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.
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.
A Portrait of Wessel van den Berg, MenCare Officer at Equimundo Tell us a bit about who you are. My name is Wessel Van Den Berg and I am a father. I’m a husband. I’m a brother. I’m actually an uncle also. And I’m not yet a grandfather. I live in South Africa. And I …
MenCare’s programs engage men and women around the world to become active parents, more equitable partners, and agents of positive change in their communities. Working with fathers and couples directly, MenCare’s partners encourage men and women to challenge traditional gender roles and provide them with opportunities to learn and practice parenting skills. We also aim …
On August 25, 2023, Equimundo hosted a webinar in a joint effort of both our international campaigns (MenCare and the Global Boyhood Initiative) for the third webinar in the CARING series, “Revolutionize the way boys are taught about care,” highlighting strategic recommendations from the State of the World’s Fathers report.
As a country, we in the US face a storm of overlapping crises, resulting in exhaustion, grief, stresses on our mental health, polarization, and pessimism. In moments of crisis, we often seek to identify a single root issue, which if addressed, might turn the tide and find us in calmer waters. Caring for each other – in …
