📢Kenya's updated National #FamilyPlanning Guidelines mark a bold move towards improving #SRHR choice + achieving #UniversalHealthCoverage!
Updates include🔹Infertility services🔹Self-care tools🔹High-Impact Practices in underserved regions
https://t.co/SyC0AoijQZ #HealthForAll
In this @FRANCE24 interview, @LeylaHussein from @TheGirlGen shares her experience with #FGM + highlights the need to recognise it as child abuse + sexual assault.
#FGM kills a girl every 12 minutes. Language matters in addressing this violence.
📺https://t.co/L41XGSGnVS #EndFGM
Kenya’s revised National #FamilyPlanning Guidelines mark a major step in enhancing reproductive choice + #HealthForAll!
Key updates include:
🔹 Infertility services
🔹 Self-care tools
🔹 High Impact Practices for underserved areas
https://t.co/SyC0AoijQZ #UHCDay@GeoffreyOkumu4
Over 230M women & girls globally have undergone FGM/C, with 1 in 4 affected in sub-Saharan Africa.
FGM/C denies fundamental rights & perpetuates inequality.
#NoExcuse. UNiTE to End Violence against Women. Stats via @UN_Women#16DaysOfActivism#EndGBV
No girl should have to live in fear of FGM/C or any other form of violence.
This #16DaysOfActivism, let’s protect their rights, amplify their voices, and end gender-based violence. #EndFGM#EndGBV
Join us for our session at the Nigeria Family Planning Conference #NFPC24 on ‘Mobilizing Domestic Resources and Strengthening Public Financial Management for #FamilyPlanning' with @HSCLimited and @results4dev
📅 6 Dec 2024
🕛 9:00am – 11:00am
📍 Hall 1
Will you be at the Nigeria Family Planning Conference #NFPC24?
Join our session on 'Enhancing Accountability & Inclusive Governance for #FamilyPlanning'
📅6 December 2024
🕛11.30am-12.30pm
📍Hall 2
How can health services ensure they meet the needs of the most marginalised? @GhanaSomubi funded CSOs to generate evidence + advocate for better policies for women accused of witchcraft + the Deaf. The results? Vital policy shifts that improve their lives. https://t.co/3oALb5AYR5
📢 Historic breakthrough: Somaliland signs national anti-FGM policy!
This milestone follows a decade of advocacy by @slmesaf with @TheGirlGen, @ActionAid Somaliland, @UNFPA, @UNICEF, @PlanGlobal + local CSOs, marking a major step towards ending #FGM!
🔗https://t.co/mFgrISv1ox
📢 How can we place girls' agency + voices at the heart of #FGM/C advocacy + programming?
Join our webinar, hosted by @ActionAidUK as part of @TheGirlGen, to explore new approaches for ending FGM/C:
📅 7 Nov 2024
⏰ 3:00 - 4:30PM EAT
🔗 Register here: https://t.co/frvjemUr06
📢 Don’t miss this! Webinar on “Centring Girls’ Agency & Voice” discuss girl-centred approaches to end FGM/C & amplify voices against GBV. Secure your spot! #EndFGM#GirlsVoicesMatter
Register Here:
https://t.co/u69gmYAyeQ
What’s the impact of united donor action against FGM/C? Yesterday’s Donor Working Group in DC, hosted by @USEndFGMNetwork, the Global Platform to End FGM/C (which TGG has been part of), & @GWpublichealth, brought advocates, donors & CSOs together to drive a united path forward.
Have you registered?
Join us for an essential discussion at the Global Conference to End Violence Against Children!
➡ Ending Female Genital Mutilation Worldwide
📆 November 6, 2024, 9:00-10:30 AM
📍 Hotel Tequendama, Bogotá
Secure your spot today! 👉 https://t.co/AmO3BecfEo
📈 Kenya is advancing national ownership of #FamilyPlanning (FP) after years of donor reliance, driven by matched arrangements, with health funding having increased by 165% from 2013/14 to 2018/19 + contraceptive use from 39% to 61% .
Find out more👉https://t.co/Z6TnfUdMLK
📢@TheGirlGen celebrated a decade of impact last week!
Speakers like Southwark Mayor Naima Ali, TGG's Amina Mohamed + Calleb Okoyo, @FCDOGovUK's Kajal Mavji + @CPSUK's David Malone shared progress in ending #FGM.
TGG has provided $2M in grants + reached 20M people globally!
💡How can we protect the human rights of people with #MentalHealth conditions where coercive practices persist?
In Ghana, @GhanaSomubi helped establish a Mental Health Review Tribunal to safeguard rights, offering key lessons for other countries.
🔗https://t.co/yPs2t1eqzW
How do we ensure #MentalHealth services are accessible in communities with limited resources + widespread stigma?
@GhanaSomubi trained 87 volunteers to bridge the gap between formal healthcare + communities, reaching over 27k people + reducing stigma.
🔗https://t.co/USnouL15Gk