[{"bbox": [172, 153, 1134, 259], "category": "List-item", "text": "be engaged directly to support with sensitization and awareness creation, capacity training and strengthening, coordination, collaboration and mobilization local communities for engagement in various programme initiatives at the local levels, and review and strengthening of county level gender action plans, and budgets on eradication of FGM."}, {"bbox": [135, 259, 1134, 313], "category": "List-item", "text": "- **Kenya Bureau of Statistics (KNBS)** has a mandate to collect national data and statistics on different subjects including FGM prevalence, complementing KNBS Demographic Health Surveys."}, {"bbox": [135, 313, 1134, 447], "category": "List-item", "text": "- **Gender Sector Technical Working Groups** coordinated within the Ministry of Gender and involving multiple stakeholders within the thematic area of gender will lead in coordinating the efforts of the various stakeholders and ensure that there is harmony in approach both at national and county levels. The Anti-FGM steering committees at the counties will be crucial in coordinating the efforts of county level stakeholders towards the common goal of ending FGM by 2030."}, {"bbox": [98, 458, 256, 485], "category": "Section-header", "text": "**Rights Holders:**"}, {"bbox": [135, 497, 1134, 630], "category": "List-item", "text": "- **Civil Society Organizations (CSOs)** will be engaged at community level where they play a critical role in awareness creation and sensitization, including using existing or creating dedicated digital platforms that facilitate and promote community level surveillance, dialogues education and awareness especially among young girls and women on eradication of FGM. This collaboration will provide much needed synergies, getaways on local mechanisms to establish intergenerational dialogues on eradication of FGM."}, {"bbox": [135, 630, 1134, 711], "category": "List-item", "text": "- **Local communities:** young girls, youth (both girls and boys), mothers, cutters, traditional leaders, religious leaders will take part in consultations, awareness and sensitization, and in decision making process at their local levels as ultimate beneficiaries of the programme. More specifically:"}, {"bbox": [135, 711, 1134, 844], "category": "List-item", "text": "  - **Adolescents and young people** will gain good understanding on SRHR and achieve positive attitudes including of harmful practices, sexual abuse and an increased ability to obtain SRH services when needed. They will also be empowered to play an active role in their communities to promote gender equality and contribute to the improvement of adolescent and gender responsive services. Some of the girls will be offered scholarship opportunities to enable them access education."}, {"bbox": [135, 844, 1134, 923], "category": "List-item", "text": "- **Boys and young men** will also be targeted so that they develop positive masculinity, contributing to their support as agents of change in promoting elimination of FGM and other harmful practices and enhance gender equality."}, {"bbox": [135, 923, 1134, 1083], "category": "List-item", "text": "- **Parents, primary caregivers, other family members, community and religious leaders** will be targeted so that they are able to critically reflect on and transform negative social norms and support their children in their SRHR. Teachers and mentors will be targeted as change agents in the programme and will be used to instil knowledge and skills to the children, adolescents and young people as well as parents in project activities aimed at awareness raising to result in improved health seeking practices and behaviours as well as improved social norms and attitudes change."}, {"bbox": [85, 1137, 604, 1171], "category": "Section-header", "text": "# 3 DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTION"}, {"bbox": [85, 1203, 509, 1235], "category": "Section-header", "text": "## 3.1 Objectives and Expected Outputs"}, {"bbox": [98, 1248, 1065, 1301], "category": "Text", "text": "The **Overall Objective** of this action is to support Kenya's efforts to effectively eradicate Female Genital Mutilation."}, {"bbox": [98, 1315, 509, 1342], "category": "Text", "text": "The **Specific Objectives** of this action are to"}, {"bbox": [174, 1353, 1134, 1404], "category": "List-item", "text": "1. Strengthen the capacity and action of duty-bearers at the national and county levels to help eradicate FGM."}, {"bbox": [174, 1419, 1134, 1474], "category": "List-item", "text": "2. Improve access to quality public education including digitization of information and community-based-services on the eradication of FGM and sexual and reproductive health."}, {"bbox": [98, 1511, 1019, 1539], "category": "Text", "text": "The **Outputs** to be delivered by this action contributing to the corresponding Specific Objectives are"}, {"bbox": [168, 1550, 1134, 1605], "category": "List-item", "text": "1.1 Duty bearers and decision makers are better equipped to implement legal framework and allocate adequate resources for effective prevention and response to FGM."}, {"bbox": [1038, 1681, 1144, 1707], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 7 of 22"}]