What Governments can do to end female genital mutilation?
Governmants can:
- Engage communities
- Train Healthworkers
- Invest in prevention
- Enact anti-FGM Legislation
Governmants can:
Recommendation 2: In addition to training, health workers should have access to capacity-building resources including information, education and communication (IEC) materials and job aids, e.g. clinical guides, handbooks, algorithms, flow charts, anatomical models and other digital/print resources explaining the types of FGM, the associated complications and their management.
Strength of recommendation: Strong (very-low-certainty evidence) A key element of multisectoral efforts to promote FGM prevention is the creation and enforcement of national laws and policies to protect women and girls from all forms of violence, including FGM, by any person – including health workers. This is a vital component of FGM prevention as it helps to ensure adherence to human rights principles and establishes mechanisms of accountability for violating them. In addition to laws and policies, there is a need for professional codes of conduct that discourage health workers from performing FGM (i.e. medicalization of FGM), and also penalties for violating these codes of conduct. - Summary of the evidence- The evidence review for this recommendation considered any interventions aimed at improving health workers’ access to capacity-building resources (or a combination of resources) and encouraging their direct application at the point of care. These capacity-bui...
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