force of local campaigners, many of them survivors, who are taking back control of ending FGM from the international private contractors – or what the Economist calls: “beltway bandits”

#FrontlineEndingFGM will also unveil the techniques and tools they are already using in 14 countries across Africa to end FGM – from the smallest local radio station to the Frontline Feminist Digital Directory that has taken ten years to build.

Backed for nearly ten years now by the United National Population Fund, UNFPA, the Wallace Global Fund and the Global Media Campaign to End FGM .

The #FrontlineEndingFGM leadership in this session will show how funding, local know-how, and survivor passion will end FGM by 2030.

Session format: Whole System in a Room

Organized by UNFPA, Wallace Global Fund, iREP, Brighter Society Initiative, Global Media Campaign, FrontlineEndingFGM