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You are welcome to this virtual training course on Female Genital Mutilation.

FGM ‘is performed in line with tradition and social norms to ensure that girls are socially accepted and marriageable, and to uphold their status and honour and that of the entire family’ (UNICEF, ‘Nigeria Country Profile’, February 2019).

FGM is a Violation of the human rights of girls and women.’ More than 200 million girls and women alive today have been cut.

Female Genital Mutilation has no health benefits for girls and women

You will learn;

1. Culture/tradition and its relationship with FGM
2. Overview of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)
3. Efforts to end FGM in Nigeria
4. FGM and Religion
5. Changing Social Norm and ending FGM in Nigeria

Modules

MODULE 1 - Culture and Tradition

Lessons

• What is Culture?
• Culture is dynamic
• Factors Reinforcing Harmful Traditional Practices
• Plenary game: Identifying beneficial and harmful practices

MODULE 2 - Overview of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)

Lessons

• What is Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)
• Structure and functions of the normal female external genitalia
• What is the difference between Male Circumcision and Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)”?
• Types of Female Genital Mutilation
• Who performs FGM?
• Beliefs about FGM
• Why do communities practice FGM?
• Who is at Risk of FGM?
• Complications Following FGM – Difficult Childbirth
• Complications Following FGM
• Key stakeholders on FGM in the community
• Prevalence of FGM in Nigeria
• QUESTION: Why do people engage in behaviours that are harmful to children?

MODULE 3 - FGM as a Social Norms

Lessons

• FGM as a Social Norms
• Social Norms
• Primary reasons for individuals to adhere to a social, moral and legal norm
• FGM abandonment phases

MODULE 4 - FGM and Religion

Lessons

• FGM and Religion
• So why and how FGM is associated with these religions?
• FGM and Religion: Request to Religious Leaders
• Conclusion

MODULE 5 - FGM and the Law

Lessons

• FGM and human rights
• OVERVIEW OF EBONYI STATE VIOLENCE AGAINST PERSONS (PROHIBITION) LAW, 2018
• OVERVIEW OF THE FEMALE CIRCUMCISION (PROHIBITION) LAW (EKITI STATE) 2002
• OVERVIEW OF IMO STATE FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION (PROHIBITION) LAW, 2017
• OVERVIEW OF OSUN STATE FEMALE CIRCUMCISION AND GENITAL MUTILATION (PROHIBITATION) LAW 2004
• OVERVIEW OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN LAW 2016 (OYO STATE)