International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation 2022; February 6th.

 

 FORUM "Accelerating Investment to End Female Genital Mutilation."International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation 2022

Over the years, this partnership has seen significant achievements. Through the support of the joint programme, more than 5.5 million girls and women received prevention, protection and care services related to FGM. Some 42.5 million people made public declarations to abandon FGM. 361,808 girls were prevented from undergoing FGM. 

Join the conversation by the following the hashtags #InvestDontRest, #EndMGF.

STATEMENTS

Video message by Amb. Maurizio Massari, Permanent Representative of Italy to the United Nations in New York.

PUBLICATION

2020 Annual Report on FGM: Sustaining the Momentum - The Performance Report.

TheThe 2020 annual report of the global Joint Programme on the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation presents the progress made thus far in the implementation of the Joint Programme. The report focuses on the experiences recorded in preventing, mitigating and responding to the increased risk of girls undergoing FGM during the pandemic. It also presents the achievements of the programme in 2020, which are key in setting the baseline for 2021 – the final year of Phase III of the Joint Programme. The 2020 annual report is presented in a sequenced format featuring six sub-reports.

The performance report in particular provides an analysis of the Joint Programme’s results including factors that contribute to programme achievements as well as approaches for addressing bottlenecks in the programme.


Join the effort

The World Health Organization, UN WOMEN, UNFPA and UNICEF call upon all stakeholder, including new donors and partners, to join hands with the Joint Programme to provide additional funding and support the global movement to realizing the joint vision of eliminating FGM by 2030.

Commitments to the UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme on the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation will improve and scale up our work, which currently is supported by a range of generous donors, including the European Union (through Spotlight Inititive Africa Regional Programme) and the governments of Austria, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. .