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The Global Media Campaign​

Our mission is to work with activists to use media to end FGM by 2030, and also to put ending all forms of violence against women, including child marriage, on the top of the local media agenda.

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1000 + 

Media Graduates

8

Countries

2000 +

Media campaigns

How we work

1. Training

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2. Action

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3. Report

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1. Training

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2. Funding

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3. Action

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Who are the Activists trained and funded by GMC?

Find out more about the 1000 + campaigners trained as media activists at GMC’s academies in 8 countries: Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Kenya, Somalia, The Gambia, Ethiopia, Mali, and Guinea.

Sadia Hussein

Media graduate and activist driving down FGM rates by 84% in Hola, Tana River region, Kenya.

Gift Abu

Running Nigeria’s biggest anti-FGM media campaigns in Cross River State.

Ifrah Ahmed

Campaigner and survivor, leading media campaigns in Somalia and Ethiopia.

Hassan Istiila

Journalist and GMC graduate leading on cross-border TV campaigns, East Africa.

Lucy-Ann Ganda

Sierra Leone’s most famous campaigning journalist leading media teams across her country

More activists
Ademola Adebisi Aissata Sidibé Ali Mohamed Anthonia Oshiniwe ASIA Busayo Soyebo Catherine Thiakunu Christine Alfons Dauda Yusuf Deji Adefila Dominic Kimitta Domtila Chesang Dorcas Famuyegun Dr. Wilberforce Oti Fatuma Hakar FGM Geoffrey Broderick Hassan Abdirahman Hassan Istiila Ifrah Ahmed Kenya Mohammed Abdullahi Nastehe Aftin Nigeria Plan International Raymond Okpani Robi Chacha Omondi Ruth Harley Ruth Kilimo Sadia Hussein Selina Nkoile Shucayb Obsiye Solomon Kemei Success stories Susan Kutingala Team Bombali Team Koinadugu Team Port Loko Team Tonkolili UNFPA Vincent Ogallo Walter Mounde Wemimo Adewuni World Bank Yusuf Dauda

Campaigners' latest impact results

Media survey - Tana River, Kenya. (January 2021)

80%

Have heard our campaigns

91%

Understand the medical dangers

of FGM

97%

Changing minds about FGM

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Testimonials

"The way GMC works is Fast, Efficient and Cheap"
Isabella Micali Drossos
Isabella Micali DrossosNovember 2021, Senior Counsel, World Bank
"I am glad that we partner with the Global Media Campaign to reach out to local level campaigners to promote and amplify their work with Direct Action Media grants"
Mireille Tushiminina
Mireille TushimininaFebruary 2021, Coordinator of the UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme on the Elimination of FGM
What the Global Media Campaign is doing is unprecedented - it’s new, it’s revolutionary and critically, it is on a huge scale. It could be the golden ticket to ending FGM.
Dr. Azza Karam
Dr. Azza Karam September 2020, UN Inter-Agency Task Force on Religion and Development