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increase FGM reporting and increase collaborative efforts and strategic partnerships among stakeholders towards ensuring there is an end to FGM by 2030.
Secondly, we organized market sensitization programs focused on increasing the knowledge of the community members on female genital mutilation, its dangers, and the need to abandon it.
This sensitization process reached over 3,000 market women and men with information on FGM in Oje Market in Ibadan, Oyo State and Odori Market in Iwo, Osun State as well as the
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communities surrounding them. Furthermore, we implemented the 'Reach the Young Ones' program with the support of the Ekiti State Technical Committee on FGM. This intervention reached over 3,300 students and teachers in 7 secondary schools in Ekiti and Ebonyi States, with information on Female Genital Mutilation and its impact on the health and productivity of young children.
Lastly, we organised a capacity building workshop in partnership with the Ministry of Health in Oyo, Osun and Oyo States for 47 security agents was organized to increase the ability of security
agents to effectively handle cases of FGM by increasing their knowledge on understanding Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) laws and policies and improving reportage of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) cases.
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