Funded by: Comic relief
Supported by: Action aid
Duration: 4 years project
Outcomes:
- Target communities commit to abandon all forms of FGM/C
- Women and youth are empowered to reject FGM/C
- Religious leaders publicly denounce all types of FGM/C
- Policies and laws promoting zero tolerance against FGM/C progress through the legislative process
- Partners and Somaliland CSOs have greater capacity to drive forward nationally-led anti-FGM movement
Activity:
- Holding Community Conversation meetings
- Sensitizing traditional leaders and community elders
- Training media representatives on FGM/C
- Establishing and supporting Youth Forums
- Training teachers to establish and support Youth Forum
- Capacity building Women’s Coalitions
- Attach women’s rights legal expert to Parliament
- conduct exposure visit for Social Welfare Committee
- Hold Inter ministry dialogue
- Support MoLSA to disseminate national FGM/C policy or anti-medicalisation code of conduct
- National conference on FGM/C
- Training and support members of Network Against FGM/C in Somaliland (NAFIS) on lobbying and advocacy and to raise awareness .
- Forum with CSO organization capacity building
- Strength CSO organization and building capacity
