Social expectations about masculinity both shape and are shaped by conflict. A program being run in Lebanon creates safe spaces where young men can think critically to challenge harmful ideas and redefine masculinity in order to create a more socially just and equal world.
This programming and influencing package includes resources developed for programs that aim to increase male engagement in nurturing care and early childhood development (ECD), as well as
In 2017, Equimundo and Lebanese NGO ABAAD launched a project to adapt and implement Program P – a gender-transformative fatherhood methodology – with Lebanese and Syrian fathers
Findings and Lessons Learned From an Evaluation of a Community-Based Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program for Young Men provides a brief introduction to the Manhood 2.0 intervention, describes Child
In December 2017, MenCare global co-coordinator Equimundo and Steering Committee member MenEngage Alliance conducted a training of facilitators on engaging Bhutanese, Burmese, and Nepalese refugee and immigrant fathers in the United States through a new program called Fatherhood 2.0.
In September 2017, Institute for Reproductive Health (IRH), Tearfund, and Equimundo co-led a satellite event titled, Exploring the Links between Intimate Partner Violence and Family Planning Use: Building Knowledge for Normative Change to Promote Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health, at the Sexual Violence Research Institute (SVRI) Forum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Over the past 20 years, Equimundo’s work in research and program implementation has shown that meaningful, transformative engagement with men and boys can have a significant impact
The Care, Coping and Connection under COVID-19 report presents findings from a phone survey with 500 couples in Rwanda, examining the impact of the pandemic on stress,
Starting on November 25, organizations around the world will join a movement to spread awareness and take action during the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence (GBV)
Launched today, The Global Sexual and Reproductive Health Service Package for Men and Adolescent Boys – developed by the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) and United Nations Population
Adolescent Relationships in Rwanda: Dating, Couple Conflict, and Sexuality, produced by Promundo and Health Development Initiative (HDI), presents findings from qualitative research in Kigali and Rutsiro. This
Starting on November 25, organizations around the world join a movement to spread awareness and take action during the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Campaign.
Romantic relationships are a common part of the adolescent experience in Latin America and the Caribbean. However, young people are forming relationships while they’re also trying to navigate their own sense of self, and the world around them, amidst limited prospects for education and employment, widespread rural poverty, and high urban violence.
In 2016, Rutgers and partners Sonke Gender Justice, Promundo-US, and MenEngage Alliance started Prevention+: a five-year, multi-country program in Indonesia, Lebanon, Pakistan, Rwanda, and Uganda that sought
Though interrupted by COVID-19, the implementation of the Very Young Adolescence (VYA) 2.0 program in Malawi presented valuable insights into adapting and introducing an intervention focused on
Succumbing to pressures from the conservative base of Brazil’s National Congress, the country’s Ministry of Education (MEC) is about to approve another setback to gender equity in schools. At the beginning of April 2017, it was proposed that the terms “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” be removed from the National Common Curricular Base (Base Nacional Comum Curricular, or BNCC) for elementary schools – the guideline for classroom content in Brazil.
The State of America’s Boys: An Urgent Case for a More Connected Boyhood presents research and expert perspectives and investigates what it is about boyhood that too
Results from a sustained impact evaluation of a psychosocial intervention targeting men to prevent intimate partner violence. See the full report here, launched in September 2017. Written
This year, Equimundo is co-hosting the Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) Forum 2017 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on September 18–21. Held for the first time in
Over the course of 10 days in July, 50 police officers in Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) participated in a gender-transformative training led by Equimundo, as
This learning brief is part of a set of three from Plan International Canada and Equimundo; the brief documents lessons learned from Plan International Canada’s Strengthening Health
This learning brief is part of a set of three from Plan International Canada and Equimundo; the brief documents lessons learned from Plan International Canada’s Strengthening Health
This learning brief is part of a set of three from Plan International Canada and Equimundo; the brief documents lessons learned from Plan International Canada’s Strengthening Health
Masculinities and Preventing Violent Extremism: Making the Connections seeks to shed light on the question, “What do masculinities have to do with violent extremism?” The report finds
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