Many of you may already be aware of this organisation - CEO Nimco Ali - I've only just come across it after Nimco's Twitter was linked in another thread.
'The Global Partnership To End FGM' - works with 'over 90 partners including Action Aid, Plan International, the ONE Campaign, Women for Women International and Global Fund For Women, as well as dozens of grassroots women’s organisations.'
Looks like they've had major achievements: ''In 2020, Sudan banned FGM as a result of our advocacy – a country where nearly 9 out of every 10 women have been affected'
But what I found refreshing was looking at African issues through the lens of (African) women and girls.
'Business as usual and working through traditional ‘aid architecture’ is not sufficiently reducing violence against women and girls in Africa. Nor is it building economic sustainability. With a decade to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals, along with an urgent need to recover from COVID-19, we need to trust and empower women’s rights organisations and strengthen movements to deliver the structural changes needed to shift the dial on ending FGM and other forms of violence. Alongside this we also need to support the economic justice of African women so they can lift themselves, their families and their societies out of poverty and into prosperity.'
More power to them.
www.thefivefoundation.org/