by LP | Sep 1, 2020 | ALTERNATIVE RITES OF PASSAGE
ALternative rites of passage The Guideline for Conducting an Alternative Rite of Passage In July 2018 the Anti-FGM Board and the Kenyan ministry of public service, youth and gender affairs published a Guideline for Conducting an Alternative Rite of Passage. It...
by LP | Aug 4, 2020 | ALTERNATIVE RITES OF PASSAGE
ALternative rites of passage The Limits of Alternative Rites of Passage Few studies have been conducted on ARP. Some preliminary conclusions can be drawn from the existing ones. Recently, ARP has received some criticism, after having gone largely unquestioned...
by LP | Aug 4, 2020 | ALTERNATIVE RITES OF PASSAGE
ALternative rites of passage Members’ contributions to the ARP discussion To emphasize the role of community participation for the success of ARPs, Bertine Pries from Amref underlined that within the past decade, 17,000 girls in the Maasai and Samburu...
by LP | Aug 3, 2020 | ALTERNATIVE RITES OF PASSAGE
ALternative rites of passage A comparative study of the implementation of ARPs in Kenyan communities The Population Council implemented a comparative study on the alternative rites of passage (ARP) implemented in the Kuria and Kisii districts, Kenya. The report...
by LP | Aug 3, 2020 | ALTERNATIVE RITES OF PASSAGE
ALternative rites of passage Amref’s approach: community-led ARP Amref Health Africa is an international NGO that has chosen to focus on the implementation of alternative rites of passage (ARP) in order to fight against FGM. This approach is used in the...
