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Reframing Men and Boys in Policy for Gender Equality: Conceptual Guidance and an Agenda for Change
(Institute of Development Studies, Promundo-US and Sonke Gender Justice, 2016-03-15)Gender inequality remains a critical challenge and threatens to severely undermine progress towards the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).1 On average and globally, women only earned in 2015 what men earned almost ... -
Reframing men and boys in policy for gender equality
(IDS, Sonke Gender Justice, Promundo, 2016-03-03)This briefing highlights some implications for policy from the learning in the EMERGE project. It makes the case for re-framing policy on gender equality in order to more productively factor in men and boys, and it suggests ... -
Lessons in good practice from work with men and boys for gender equality
(Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Sonke Gender Justice, Promundo, 2015-11)This practice brief, part of the EMERGE project, will be useful for those designing and implementing projects, programmes and other initiatives to work with men and boys for gender equality. It addresses: How to focus or ... -
Mobilizing Against Sexual Harassment in Public Space in Egypt: From Blaming “open cans of tuna” to “the harasser is a criminal”.
(2015-10-21)In the aftermath of the Egyptian revolution in 2011, young men and women led highly innovative initiatives to counter increased levels of sexual harassment in Egypt’s public spaces. This study examines what has happened ... -
Mobilising against sexual harassment in public space in Egypt: From blaming ‘open cans of tuna’ to ‘the harasser is a criminal’
(Promundo-US, Sonke Gender Justice, Institute of Development Studies (IDS), 2015-10)This story of change pulls out the key points and recommendations from EMERGE case study 8, which highlights the work of HarassMap and Imprint in Egypt. These initiatives are challenging sexual harassment in public spaces. -
The ‘One Man Can’ Model: Community Mobilisation as an Approach to Promote Gender Equality and Reduce HIV Vulnerability in South Africa
(Promundo-US, Sonke Gender Justice and the Institute of Development Studies, 2015-10-05)One of the main contextual factors driving the HIV epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa is shared social norms reinforcing restrictive masculine and feminine roles and inequitable gender relationships, which limit women’s ability ... -
The One Man Can model: Community mobilisation as an approach to promote gender equality and reduce HIV vulnerability in South Africa
(Promundo-US, Sonke Gender Justice, IDS, 2015-09)This story of change pulls out the key findings and recommendations from EMERGE case study 6, which focuses on the One Man Can initiative in South Africa. The initiative works through community mobilisation to question ... -
Living Peace: From Conflict to Coping in Democratic Republic of Congo
(Promundo-US, Sonke Gender Justice and the Institute of Development Studies, 2015-09-29)Conflict in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has caused millions of people to lose their lives, suffer displacement or become the victims or perpetrators of violence. Although there has been a spotlight on sexual violence ... -
Living Peace: From conflict to coping in Democratic Republic of Congo
(Promundo-US, Sonke Gender Justice, IDS, 2015-09)This story of change pulls out the key findings and recommendations from EMERGE case study 7, which focuses on the Living Peace project in DRC, an initiative using group therapy to reduce sexual and gender based violence ... -
MenCare in Latin America: Challenging harmful masculine norms and promoting positive changes in men’s caregiving
(Promundo-US, Sonke Gender Justice, IDS, 2015-09)This story of change pulls out the key findings and recommendations from EMERGE case study 5, which examines the work of the MenCare in Latin America - a campaign to promote positive changes in men's caregiving roles. -
MenCare in Latin America: Challenging Harmful Masculine Norms and Promoting Positive Changes in Men’s Caregiving
(Promundo-US, Sonke Gender Justice and the Institute of Development Studies, 2015-09-23)This study details the implementation and impact of MenCare – a global fatherhood and care giving campaign – in its engagement of men as involved, non-violent fathers for the advancement of gender equality in six Latin ... -
‘One Hand Can’t Clap by Itself’: Engagement of Boys and Men in Kembatti Mentti Gezzimma’s Intervention to Eliminate Female Genital Mutilation and Circumcision in Kembatta Zone, Ethiopia
(Promundo-US, Sonke Gender Justice and the Institute of Development Studies, 2015-09-22)The successful involvement of men and women as part of a community-wide approach to shifting deep-rooted norms is critical for the abandonment of female genital mutilation and cutting (FGM-C). However, there is limited ... -
Swapping the stick for a broom: Men supporting women in local politics in India
(Promundo-US, Sonke Gender Justice and the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), 2015-09)This Story of Change pulls out the key findings and recommendations from EMERGE Case Study 4, which focuses on the work of the Samajhdar Jodidar project in rural Maharashta, India. The project works with men to catalyse ... -
We do it ourselves: Nijera Kori and the struggle for economic and gender justice in Bangladesh
(2015-09)This story of change pulls out the key findings and recommendations of EMERGE case study 2, which focuses on the work of Nijera Kori, a national social movement in Bangladesh fighting for economic and gender justice. -
''One hand can’t clap by itself’: Engagement of boys and men in KMG’s intervention to eliminate FGM-C in Kembatta zone, Ethiopia
(2015-09)This story of change pulls out the key findings and recommendations from EMERGE case study 3, which focuses on the work of KMG to eliminate female genital mutilation-cutting in Ethiopia. -
Beyond the prostate: Brazil’s national healthcare policy for men (PNAISH)
(Institute of Development Studies, 2015-09)This story of change pulls out the key findings and recommendations from EMERGE case study 1, which looks at Brazil’s national healthcare policy for men, and the ways that tackling the ‘men’s health gap’ can have gender ... -
Engendering Men: A Collaborative Review of Evidence on Men and Boys in Social Change and Gender Equality
(Promundo-US, Sonke Gender Justice and the Institute of Development Studies, 2015-09-16)This evidence review is part of a two-year learning and evidence project, EMERGE – or ‘Engendering Men: Evidence on Routes to Gender Equality’ – being undertaken by the Institute of Development Studies, Promundo-US and ... -
Swapping the Stick for a Broom: Men Supporting Women in Local Politics in India
(Promundo-US, Sonke Gender Justice and the Institute of Development Studies, 2015-09-16)Women’s engagement, leadership and decision-making in the public sphere continues to be suppressed in much of rural India. It is controlled by cultural norms which place women as subordinate to men, and prescribe their ... -
Beyond the Prostate: Brazil’s National Healthcare Policy for Men
(Promundo-US, Sonke Gender Justice and the Institute of Development Studies, 2015-09-16)There are only three countries in the world – Australia, Ireland, and Brazil – with national men’s health policies. The Brazilian case is particularly compelling. In 2009, the Brazilian Ministry of Health, along with civil ... -
We do it Ourselves: Nijera Kori and the Struggle for Economic and Gender Justice in Bangladesh
(Promundo-US, Sonke Gender Justice and the Institute of Development Studies, 2015-09-16)Deep-rooted patriarchal systems uphold gender and class-based inequalities in Bangladesh, within which the issue of land distribution and use remains integral to the transformation of poverty for a large number of women ...