Symposium: International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital
Cutting
4th Anniversary, 6 February 2007
Theme: Broadening the Base, Renewing the Agenda
8:30 am Registration and coffee
9:00 am Greetings and Introductions
Welcome
by Kent Hill, Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Global Health,
USAID
Panel 1: Promising Practices: Evaluation Methods and Results
Moderator: Sarah Harbison, USAID
- "Methodological challenges for the evaluation of FGC programs"
P. Stanley Yoder, Senior Qualitative Research Specialist, Macro
International
- "What makes communities abandon female genital mutilation:
Experiences from Senegal and Burkina Faso"
Nafissatou Diop, Program
Associate II, Population Council/Senegal
- "The Navrongo FGC trial: Impact and lessons learned"
Reshma Naik, Principal Investigator
Coffee break
Panel 2: Change Makers
Moderator: Adisa Douglas, Public Welfare Foundation
- "A religious-oriented approach to addressing FGM/C"
Maryam Sheikh Abdi, Program Officer, Population Council/Kenya
Ibrahim Asmani, Advocate and Islamic Scholar
- "Promoting the abandonment of FGC in Benin: Strategies and results"
Claire Houngan Ayemonna, Magistrate, Benin
- "Working with the media"
Florence Machio, Journalist and Regional Coordinator, Africawoman
- "Protecting girls from FGM: Challenges and opportunities for legal
intervention in Africa"
Rachel Sandel Morse, Harvard Law School
Lunch: Music videos from Sini Sanuman/Healthy Tomorrow
Panel 3: Widening the Circle: The Next 10 Years
Moderator: Sarah Craven, UNFPA
- "Framing FGM: Health and human rights approaches"
Bettina Shell-Duncan, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Health
Services, University of Washington
- "Changing youths' attitudes toward FGM in Egypt"
Leah Freij, Senior Technical Advisor for Gender, CEDPA
- "FGC and obstetric complications: Results of the WHO study"
Hermione Lovel, Department of Health, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Summation/Wrap-up:
John Townsend,
Population Council
Informal Meet and Greet
This symposium is sponsored by the United States Agency for
International Development's Bureau for Global Health. The proceedings were
organized by the Population Reference Bureau.
