Document Type
Report
Publication Date
2001
Abstract
Maendeleo Ya Wanawake (MYWO), with technical assistance from the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), has been implementing an Alternative Rite of passage programme as part of its efforts to eradicate the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) in five districts in Kenya. This study addressed the factors that influence some families and individuals to adopt the Alternative Rite while others, exposed to the same messages discouraging FGM, decide not to. It also evaluated the effect of the training component of the Alternative Rite on the girls who participated.
Recommended Citation
Chege, Jane, Ian Askew, and Jennifer Liku. 2001. "An assessment of the alternative rites approach for encouraging abandonment of female genital mutilation in Kenya," FRONTIERS Final Report. Washington, DC: Population Council.
DOI
10.31899/rh1.1009
Language
English
Project
A Research Agenda to End Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) in a Generation; Frontiers in Reproductive Health
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