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Training of professionals

  • Legislation should provide that health professionals, education and social service providers, youth professionals, police, prosecutors, and judicial officers receive training on the issue of FGM as a part of the core curriculum.
  • Legislation should provide that health professionals receive regular training on FGM prevention, care for victims of FGM, and the abolition of FGM medicalization.  Legislation should mandate the allocation of funds for this purpose. 
  • Legislation should provide that law enforcement, immigration officials, and others who may come in contact with immigrant populations that practice FGM, receive training and culturally appropriate educational programs developed by community-based organizations that provide insight into the situation of such refugee and immigrant groups and the factors that contribute to the continued practice of FGM. 

 

CASE STUDY: Final Report of the DAPHNE Project No. 97/2/096,
“Towards a Consensus on Female Genital Mutilation in the European Union”

The Daphne Project on Female Genital Mutilation in Europe, carried out by the International Centre for Reproductive Health, Defence for Children International section, The Netherlands and the Royal Tropical Institute of Amsterdam, sought to study the legal, medical and socio-cultural aspects of FGM in Europe and the resources available to prepare a European strategy for combating FGM.  The project inventoried existing FGM-related resources and legislation in European Union countries, and issued recommendations to strengthen efforts to combat FGM on multiple levels.  The project report recommended, inter alia, that:

Education for health professionals should be carried out at different levels using varied methodologies and materials: 

-Local hospitals and primary care level (general practtioners and school health services):  guidelines, study days, in-service training, information provision through hospital and university libraries;

-Academic level:  inclusion of FGM as a subject in all curricula for medical and para-medical courses, journals, textbooks;

- National level:  guidelines on the socio-cultural, medical and legal aspects of FGM for all medical and para-medical professional organizations as well as for European (para)-medical professionals working in countries where FGM is performed;

- European level:  practical courses for health care professionals  

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