Reports
Authors: Henny Slegh, Gary Barker, Augustin Kimonyo, Prudence Ndolimana and Matt Bannerman
The benefits of women’s economic empowerment are well-known and documented in the development literature. Few studies and interventions, however, have explored how men react or can be engaged to enhance such interventions. This article presents an evaluation of a pilot project in Rwanda in collaboration with CARE Rwanda’s Village Savings and Loan (VSL) programme that deliberately engaged men as partners of women beneficiaries of the micro-credit programme.
Download in EnglishAuthors: Sonke Gender Justice Network and Promundo
This report presents the initial results from IMAGES conducted by Sonke Gender Justice Network, Promundo-USA and Institute for Mental Health of Goma, in Goma, in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo.
Authors: Srdjan Dusanic in collaboration with Promundo
This report presents results from IMAGES conducted in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with attitudes and behaviors of men and boys as part of the project implemented by Perpetuum mobile – Center for Youth and Community Development and CARE International North-West Balkan and supported by Promundo.
Authors: Piotr Pawlak and Gary Barker
This document summarizes results from the report, Hidden Violence: Preventing and responding to sexual exploitation and sexual abuse of adolescent boys, Case Studies and Directions for Action, prepared in 2012 by Promundo for the OAK Foundation. It first introduces some of the literature on the topic, then follows with international project experiences featuring a case study and video clip produced in Nicaragua. Conclusions, emerging issues and final recommendations are then presented.
The purpose of this publication is to review policies and programmes that promote or facilitate the involvement of fathers and father-figures from the pre-natal period through the first eight years of their children’s lives; and to establish evidence of these programmes’ potential to impact on Family violence, child abuse or children’s health or learning outcomes. Twenty case studies primarily from the Global North with some from the Global South are presented, plus a catalogue of additional projects and discussion of key issues. While there were numerous challenges in developing this review (see below), valuable insights have emerged. The paper concludes with recommendations for future research, policy and programme design and evaluation. It also draws attention to ways in which best practice in programme areas in the Global South which have successfully addressed men and fathers (e.g. HIV prevention, women’s economic empowerment and maternal and child health) may be transferred to interventions more directly related to parenting.
Authors: Danielle Bittencourt and Vanessa Fonseca
In 2011 and 2012, with the support of, Promundo conducted 68 awereness workshops on Gender, Sexuality and Health in 38 cities located in 14 states: Alagoas, Amazonas, Bahia, Ceará, EspÃrito Santo, Maranhão, Mato Grosso do Sul , Minas Gerais, Pernambuco, Rio Grande do Norte, Rio Grande do Sul, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Sergipe. Aiming to promote the questioning of rigid gender norms and reflect on the influences of these standards on sexual and reproductive health of adolescents and youth, the workshops offered educational tools and promoted debates and exchange of experiences from the meeting between professionals from different fields and communities residents.
In this publication, we aim to tell a little of this project, by presenting some results from the workshops and action plans and by portraying some of this collective learning.
Authors: Instituto Promundo (Coordination), International Center for Rechearch on Women (ICRW), Culturasalud, Cetre for Health and Social Justice, Rwandan Men’s Resource Centre in colaborations with The MenEngage Alliance
This report is an impact evaluation study of multi-country project to engage men and boys in preventing violence against women and promote gender equality. Implemented in India, Brazil, Chile and Rwanda, with support from the United Nations Trust to End Violence Against Women, the project activities in each country varied but all included educational workshops with men and young men on gender equity and training programs with partner staff on evidence-based methodologies for the prevention of violence against women.
Authors: Gary Barker, Francisco Aguayo, Pablo Correa, Eduardo Kimelman, Juan Manuel Contreras, Márcio Segundo, Marcos Nascimento, Juan Guillermo Figueroa
This report presents discussions and recommendations for the development of policies that involve men as active participants for gender equity achievement. It contains data from IMAGES (International Men And Gender Equality Survey) and a policy analysis conducted in the context of The Men and Gender Equality Policy Project, both projects carried out by multi-country NGOs working with men and gender equity and coordinated by Promundo and the ICRW.
