Lessons Learned from Implementing Alternative Rites in The Fight Against FGM/C (2019)
This study is a Descriptive research regarding All FGM/C with the following characteristics:
Author(s): E Graamans,T Zolnikov,E Smet,P Nguura,L Leshore,S Have.
FGM/C Type(s): All
Health area of focus: none.
Objective: to empower the affected sub-groups within the practicing communities that wanted to resist FGM/C but did not have feasible way of doing so.
Study Population: Women,girls,boys(moran),elderly of both genders.
Findings: risks of exclussion,percieved loss of cultural identity,changing meanings ascribed cultural practices,lack of precise knowledge about subjective(sexual) experience and negative stereotyping are reasons not to adhere to anti-FGM/C programs.
Geographical coverage
Region(s):Eastern Africa
Country(ies):Kenya