Integrating rights-based approaches into community-based health projects: Experiences from the prevention of female genital cutting project in East Africa

Health and Human Rights

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 251-271

  Igras, Susan ^a   Mutteshi, Jacinta ^a   WoldeMariam, Asmelash ^b   Ali, Saida ^c  

^a CARE USA   (United States)

^b CARE International   (Ethiopia)

^c CARE   (Kenya)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 7044265050     PISSN: 10790969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4065358     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), The State of the World's Population: Reproductive Rights and Reproductive Health (New York: UNFPA, 1997).
2. B. Shell-Duncan and Y. Hernund, Female "Circumcision" in Africa: Culture, Controversy and Change (London: Rienner Publishers, 2000).
3. E. Kirberger, K. Randolph, and N. Toubia, Intersections Between Health and Human Rights: The Case of Female Genital Mutilation (New York: Rainbo, 1995).
4. S. Igras, J. Muteshi, A. WoldeMariam, and S. Ali, Integrating Rights-Based Approaches into Community-Based Health Projects: Experiences from the Prevention of Female Genital Cutting Project in East Africa (Washington, DC: CARE USA, 2002)
5. N. Toubia, Female Genital Mutilation: A Call for Global Action (New York: Rainbo, 1995).
6. S. Igras, M. Aden Abdi, Z. A. Ahmed, T. Kadgu, P. Kilele, J. Kinama, Y. Muhumed, N. Oigo, A. Osman, M. B. Yussuf, Findings from Group Discussions and Exercises to Explore Issues Regarding Female Genital Cutting (FGC): Dagahaley Refugee Camp in Dadaab, Northeast Kenya (Washington, DC: CARE USA, 1999);
7. A. WoldeMariam and J. Muteshi, FGC in the Awash Afar Region: Findings of a PLA Exercise (Washington, DC: CARE International in Ethiopia, 2000).
8. G. Driscoll, The Door: Perceptions and Perspectives on FGC Abandonment Efforts in the Refugee Camps of Dadaab, Kenya (Internal report: CARE USA, 2002).
9. A. WoldeMariam, "Report on Focus Group Discussions on Rights Issues Among the Afar," unpublished draft, 2000.
10. N. Nuworo, FGC: Exploring Issues of Social Change and Community Responses to Implementation of Project Activities: Findings from Focus Group Discussions (CARE International in Kenya, 2003);
11. A. WoldeMariam, Results of the FGDs on FGC Abandonment, FGC Operations Research Project (CARE International in Ethiopia, 2003).
12. G. Driscoll, The Unwanted Way: The Afar-Ethiopia's Fierce Nomadic Tribe and Struggle to Abandon FGC (Internal Report: CARE USA, 2002).
13. J. Chege, J. Muteshi, S Igras, and I Askew, Testing the Effectiveness of Community-Based Approaches for Encouraging Abandonment of Female Genital Cutting in Ethiopia and Kenya (Washington, DC: Population Council-Frontiers in Reproductive Health Program, in preparation).