{"id":28751,"date":"2026-05-26T08:00:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T12:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.equimundo.org\/?p=28751"},"modified":"2026-05-22T18:39:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T22:39:38","slug":"caring-manhood-can-reshape-relationships-institutions-and-futures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.equimundo.org\/es\/caring-manhood-can-reshape-relationships-institutions-and-futures\/","title":{"rendered":"Caring Manhood Can Reshape Relationships, Institutions, and Futures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For media inquiries, please contact: press@equimundo.org<\/p>\n<p><strong>May 2026 &#8211; Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda, Deputy Executive Director of UN Women, welcomes the MenCare Changemakers at the opening of the first World <a href=\"https:\/\/changemakers.equimundo.org\/mencare-changemaker-summit-2026-rio\/\">Summit<\/a> on Caring Manhood.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Caring Manhood Can Reshape Relationships, Institutions, and Futures\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IXrA9_7lESs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ahead of the <a href=\"https:\/\/changemakers.equimundo.org\/mencare-changemaker-summit-2026-rio\/\">MenCare Changemaker Summit\u2019s<\/a> launch, Nyaradzayi stressed the urgency of redefining manhood through care, empathy and shared responsibility &#8211; describing it as key to gender equality, violence prevention, and stronger communities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She praised grassroots leaders, youth advocates and men\u2019s engagement networks for driving change in homes, schools, workplaces, and policy arenas &#8211; noting that transforming social norms requires both personal commitment and institutional reform.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nyaradzayi outlined three priorities: investing in <strong>care policies<\/strong> that enable men to share unpaid domestic work; <strong>scaling evidence-based programs<\/strong> that promote healthy masculinities and prevent violence; and ensuring <strong>sustained funding and decision-making power<\/strong> for women\u2019s rights and youth-led organizations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She linked caring manhood to broader development goals, Nyaradzayi stressing that equitable caregiving boosts child wellbeing, advances women\u2019s economic participation, and strengthens social cohesion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Calling the summit a \u201cturning point,\u201d\u00a0 Nyaradzayi urged governments, businesses, faith and traditional leaders and the media to champion positive role models and dismantle stereotypes that limit both men and women. She also emphasized data-driven accountability, the importance of listening to survivors and frontline workers, and the need to measure progress through concrete indicators &#8211; such as increased parental leave uptake by fathers, reduced violence, and expanded community services.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Positioning UN Women as a partner to the <a href=\"https:\/\/changemakers.equimundo.org\/meet-the-changemakers\/\">Changemakers<\/a> convening at the summit, Nyaradzayi reaffirmed the agency\u2019s commitment to policy guidance, program support, and cross-country learning, closing with a call for collective action:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Caring manhood is not a slogan but a daily practice that can reshape relationships, institutions, and futures.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>\u00bfTienes preguntas o quieres cubrir esta historia?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Reach out to our press team:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:press@equimundo.org\">press@equimundo.org<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For media inquiries, please contact: press@equimundo.org May 2026 &#8211; Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda, Deputy Executive Director of UN Women, welcomes the MenCare Changemakers at the opening of the first<\/p>","protected":false},"author":243,"featured_media":28752,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","program_areas-caring-men"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.equimundo.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.equimundo.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.equimundo.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.equimundo.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/243"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.equimundo.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28751"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.equimundo.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28754,"href":"https:\/\/www.equimundo.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28751\/revisions\/28754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.equimundo.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.equimundo.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.equimundo.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}