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How to integrate work with
men for promoting gender
equality and preventing
HIV and GBV?
Tim Shand & Bafana Khumalo (Sonke), Celma
Menezes (Fanelo Ya Mina), Marcel Chisi
(MEGEN) & Nakai Godfrey Nengomasha
(Padare)
5 December 2012
Session
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45 mins: Overview and practical examples,
with discussion
45 mins: Exploring Stepping Stones model
45 mins: Action Planning
Recap Day 1 Key messages….
Well designed interventions with men
work: can improve HIV and GBV outcomes
 Guiding principles for this work
 Moving towards gender transformative
approach
 Gender synchronised
 Gaps in HIV and GBV policies on engaging
men
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Discussion with neighbour…
What is the one thing you would
like to know/learn more about/
raise in relation to strategies for
engaging men and boys for gender
equality in your country?
1. Service/clinic based
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Working on supply side:
Health providers skills and attitudes
 Provision of SRH/clinical services for men:
 Specific services for men /strengthened referrals
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Working on demand side:
Promotion: information and mass media
 Health Education: outreach,
male community health workers
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Example: Men as Partners
project (Engenderhealth)
2. Media
Campaigns
(Sonke)
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National media and
community mobilisation
campaign targeting men 30+
on HIV risk factors: GBV,
alcohol, multiple partners.
BFL ambassadors in national
television, radio and billboard
ads (politicans, South African
soccer, cricket and rugby
teams, other celebrities)
Partnership with JHHESA and others
3. Group
education
(Sonke)
One Man Can
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Supports men to take
action to end VAW,
prevent HIV and
promote healthy and
equitable relationships
Action Kit: Workshop
activities; fact sheets;
posters; DVDs
Community
mobilisation
and branch building
Brothers for Life Reach
One Man Can Reach
•122 workshops across the
country in 2009
•25,000 workshop participants:
18,000 men & 7,000 women.
•260,000 people through
community mobilisation events,
90% men
•Impact on self-reported
behavour: 25% accessed VCT,
50% reported GBV, 61%
increased condom use, 80%
spoke to friends/family
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2.27million men (average 6
times each)
Men & PMTCT campaign
reached 2.5m men (9 times
each).
Outdoor media (messages
on partner reduction,
PMTCT and GBV) reached
6.5M people per month.
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Created in 2010 as a NPO in Mozambique
Mission: Engage Men in the promotion of GE & support
of advancement of women
Why Engage Men:
 Men have a personal investment in challenging the
current gender order, patriarchal processes and
tendencies that undermine not only women’s and girls
status in society but also prevent men to enjoy the
benefits of equality to the fullest;
 Men can be allies in the improvement of their own
health, and the health of women & children who are
often place at risk by existing genders "constructions“;
Men and Boys Supporting Gender Equality & Advancement of Women
About Fanelo Ya Mina
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Gender Transformative Know How
Involving critical self-reflection process on power dynamics within
society & support for strategies that promote gender equality. This
includes:
encouraging men to reflect on their personal values
about gender and their impact on themselves as well
as their female pairs especially related to HIV;
 addressing men‘s individual attitudes and behaviors
regarding their roles in HIV and GBV prevention;
 encouraging men to adopt healthy sexual behaviors;
 increasing men‘s uptake of HIV testing services.
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Men and Boys Supporting Gender Equality & Advancement of Women
Our Approach
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Levels of actions:
Continuum Spectrum of Change/Ecological Model
 Individual (Workshops
 Community Outreach (Basket Tournaments,
Murals)
 Media Advocacy (Weekly Newsletter
addressing several topics such as the
intersections between gender, patriarchy,
culture and socialization)
Men and Boys Supporting Gender Equality & Advancement of Women
Our Approach
• Workshops/Small group discussion with young men from the age group
17-35 years;
• Curriculum adapted from EngenderHealth/Promundo Training Manuals
(Engaging Men and Boys at Individual Level);
• M&E: Process Evaluation, Outcome Evaluation and Impact Evaluation,
GEM Scale
Type of Activity
Gender
Approach
Level of
Interventio
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Target
Audiences
Lengthy/Freq
uency of
Activity
Thematic
Areas
Workshops/
Basketball
matches
Transformative
Individual
Young Men
aged 17-35
years
16 ongoing
sessions;
1h per
session;
Weekly
gatherings,
during
weekends
Gender &
power;
sexuality;
men & health;
substance use;
healthy
relationships;
HIV ; violence;
Men and Boys Supporting Gender Equality & Advancement of Women
Basket Tournaments
PADARE/Men’s Forum on Gender:
Change Agents
"If beating a woman makes me a man then i refuse to be called a man"
Background of PADARE
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PADARE /Enkundleni/ Men’s forum on gender is a movement of men advocating
for gender justice in Zimbabwe that operates in rural, semi Urban, farming
communities and urban areas of the country. The organisation targets men and
boys in all settings that is in workplaces, rural communities, farming
communities, urban communities, schools, agricultural colleges and teacher
training colleges. The organisation programmes are highly interactive and are
community driven through Chapters which are community structures formed to
mobilise men and boys and conduct outreach work on Gender, Masculinities,
Positive fatherhood, positive manhood, Men’s health, advocacy for policy
change, working with men on PMTCT programmes. A chapter then is a group
of 50 or more men advocating for gender justice in a community using dynamic
programming approaches that include communication and networking,
workshops and training, institutional development, lobbying and advocacy
within the framework of the social theory behaviour change models. Currently
the organization has 85 Chapters in Zimbabwe and a membership of over 4250
men in the ten provinces of the country.
"If beating a woman makes me a man then I refuse to be called a
man"
What has worked
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Approaching men as facilitators of change in their communities as
compared to oppressors that always violate women and girls through
involving men and boys in community dialogues on gender and HIV issues
has been a strategy that has been accepted by men and traditional leaders in
different communities.
PADARE has provided practical intervention in community transformation
by using contextualised messages in both print and electronic in mobilising
traditional; leaders to fully participate in PMTCT interventions
Working with community Male care facilitators has been an innovative way
of challenging norms , culture and socialisation when it comes to caring for
the sick.
Working with Positive speakers: these are people that have disclosed their
HIV statues to families and communities and they get to share their
experiences on a open forum to challenge issues of discloser and
discrimination.
"If beating a woman makes me a man then i refuse to be called a man"
what has worked
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working with community drama groups
Working with community soccer teams
Working with musicians
working with traditional leaders and religious
leaders
We have crossed so many rivers, streams and tributaries,
However, oceans still lie ahead BUT we remain resolute on
our slogan:
Men of Quality are Not Afraid of Equality, Real Men Do Not
Abuse Women and Children!
APPROACHES AND STRATEGIES TO WORKING WITH MEN IN
ADDRESSING GBV, SRHR- MMC, FENDOMS, HIV TESTING,
TREATMENT,, CARE AND SUPPORT IN MALAWI
BY THE MEN FOR GENDER EQUALITY NOW (MEGEN)
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Rapid Response. Empowered men who are willing to face fellow
men involved in GBV
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Capacity Building-We build capacity of Men through training to
articulate gender and Gender Based Violence, SRH,HIV and AIDS
issues in their engagement with their fellow men and the society at
large. (You can be passionate but without facts and knowledge you
can not reach any other man beyond yourself)
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Community Awareness through Men to men groups that engage in
sustained dialogue on issues of Gender and Gender Based Violence
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Advocacy and policy engagement- To advance laws and policies
that have a positive impact on addressing gender concerns
including Gender Based Violence
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Building Alliances- Working with the strategic
role of Men so as to create more role models
and voices on GBV.
Recruitment of men in strategic roles
magistrates, police officers, social welfare
officers, sports personalities, farmerscommercial and subsistence, Religious
leaders, Media workers, traditional leaders,
legislators, vendors and lately the Malawi Army
are active members of the movement. (Male
dominated institutions)
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Husbands schools with the view of dealing with male
weaknesses in conjugal activities and general marital
relations which also contributes to some form of GBV which
further leads to HIV and AIDS
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Campfire conferences community education by our structures
so as to reach out to the hard to reach men in places where
they are accessible and free to be engaged
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Training of Men in promotion of maternal health, SRH and the
role of men in family planning including promotion of the use
of female condoms by men in partnership with UNFPA
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Men Travelling Conference during each years sixteen days of
Activism-Regional and national
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Overall
Gender norms to be addressed as root cause of HIV – focus on gender norms
transformation (young men)
Education
Education on gender equality highlight benefits for men
Comprehensive sexuality education for boys and girls
GBV
Interventions to highlight role men can play in preventing GBV, supporting GBV
victims, and be advocates for change
- Address underlying gender-norms linked to violence
PMTCT/ Vertical transmission
- Encourage men to support PMTCT as partners and advocates (ensuring the do no
harm and safety first principles)
MMC
Interventions to be part of a broader package and include gender equality education
Interventions to guard against inhibition
MenCare clip, Rwanda
Reminder: Recommended language for NSPs on
men, gender inequalities, GBV and HIV
Overall
Gender norms to be addressed as root cause of HIV –
focus on gender norms transformation (young men)
Education
- Education on gender equality highlight benefits for men
- Comprehensive sexuality education for boys and girls
GBV
-Interventions to highlight role men can play in preventing
GBV, supporting GBV victims, and be advocates for change
- Address underlying gender-norms linked to violence
PMTCT/
Vertical
transmission
- Encourage men to support PMTCT as partners and
advocates (ensuring the do no harm and safety first
principles)
MMC
-Interventions to be part of a broader package and include
gender equality education
- Interventions to guard against inhibition
Recommended language for NSPs cont.
Condoms
-Research on men’s attitudes towards condom use
- changing men’s attitudes towards condom use
Testing
- Understand why men don’t test
- Use innovative methods to increase men’s HIV testing
Vulnerable
men
- condoms, lubrication , treatment and testing for prisoners
- interventions tailored to migrants, refugees and MSM
Treatment
-Encourage male health-seeking behaviour, as part of strategy
to improve their uptake of treatment
- Challenge gender norm that sickness = weakness
Care
economy
-Promote men in care work. Target for trained male care
givers
-Address gender-norms that caring is a female domain
So, what makes effective campaigns to change
norms?
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Use positive and
affirmative messages.
Affirm that men and boys
can change
Show what they can do to
change
Show examples of men
changing or acting in
positive ways
Highlight benefits
Repeated messaging over
6-9 months
What Works? What do we mean by
Gender Transformative Interventions?
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Combinations of community outreach,
group education and mass media
Relational approach – working with
men and women
Include critical reflection of gender
norms and how these influence
behavior – achieve tipping point
Target most vulnerable
Measure changes in attitudes toward
gender norms + relevant behaviors.
Links to laws and policies
The Final Message: Acknowledge and Tap into
Men’s Self-Interest in Change
Resources
www.menengage.org
www.engagingmen.net