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CHANGE Plus Promong Behaviour Change Towards the Abandonment of Female Genital Mulaon (FGM) in Pracsing Communies across the EU

European Conference, 23rd November 2017 Charloe Weil, Project Coordinaon, TERRE DES FEMMES e. V.

[email protected] www.change-agent.eu

Objecve: The abandonment of Female Genital Mulaon (FGM) in pracsing African communies in four EU Member States (Germany, The Netherlands, Portugal, France).

Duraon: January 15, 2016 - January 14, 2018

Budget: >800.000 €, co-funded by the European Union under the Rights, Equality and Cizenship Programme

Coordinator: TERRE DES FEMMES, Germany

8 European Partners

• coordinated by TERRE DES FEMMES (TDF), Berlin, Germany • Associação para o Planeamento da Família (APF) in Lisbon, Portugal • Associazione Italiana Donne per lo Sviluppo (AIDOS) in Rome, Italy • Coventry University in London, UK • End FGM European Network in Brussels, Belgium • Équilibres & Populaons (Equipop) in Paris, France • Federae van Somalische Associaes Nederland (FSAN) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands • Sung Hilfe mit Plan in Hamburg, Germany

2 West-African Associated Partners

• Associaon Bangr Nooma in Burkina Faso • Plan Internaonal in Mali

Why?

• FGM is a harmful pracce, acknowledged as a form of gender-based discriminaon

• 200,000,000 aﬀected girls and women worldwide; 500,000 aﬀected in the EU, 180,000 girls at risk in the EU

• FGM is sustained by social pressure, unequal gender relaons, and other forms of violence against women, as well as a lack of informaon on the pracce and its consequences, and taboos around sexuality and violence

Behaviour CHANGE Model

Speciﬁc Objecves of CHANGE Plus

• Empower community members to act as catalysts of behaviour change • Raise awareness on FGM • Promote behaviour change towards the abandonment of FGM • Reduce pressure on families to connue FGM • Integrate community voices into debates on FGM • Create an enabling environment giving advice to public authories, key professionals and other stakeholders on how to beer prevent FGM

Project Acvies

1. Direct parcipaon of pracsing communies • Trainings: Empowerment of CHANGE Agents/Champions • Mentoring of experienced mulpliers for new ones • Behaviour Change Acvies: Promoon of dialogue within communies, behaviour change approach

2. Sensising instuonal and polical level • Sensising key professionals: New prevenon brochure, Video „Amina“ • Dialogue with key professionals and policians through CHANGE Champions

3. Revision of training manual for facilitators

4. Building bridges: Transconnental exchange with associated partners

5. Disseminaon/Public outreach

Who are the CHANGE Agents?

Origin • The 50 CHANGE Agents are from: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Egypt, Ethiopia, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea-Conakry, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Togo. • Mostly countries with high prevalence of FGM Age • The youngest is 17 years old, the oldest 64 Gender • 18 male and 32 female Community members • All of them play acve roles in their communies and are highly movated to facilitate change

Diversity in terms of age, gender, origin and professional experience to ensure that most community members are reached

Training for CHANGE Agents in Hamburg and Paris

Behaviour Change Acvies

• BCAs iniate community-level awareness raising, dialogue and behaviour change in pracsing migrant communies in the EU • Organised by the CHANGE Agents/Champions, e. g. movie debates, kitchen talks, community events (barbecue, concert) • More than 160 community-level acvies, 2.000 people reached

Dialogue with Policians and Other Stakeholders through CHANGE Champions

• CHANGE Champions are experienced mulpliers who already parcipated at the CHANGE project as CHANGE Agents • Mentoring for newly recruited CHANGE Agents • Leadership training for CHANGE Champions: 4 days of training on Advocacy, Media, Resistance, Parcipaon and Moderaon • Parcipaon in local/naonal advocacy acvies, e. g. Roundtables • Lobbying meeng in European Parliament, 26th September 2017

Lobbying Meeng, European Parliament 26th September 2017

Sensising Instuonal and Polical Level: Sensising Key Professionals

New prevenon brochure: “Responding to Female Genital Mulaon: A Guide for Key Professionals”

Updated and translated into three new languages: French, Italian and Portuguese.

Now available in 7 languages: English, Swedish,

Dutch, German, French, Italian and Portuguese. German version of the brochure hp://www.change-agent.eu

Disseminaon / Public Outreach

• Project website www.change-agent.eu • 2 press conferences (1 mid-term on Feb 6, 2017 • and 1 today prior final conference) • 1 video clip, developed by CHANGE Champions • Parcipaon in 4 EU-level conferences • Briefing for journalists in Brussels, 26th Sep 2017 CHANGE Agent Tiranke Diallo at press conference in Berlin © TDF 2017 • EU-wide disseminaon of training manual and prevenon brochure for key professionals • EU-wide disseminaon through website arcles, social media, newsleers • European exchange meeng for CHANGE Agents/Champions, 22nd Nov 2017 • EU-wide final conference (23rd Nov 2017)

Thank you for your aenon!

TERRE DES FEMMES – Human Rights for Women e. V. Brunnenstraße 128 13355 Berlin, Germany Tel. +49 (0)30 40504699-0 www.frauenrechte.de