FRONTIERS Projects | Technical Assistance to Organizations Seeking to Reduce Female Genital Cutting (FGC) in Guinea

FRONTIERS PROJECT
Technical Assistance to Organizations Seeking to Reduce Female Genital Cutting (FGC) in Guinea

FRONTIERS collaborated with the Ministry of Health, the World Health Organization (WHO), and the Committee Fighting Traditional Practices that Harm Women (CPTAFE) to provide technical assistance to organizations seeking to improve strategies to encourage abandonment of FGC in Guinea. Following a two-day meeting with groups involved in FGC activities, FRONTIERS worked with WHO to develop design, monitoring, and evaluation indicators for an operations research project on the medicalization of FGC. FRONTIERS coordinated the collation of lessons learned from previous FGC research and developed a summary for use by community agencies that describes the practice of FGC in Guinea and outlines key messages supporting its abandonment. FRONTIERS also helped the NGO CPTAFE, the primary organization working to encourage the abandonment of FGC, to reorient its approach to FGC activism. The project further provided technical assistance to the Senegal-based NGO Tostan in formative research on the sociological underpinnings of FGC in Guinea. Although it is clear that FGC is highly prevalent in Guinea, the research shows that efforts to encourage its abandonment are still in the early stages.

Location

Guinea

Duration

May 2004–December 2005

Population Council researcher

Nafissatou Diop

Non-Council collaborators

Committee Fighting Traditional Practices that Harm Women (CPTAFE)

Ministry of Health, Guinea

World Health Organization (WHO)

Donor

US Agency for International Development

Publications/Resources
Council researchers' names appear in boldface type.

2006
Diop, Nafissatou. "Technical assistance to organizations in Guinea seeking to reduce female genital cutting," FRONTIERS Final Report. Senegal: Population Council. (PDF, 543 KB)