The MenCare 50/50 Commitment for Government Departments Gender norms and a lack of supportive government policies hold both women and men back. Governments have a role in creating laws and policies that support all parents, caregivers, and families, in all their diversity, to thrive – from affordable childcare to living wages, social support to affordable …
We are gearing up for an exciting week at the Women Deliver conference in Kigali, Rwanda where we look forward to seeing many of our partners. At the conference, we’ll be hosting the first launch event of our biennial State of the World’s Fathers report, the world’s only global report on men’s involvement in parenting …
MenCare: Where you’d rather be? Be an engaged and caring dad from day one. Use your right to father’s leave! For more information about father’s leave in Croatia visit festivaltata.hr.
Beginning on July 1, 2020, parental leave for partners has been extended in the Netherlands by five weeks. Up until 2019, partners and fathers only had two days of paid leave.
In 2017, MenCare global co-coordinator Equimundo and Lebanese NGO ABAAD launched a project to adapt and implement Program P – a gender-transformative fatherhood methodology – with Lebanese and Syrian fathers and couples in Beirut, with a special focus on early childhood development (ECD). The project is co-funded by UN Women and by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs through Prevention+. The …
The MenCare 50/50 Commitment for Employers MenCare 50/50 Commitment applications are now open! The MenCare Global Fatherhood campaign is now accepting Expressions of Interest from businesses to be included in the 2023 cohort of the MenCare 50/50 Commitment for Employers. What is the MenCare 50/50 Commitment for Employers? To sign the Commitment, employers must have …
Today, June 15, MenCare launches the State of the World’s Fathers 2021 report, exploring the persistent individual and structural challenges – and providing recommendations for addressing them – that contribute to the unequal distribution of care work. The fourth State of the World’s Fathers report launches today as part of the MenEngage Ubuntu Symposium, which …
In case you missed it: CARING Webinar Series MenCare recently hosted the fourth webinar in the CARING series, “Invest in Care and Measure It, Disaggregated by Gender, Social Class, and Age,” highlighting strategic recommendations from the State of the World’s Fathers 2023 report, with speakers from the Center for Global Development, International Labour Organization, and World Bank. Watch the …
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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