First Short Self-Assessment – Module 12

Scenario 1

You are a Community Support Worker based in a migrant resource centre.  You have recently become aware that some of the women attending your English as a second language class have been subjected to FGM. How should you respond?

1. There is no point in trying to end FGM because:

 Nearly 100% of the girls and women have been cut it must mean that all members agree with FGM

 FGM is linked to religion and it is important to help communities maintain their religion

 It is not the place of host countries to try to change the culture of communities that has existed for centuries

 Some of the above

 None of the above

 All of the above

2. Ending FGM in Europe will be easy because:

 All practising communities in Europe all agree with the norms and values of the host country

 All migrant communities are the same, so a strategy that worked in one community will work for all

 Young people born in Europe do not identify with the culture of their parents’ country of origin

 Some of the above

 None of the above

 All of the above

3. When organising an event to consult affected communities on FGM, you must:

 Make extra effort to enable women to effectively participate – including language, childcare and domestic responsibilities

 Facilitate the engagement of youth

 Actively seek out men, who might otherwise not consider it their place to discuss ‘women’s business’

 Undertake some (qualitative) research on the communities you wish to reach

 None of the above

 All of the above

4. To change social norms of practising communities you may:

 Identify and work with individual community change agents

 Empower girls and women to resist existing social norms

 Engage boys and men in advocacy and campaigning

 Work with and through institutions like schools and clubs

 None of the above

 All of the above

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