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Advocacy for the effective implementation of the Maputo Protocol in Guinea and Sierra Leone

Projet : advocacy for the effective implementation of the Maputo Protocol in Guinea and Sierra Leone (2013)

Financial Partner: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)

Total Cost:

Duration:  1 year

Conutries : Sierra Leone

Projet : advocacy for the effective implementation of the Maputo Protocol in Guinea and Sierra Leone

Objective:   create an enabling environment for the implementation of Article 5 of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mauritania and Sierra Leone

Results

  • The project raised awareness among Sierra Leone actors on the process of ratifying the protocol with the African Union;
  • the process allowed interaction and solidarity between civil society organisations working together for the ratification of the protocol;
  • Key actors in Sierra Leone are committed to working towards the ratification of the Maputo Protocol by December 2013: A national action plan was set up that allowed all national actors to work together towards the ratification of the Protocol within an action platform;
  • 300 representatives from more than 29 countries learned about the experience of the supra-regional project and the work of religious leaders to end FGM at the 54th session of the ACHPR;
  • Sharing of the good practices and innovative approaches to combating FGM with 88 participants at the 57th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW57);
  • Dr Cheick Liman shared the strategy implemented by religious leaders to advance the fight against FGM in the West African sub-region, including the experience of Fatwas, an argument and a preaching guide on FGM to build the capacity of religious and promote the abandonment of this harmful traditional practice;
  • argument and a preaching guide were disseminated;
  • On 2 July 2015 at around 1.20pm, Sierra Leone ratified without reservation the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women today, after a lengthy debate on articles 5, 6 and 14a, b, c.