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5th International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Cutting

Symposium: Lessons Learned from Over a Decade of Evaluating Approaches to Encourage Abandonment of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C)

6 February 2008
National Press Club, Holeman Lounge, 13th floor
529 14th Street NW
Washington, DC

Agenda and Presentations

8:30 am    Registration and continental breakfast

9:00 am    Introduction: "USAID’s perspectives and range of support for FGM/C
               activities, 1998–2008" (PDF)
               Scott Radloff, Director, Office of Population and Reproductive Health, USAID

9:30 am    "Evaluating programs for the abandonment of FGM/C" (PDF)
                Ian Askew, Population Council/Kenya

10:00 am  "Lessons learned from operations research on female genital mutilation" (PDF)
                Nafissatou Diop, Population Council/Senegal

10:30 am   Break

11:00 am  "Efforts against FGM in Egypt: Different approaches in one socio-cultural
                setting" (PDF)
                Ghada Barsoum, Population Council/Egypt

11:30 am  "FGM/C in Kenya: A microcosm of Africa?" (PDF)
                Maryam Sheikh Abdi, Population Council/Kenya

12:00 pm  "The INTACT network" (PDF)
               Ghada Barsoum, Population Council/Egypt

12:30 pm  Lunch

1:30 pm     Existing/planned programs

• UNICEF
  Gabriella De Vita and Francesca Moneti
• UNFPA Addis Road Map
  Aminata Traore and Sarah Craven
• World Health Organization
  Nelle Temple Brown (PDF)
• Interagency Working Group on FGM, West and Central Africa
  Nafissatou Diop, Population Council/Senegal (PDF)

3:00 pm    Break

3:30 pm   "Knowledge gaps about FGM/C that could be addressed through research"
              (PDF)
              Moderator: Ian Askew, Population Council/Kenya

• Managing those affected—medically, stigma, PTSD
• Links with health outcomes (fertility, HIV, fistula, and so forth)
• Links with sexuality
• Evaluation/operations research, program performance monitoring
• Programmatic capacity building (abandonment, management, OR, M&E)

4:30 pm     Wrap-up: "Where to go from here?"
                Sandra Jordan, USAID

This symposium was sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development's Bureau for Global Health and the Population Council's FRONTIERS Program

A CD-ROM of the Population Council's publications on FGM/C is available free upon request from publications@popcouncil.org

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See Also

• FRONTIERS Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
• FRONTIER Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting Publications/Resources
• Population Council Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
• Population Council Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting Publications/Resources

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