The Girl Generation

Leyla currently works as the Global Advocacy Lead at The Girl Generation: Support to the Africa-Led Movement to End FGM/C. The consortium takes a girl-centered approach where funding and focus are directed to women and girls to take lead their own conversations and have expanded choice and agency.

The Girl Generation: Support to the Africa Led Movement to End FGM/C Programme (TGG-ALM), is a consortium led by Options Consultancy Services and includes Amref Health Africa, ActionAid, Orchid Project, Africa Coordination Centre for Abandonment of FGM/C, and the University of Portsmouth. It works closely with the Population Council’s Data Hub, the programme’s data and measurement arm.

This programme is building on the foundations of the first five-year investment: The Girl Generation and the Evidence to End FGM Research Programme (2013-2018).

The programme seeks to accelerate positive changes in social attitudes toward ending FGM/C, within a broader vision of a world where girls and women can exercise their power and rights, have expanded choice and agency, and be free from all forms of violence. The intended impact of this programme is an accelerated reduction in the practice of FGM/C in focus countries by 2025.