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The Global Media Campaign​

GMC trains, funds and supports activists to use key influencers like religious and community leaders on the media to End FGM. They are in charge – not us.

Together we have reached over 900 million people across Africa with unprecedented results.

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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

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Ademola Adebisi Aissata Sidibé Ali Mohamed ASIA Catherine Thiakunu Christine Alfons Deji Adefila Dominic Kimitta Domtila Chesang Dorcas Famuyegun Dr. Wilberforce Oti Ebrima Saidykhan 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 Kilimo Sadia Hussein Salim Godala Samuel Leadismo Sarjo Camara-Singateh Selina Nkoile Shucayb Obsiye Shuceyb Obsiye Solomon Kemei Success stories Susan Kutingala 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

Our Partners

Testimonials

"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
As an academic who spent 30 years studying FGM interventions - the GMC campaign is the most impactful and effective I have ever come across
Dr. Tobe Levin
Dr. Tobe LevinFebruary 2020, Associate of the Hutchins Center for African and African-American Research at Harvard University