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Guinea-Bissau becomes the first country in Africa to launch the Born Perfect Women’s Caravan.
#Frontline Women Rights Organisation in Guinea Bissau became the first in Africa to launch the Born Perfect Women’s Caravan. It happened in the country’s capital, Bissau on May 10, when hundreds gathered for the launch.
Backed by the EU, the Born Perfect Caravan will spend the month of May going to village to village throughout Bissau, showing anti- FGM films and hearing from religious and political leaders that FGM and child marriage must end.
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.
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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).
