An assessment of the alternative rites approach for encouraging abandonment of female genital mutilation in Kenya (2001)
This study is a Correlation research regarding I,II FGM/C with the following characteristics:
Author(s): Chege Jane Njeri,Ian Askew,Jennifer Liku
FGM/C Type(s): I,II
Health area of focus: None.
Objective: To address the factors that influence some families and individuals to adopt the alternative rite while others,exposed to the same messages discouraging FGM,decide not to so
Study Population: Parents,Girls,Boys
Findings: The study found out that those families choosing for their daughters to participate in the Alternative Rite were somewhat different than those not choosing to do so,in that they were slightly more likely to have ever attended school,more likely not to be members of the Catholic or Pentecostal churches,slightly less likely to be labourers or farm workers,more likely to be of higher socio-economic status,slightly more likely to have females with more positive gender attitudes,and more likely to already not be cutting their daughters and to express regret for those already cut
Geographical coverage
Region(s):Eastern Africa
Country(ies):Kenya