Addressing female genital mutilation in the Asia Pacific: the neglected sustainable development target

Dawson, Angela; Rashid, Abdul; Shuib, Rashidah; Wickramage, Kolitha; Budiharsana, Meiwita; Hidayana, Irwan Martua; Marranci, Gabriele

doi:10.1111/1753-6405.12956

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“…Finally, in order to obtain truly global level and trend estimates of FGM risk, including for countries where FGM has been reported anecdotally [29], more representative surveys are needed, including in countries that are traditionally not covered by DHS and MICS surveys or subnational communities that may be best served by other measurement approaches. Research on FGM practices in Europe [30,31], the United States [32], and Asia and the Pacific [33] have been emerging, but more work has to be done to standardize these methods [34]. Such assessment, enhancement and standardization are fundamental for an evidence-based pathway to zero FGM by 2030.…”

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Towards the elimination of FGM by 2030: A statistical assessment

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In 2015, UN member states committed to eliminate female genital mutilation (FGM) by 2030 as part of the Sustainable Development Agenda. To reach this goal, interventions need to be targeted and guided by the best available evidence. To date, however, estimates of the number of girls and women affected by FGM and their trends over time and geographic space have been limited by the availability, specificity and quality of population-level data. We present new estimates based on all publicly available nationally representative surveys collected since the 1990s that contain both information on FGM status and on the age at which FGM occurred. Using survival analysis, we generate estimates of FGM risk by single year of age for all countries with available data, and for rural and urban areas separately. The likelihood of experiencing FGM has decreased at the global level, but progress has been starkly uneven between countries. The available data indicate no progress in reducing FGM risk in Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Mali and Guinea. In addition, rural and urban areas have diverged over the last two decades, with FGM declining more rapidly in urban areas. We describe limitations in the availability and quality of data on FGM occurrence and ageat-FGM. Based on current trends, the SDG goal of eliminating FGM by 2030 is out of reach, and the pace at which the practice is being abandoned would need to accelerate to eliminate FGM by 2030. The heterogeneity in trends between countries and rural vs urban areas offers an opportunity to contrast countries where FGM is in rapid decline and explore potential policy lessons and programmatic implications for countries where the practice of FGM appears to remain entrenched.

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Towards the elimination of FGM by 2030: A statistical assessment

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“…Ethically, it contravenes the child’s autonomy regarding her fundamental human rights to bodily integrity, and choices regarding freedom of association 22. Despite bioethical defences of medicalised FGM/C, 23 , 24 the theoretical consensus opposes it, 13 , 22 legal and policy prohibitions are clear, and practical reform efforts to prevent FGM/C continue to proliferate, including alternative rites of passage into adulthood 14 , 15 , 25 , 26…”

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Female genital mutilation or cutting: an updated medico‐legal analysis

Mathews

Dallaston

2020

Medical Journal of Australia

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“…In India, Bangladesh, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore, Cambodia, Viet Nam, Lao PDR, the Philippines, and Thailand, small-scale primary research studies document the existence of FGM through direct interviews with survivors, community members, and religious leaders. 11 Most of these studies have a small sample size (End FGM European Network, End FGM/C US Network, & Equality Now, 2020; Dawson et al, 2020).…”

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Education Systems for Girls’ Education in the Indo-Pacific Region

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Despite substantial progress over the last two decades, girls in many parts of the world experience worse educational outcomes than boys, particularly at the secondary and tertiary levels. The COVID-19 pandemic appears to have exacerbated this learning gap in many regions, making research on the relationship between girls’ education outcomes and education systems increasingly urgent. This rapid review explores the determinants of girls’ education outcomes in a specific group of Indo-Pacific countries. It examines the education system determinants of these outcomes such as government investment, teacher training, water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) infrastructure in schools, school-related gender-based violence, and indirect costs of education, drawing from pre-COVID-19 data. It also investigates societal determinants such as political factors, poverty rates, labour market participation trends, and child marriage rates. By attempting to explain differences in learning outcomes for girls, it also achieves a typology of countries in the region and suggests ideas for further research and FCDO programming.

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Addressing female genital mutilation in the Asia Pacific: the neglected sustainable development target

Cited by 17 publications

References 15 publications

Towards the elimination of FGM by 2030: A statistical assessment

Towards the elimination of FGM by 2030: A statistical assessment

Female genital mutilation or cutting: an updated medico‐legal analysis

Education Systems for Girls’ Education in the Indo-Pacific Region

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