Female Genital Mutilation Documents at the Population Reference Bureau Website
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[French Versions follow the English versions. BP Mod]
Information on Female Genital Cutting: What Is Out There? What Is
Needed?
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(July 2004) In response to an expressed need by the Female Genital
Cutting (FGC) Interagency Working Group of USAID, PRB worked with four
other collaborating agencies in 2003 and 2004 to answer the question:
what information exists on female genital cutting and what information
gaps are perceived by individuals and groups that work to eradicate
this practice?
Information was gathered via in-country questionnaires administered in
eight African countries (Burkina Faso, Egypt, Ethiopia, Guinea, Kenya,
Mali, Senegal, and Uganda) where FGC is practiced and through the
innovative Internet survey tool, Survey Monkey. The five groups that
collaborated to evaluate the information (PRB, FHI PATH, Population
Council, and the Manoff Group) also conducted an informal review of 29
websites commonly known to carry information on FGC.
The picture that has emerged—of particular gaps in information on best
practices, success stories, and evaluated operations research--will
prove useful to decision makers and program managers everywhere as they
try to get the best information into the right hands.
Abandoning Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: Information From Around
the World
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This CD-ROM, in English and French, is a collection of data and
research on female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) from a wide
variety of sources. Funded by USAID, this resource is a direct response
to the findings of a 2004 survey, undertaken by the Population
Reference Bureau with four collaborating partners, in which respondents
said that serious information gaps on FGM/C exist. The CD-ROM fills
some of these information gaps, particularly where the Internet is an
expensive and unreliable method of research, by including material on
various approaches used by organizations working toward abandonment of
FGM/C, as well as on statistics, training efforts, and policy aspects.
Copies of the CD-ROM is available free from PRB. You can contact them
by e-mail at:
mailto:prborders@prb.org
by telephone at +1-202-483-1100;
or fax at +1-202-328-3937.
(August 2005).