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The Population Reference Bureau (PRB) is a core partner on the Population Council’s Evidence to End FGM/C: Research to Help Girls and Women Thrive—a UKAID-funded research program to help end female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) within one generation. Our role is to build the consortium’s capacity for research utilization and to develop innovative tools and products to improve how researchers communicate their findings about FGM/C to key decisionmakers.
PRB has developed a reference guide titled Six Practical Tips for Understanding Data on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting. This guide aims to help researchers, advocates, program managers, and policymakers understand, interpret, and use the latest FGM/C data.
Read for tips on:
- Using the FGM/C module regularly.
- Establishing trends through comparable data.
- Being realistic about self-reported data.
- Recognizing that data on daughters have changed.
- Assessing changes in FGM/C rates over time by comparing youngest and oldest cohorts.
- Understanding how the best estimates of girls and women affected by and at risk of FGM/C are derived.