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Female Genital Mutilation

Question for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

UIN HL4112, tabled on 15 January 2025

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to accelerate progress in combatting female genital mutilation worldwide.

Answered on

30 January 2025

The UK is utilising our policy, programmatic and diplomatic levers to accelerate global efforts to end Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). Since 2019, the UK has funded Phase II of the Africa Led Movement (ALM) to end FGM programme in Kenya, Ethiopia, Somalia and Senegal. ALM is working with activists, communities and grassroots organisations to harness evidence-based solutions to take end-FGM efforts to scale. The UK also funds the UN Joint Programme on the Elimination of FGM, to influence legislation, policy, and norm change efforts across 17 countries.