Mapping the complexities and highlighting the dangers: The global drive to end FGM in the UK and Sudan (2017)
This study is a Systematic Review regarding All FGM/C with the following characteristics:
Author(s): Bedri,N.,& Bradley,T.
FGM/C Type(s): All
Health area of focus: None.
Objective: To map out the UK Department for International Development’s (DfID) global push to end the practice of Female genital Mutilation/Cutting (FgM/C),and how the various components aim to link together filling evidence gaps and seeking to identify what works to finally end this brutal practice
Study Population: Relied on articles
Findings: Discourse around FGM that shape policies and interventions are constantly colliding and being reshaped. There is a real danger that, unless coherence across of stands can me maintained,the FGM programme will become disconnected from the very individuals whose mindsets need to be shifted but also from those who represent the powerful vehicles for change needed.
Geographical coverage
Region(s):Northern Europe,Northern Africa
Country(ies):United Kingdom,Sudan