HOW WE ARE ERADICATING FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION
#FrontlineEndingFGM is the world's fastest and most cost-effective alliance fighting against FGM locally.
3 STEPS TO ENDING FGM
A decade in the making the #FrontlineEndingFGM – women’s rights organisations working across Africa have found the proven 3- step solution to eradicating FGM.
1
Born Perfect Academies – Bringing together survivors, activists, and influential voices from each region for 5 days of direct training on the Tree of Life, Caravans, and local media blitzes ahead of the campaign roll-out.
2
Born Perfect Caravans – We take to the road with our giant movie screen, local religious leaders, musicians, doctors and journalists in our Born Perfect Women’s Caravans.
3
We use our Born Perfect Women’s Caravan to ignite a three year intense end FGM messaging campaign on our local radio and TV.
WHAT WE DO
Drawing on a decades’ experience of thousands of frontline activists across 15 African countries, here is our evidence that it works.
WATCH OUR VIDEO
For decades, donor governments and philanthropists have been trying to fund frontline women’s organisations directly. Although research shows that they works smarter and faster to change their communities’ norms, only 2 percent of global gender funding reaches them directly.
This is why the Global Media Campaign, Wallace Global Fund and UNFPA have spent 10 years building a nimble, cheap and secure Localisation Service, delivering funds to the #FrontlineEndingFGM directly, and without interruption. So far, this mechanism has been used by the European Union, the World Bank, the US State Department, Danida, UN Women, Unicef and private foundations.”
EU Ambassador Artis Bertulis said:
“We started something today in Guinea Bissau, that I believe will see an end to FGM by 2030.”
The EU has become the first major international donor to back grassroots women directly and at scale on the #Frontline. In December, they will launch a major campaign to stop school holiday FGM in Kenya – and in Tanzania the EU is also backing the Born Perfect Women’s Caravan.
testimonials
our funders
FGM & Sustainable Development Goals
Ending FGM slashes maternal death rates, reduces stillborn deaths, reduces HIV transmission (SDG3), keeps girls in school (SDG4), empowers women (SDG5) and protects human rights (SDG16).
