Uganda has made remarkable progress in advancing girls’ and women’s empowerment, promoting their rights in education, leadership, and health. However, amidst this critical work, boys have been gradually sidelined –often assumed to be self-reliant and emotionally immune. As a result, many boys in Uganda today are falling through the cracks, facing neglect, emotional isolation, and …
Written by: Kate Doyle, Equimundo Fellow and Emmanuel Karamage, RWAMREC In Rwanda, efforts have been ongoing to take the gender transformative Bandebereho intervention to scale through the health sector, with the long-term aim of making the intervention available to all families nationwide. Bandebereho, adapted from Program P, engages men in promoting maternal, newborn and child …
Society for the Improvement of Rural People (SIRP) in Okpanku Community of Enugu State, Nigeria organizes knowledge-sharing session on female genital mutilation (FGM) for 15 participants, comprised of various men and boys. …
On Friday, August 28 Sonke Gender Justice through MenCare South Africa and MenEngage Africa will be launching the MenCare in Africa Media Kit: a toolkit aimed at promoting men as caregivers and fathers by offering guidelines on how to use the power of the media within advocacy initiatives, educational programs, and media campaigns. The Media …
The Babe Locotfo campaign is a social media and in-person awareness campaign on positive fatherhood. Kwakha Indvodza through this campaign positively engages Eswatini men by actively encouraging and emphasizing the importance of a father’s role in the family. …
MenCare partner Brighter Initiatives for Revitalization & Development (BIRD-Liberia) reminds us that “caregiving is not to be told, but must be seen as a vital responsibility.” BIRD-Liberia works to move communities from dependency to self-sufficiency through ecological sustainability and empowerment of youth and girls.
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