“As cutting is a social norm, it ends with the entire community declaring that they will end it,” – this is the main motivation why we are doing capacity building of youth organization of this topic of female genital mutilation. More than 140 million girls worldwide are subjected to FGM, which involves the partial or total removal of external female genitalia. Although many think that this is a practice localised to areas of Africa, it’s actually performed in countries across the Middle East, and Asia, as well as parts of Europe and America. The type of cutting varies in different communities. It ranges from cliterodectomy (removal of the clitoris) to infibulation – which can include complete removal of a girls’ external genitals and sewing together to seal the wound that remains, with a small hole left for menstruation and urination. This obviously leads to lifelong consequences for the girl. One of the most immediate risks of this more severe form of cutting, also known as Type III, is death.“Standing up 2 FGM” is an inclusive and participatory project that aims in strengthening the capacities of Tunisian youth workers and NGOs in work with FGM. For reaching the foreseen project goals we have proposed methodology for execution of all planned activities. The activities planned are planned to include non-formal leading methodology, learning by doing, job shadowing’s, creation of workshop, training of training and coordination meetings. The project will build strong relationship between organizations in Europe and Tunisia. It will create a network of organizations from Europe and Arabic countries in area of fighting FGM.Our project will work on concrete development objectives for Tunisian organizations:- Capacities in work with FGM- Work with cultural activities in reaching learger audience and local communities- Work with ICT and social medias- Development of modular trainings and materials- Sharing skills and knowledge on practical work in Germany on support of woman right’s - Development of guide, videos, data base of trainers, training modules and web page- Create a strong centre for work with FGM in Arabic countries - Training and educating youth leaders/workers that will be skilled to carry out work with FGM - Improving youth support systems which will promote youth participation, especially in international context and in work with FGMOur project will have a long lasting impact and sustainability. The main reason for this are:Created materials: training modules; guide; web page; you tube videos; pull of trainers; Developed human resources of organizations: training of trainers; job shadowing and training of youth workers on different aspects of youth work; and Networking of organizations, development of strong networking of organizations that will continue to work on this topic.
“As cutting is a social norm, it ends with the entire community declaring that they will end it,” – this was the main motivation why we are doing capacity building of youth organization. The problem of FGM is very relevant worldwide as more then 140 million girls worldwide are subjected to FGM, which involves the partial or total removal of external female genitalia. Although many think that this is a practice localised to areas of Africa, it’s actually performed in countries across the Middle East, and Asia, as well as parts of Europe and America. The type of cutting varies in different communities. It ranges from cliterodectomy (removal of the clitoris) to infibulation – which can include complete removal of a girls’ external genitals and sewing together to seal the wound that remains, with a small hole left for menstruation and urination. This obviously leads to lifelong consequences for the girl. One of the most immediate risks of this more severe form of cutting, also known as Type III, is death.European countries such as Denmark, Sweden and the United Kingdom have also passed laws outlawing the procedure. When we are talking about EU and FGM we have to mention that one of the bases for asylum seekers in Europe is Female Genital Mutilation and approximately 20 000 woman and girls seeks asylum in EU. The project worked on concrete development objectives:-Capacities in work with FGM-Work with cultural activities in reaching learger audience and local communities-Work with ICT and social medias-Development of modular trainings and materials-Sharing skills and knowledge on practical work in Germany on support of woman right’s -Development of guide, videos, data base of trainers, training modules and web page-Create a strong centre for work with FGM in Arabic countries -Training and educating youth leaders/workers that will be skilled to carry out work with FGM -Improving youth support systems which will promote youth participation, especially in international context and in work with FGM In our project we strongly believe that in order to stop the cutting, except the laws, we need an entire community to declare the end of it. The project is setting up a constructive approaches to development of different approaches to organizations in those countries in order to raise their capacities in work with FGM. The project was beneficial not only for Tunisian organizations but also for other organizations in the partnership and many more that we contacted and have been part of the dissemination process. From this project we have created a FB like page Standing up 2 FGM | Facebook , Instagram page @standing_up_2fgm , Guide for FGM on English and Arabic and many more smaller materials that are free materials for all interested organizations. With the activities concluded, we have a strong impact on individuals in raising their knowledge and skills on:-Institutions and organizations working on woman rights -Networking with organizations -Best practices in work The proposed activities contributed to the execution of the project objectives, even it was done in one of the hardest periods of our history, during a COVID pandemics. Our partnership was develop on the fundaments of good cooperation and understanding of partners and experience of partners on the topic of migration and inclusion. We believe that each partner contributed the most to this partnership with the skills and competences. On this project we had partners from different programme and partner countries as Tunisia, Jordan, Egypt, Germany, Macedonia, Bulgaria and United Kingdom.