The Knowledge Sharing Dialogues on FGM/C: Evidence-based Strategies for Success approach intends to support the closing of research gaps by exploring available evidence and insights from regional practitioners, activists, academics, and policymakers.
This initiative brings together researchers, practitioners, and policy makers with experience of working to end FGM/C in a particular region through a series of online events and, where possible, culminating in a face-to-face knowledge exchange at the end of the process.
The overall aim is to generate a shared body of knowledge, drawing on both research and practical experience in relation to FGM/C by facilitating a series of virtual knowledge sharing fora in which researchers, practitioners and policy-makers will present, review and critique. This enhanced body of knowledge will be used to inform future programming, policy-making, and research on FGM/C in a particular region.
The methodology has been developed and piloted in dialogue around the topic of alternative rites of passage by the ARP working group (3) and by Orchid Project in a series of dialogues in the Horn of Africa (4,5,6).
