Media Coverage and Advocacy Report: Partnership With Men and Boys To Transform Social and Gender Norms To End Female Genital Mutilation

The document is a media coverage and advocacy report by the UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme on the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). It covers the activities and achievements of the programme during the International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM on 6 February 2023, with a focus on the theme of partnering with men and boys to transform social and gender norms to end FGM.

• Key Figures and Highlights: The document presents some key figures and highlights of the programme’s impact, such as the number of news coverage, social media outreach, demographic coverage, and women’s and girls’ engagement.
• News Coverage: The document lists the news outlets and platforms that covered the issue of FGM and the programme’s work, including statements and blogs by UN officials and partners.
• United Nations Web Coverage: The document provides links to the web pages of the United Nations, UNFPA, and UNICEF that featured the programme’s events, statements, and reports.
• Social Media Outreach: The document shows the social media engagement of the programme’s global, regional, and country-level accounts, as well as the stakeholders, donors, member states, and government officials that used the hashtags #ENDFGM and #MenEndFGM.
• Events: The document describes the events hosted by UNFPA and UNICEF at the global, regional, and country levels, as well as the events hosted by partners, to raise awareness and mobilize action to end FGM. The events included a high-level broadcast, a dialogue and radio discussion, a roundtable discussion, a docUNight, an open cinema, a launch of phase IV of the programme, a march, a Saleema caravan, and a Twitter chat.
• Interviews: The document mentions the interviews given by UNFPA and UNICEF staff to various media outlets, such as Forbes, BBC, AP News, and UN News, to share their insights and perspectives on the issue of FGM and the programme’s achievements and challenges.
• Launch of Knowledge Products: The document introduces two knowledge products launched by UNICEF and UNFPA in collaboration with Equimundo, which are reports on engaging boys and men to end FGM, based on data and evidence from four countries.