Coming out of a 10-year internal review of the MenCare Campaign, the global co-coordinators, Equimundo: Center for Masculinities and Social Justice and Sonke Gender Justice, are seeking to shift the campaign’s work to address some of the concerns raised in the review. In June 2022, several MenCare partner organizations convened in Coimbra, Portugal. At this …
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In 2023, Equimundo launched the State of the World’s Fathers report, featuring six recommendations aligning with the acronym CARING. To accompany the report, we hosted a series of webinars highlighting one of the six recommendations from SOWF 2023. Find links to each of the webinar recordings below and their related resources, slide decks, and speaker …
The State of the World’s Fathers 2023 (SOWF 2023) report reveals that thousands of women and men across the world are calling for care to be central to their lives, which can only be addressed by a fundamental overhaul of power structures, policies, and social norms around both paid and unpaid care work.
Equimundo, as a co-coordinator of MenCare: A Global Fatherhood Campaign, launched the third State of the World’s Fathers report on June 5 at the Women Deliver 2019 Conference in Vancouver, Canada. The event was co-hosted by Equimundo and Unilever, Dove Men+Care, in advance of Father’s Day in many countries around the world. Other international launches, …
In Sub-Saharan Africa, MenCare partners are engaging men as caregivers and as fathers through powerful media campaigns, high-impact program development, and local- and national-level advocacy initiatives in 11 countries. In Benin, Botswana, Cabo Verde, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, and Uganda, our partners focus on issues ranging from gender equality and violence prevention to masculinities and men’s health.
In Europe and Central Asia, MenCare partners are engaging men as caregivers and as fathers through powerful media campaigns, high-impact program development, and local- and national-level advocacy initiatives in 20 countries. In Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Georgia, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom, as well as in the Balkans region, our partners focus on issues ranging from gender equality and violence against women to child protection and family wellbeing.
Motivated by personal experiences and the irony of absent fathers within our group, students studying Communication for Development embarked on a journey to construct and deconstruct fatherhood figures in order to foster stronger families and begin dismantling traditional gender roles.
Italiano sotto By Federico Bastiani “Give a child a piece of paper and some crayons and ask them to draw a car… they will surely make it red,” said Enzo Ferrari. But I must say, this time he was wrong. When Noah, my son, was just three years old and fell in love with Formula …
State of the World’s Fathers is the world’s first report to provide a global view of the state of men’s contributions to parenting and caregiving. A landmark analysis of fatherhood and caregiving, the report draws upon research and statistics from hundreds of studies covering all countries in the world with available data.
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