GLOBAL DATABASE ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLSCOUNTRY-PROFILEKENYAMEASURESTRAINING OF ANTI-FGM CHAMPIONS
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KENYA | AFRICA
Training of Anti-FGM champions
Type of Measure
Prevention > Awareness-raising Campaigns
Form of Violence
Female genital mutilation
Year
2021
Brief Description

To create a critical mass of community members to be champions against FGM and become community facilitators and resource persons. Since May 2021 Board together with KSG, partnered and trained 130 Anti-FGM Champions from the FGM hot spot counties. The champions are individual who have immensely contributed to the campaign against FGM at community level. This training would enlighten the officers and resource persons tasked with the responsibility to implement the Prohibition of Female Genital Mutilation Act, 2011 at the community and organizational level with the requisite capacity to objectively campaign against the practice and henceforth transform the lives of women and girls and ultimately entire communities.

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