Mireille Tushiminina shares her top recommendations to commemorate International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation
We invited Mireille Tushiminina to share her top recommendations in honour of this year’s International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation, observed under the theme “Partnership with Men and Boys to Transform Social and Gender Norms to End Female Genital Mutilation.”
Mireille is the Global Coordinator of the UNFPA-UNICEF Trust Fund/joint programme to Eliminate FGM. Previously, she worked as the Executive Director of the Centre for Human Rights and Democracy in Africa where she focused extensively on monitoring and reporting on various gross human rights violations. Mireille has more than 19 years of international and national experience in human capacity building through sustainable community-based ventures, socio-economic development and strategic planning and program design in the non-profit sector. She is a Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) award recipient and was named the face of African Solidarity by the African Union.
Enjoy her recommendations.
2020 Annual Report on FGM - Gender-Equitable Masculinities in Eliminating Female Genital Mutilation
By UNFPA and UNICEF
The 2020 annual report of the global Joint Programme on the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation presents the progress made to date in the implementation of the Joint Programme. The report focuses on the experiences recorded in preventing, mitigating and responding to the increased risk of girls undergoing FGM during the pandemic. It also presents the achievements of the programme in 2020, which are key in setting the baseline for 2021 – the final year of Phase III of the Joint Programme.
How Changing Social Norms is Crucial in Achieving Gender Equality
By UNFPA
UNFPA released this compendium on social norms change to achieve gender equality, which provides a framework for programmatic approaches to norms change at scale. This report presents some of the most promising strategies for changing social norms and achieving gender equality.
2021 Annual Report of FGM Joint Programme
By UNFPA and UNICEF
The report outlines the challenges and opportunities in the efforts led by UNFPA and UNICEF to eliminate female genital mutilation (FGM), and showcases the programme’s commitment to shifting approaches, creating positive impacts, and contributing to the 2022-2025 strategic plans for both organizations.
Manual on Social Norms and Change (2022)
By UNFPA, UNICEF
This Manual on Social Norms and Change is a revision of the initial version developed and published by UNFPA and UNICEF in 2016. It aims to contribute to create conceptual clarity and present programmatic interventions needed to address and facilitate a social norms change with focus on the elimination of female genital mutilation.
Technical Brief: How Changing Social Norms is Crucial in Achieving Gender Equality
By UNFPA
This Technical Brief summarizes the previous Compendium on social norm change to achieve gender equality, which provides a framework for programmatic approaches to norm change at scale. The Technical Brief and Compendium present promising strategies, tested approaches and practical examples of social norm change. This includes a programme design framework that is relevant for different aspects of sexual and reproductive health and rights in various contexts. The publications build on previous work by UN agencies, civil society, academia and others.
International Men & Gender Equality Survey (IMAGES)
By UNFPA and Equimundo
At the 15-year anniversary of IMAGES (International Men and Gender Equality Survey), UNFPA and Equimundo published the largest ever global study on men, masculinities, and gender equality.
IMAGES focuses on crucial gender equality issues, such as gender-based violence, sexual and reproductive health and rights, reproductive labor and participation in caregiving, and fatherhood and has used this evidence to drive and inform government policy at a local and global levels. Equimundo (formerly Promundo) and ICRW developed the IMAGES surveys, which have been implemented extensively with partners, including UNFPA, to conduct in depth research, with the participation of over 67,000 men and women across 32 countries.
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