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Taking gender equality
and health equity work
with men and boys to
scale
Sida Development Talk,
Stockholm, September 16th,
2013
Dean Peacock, Executive
Director Sonke Gender Justice
Network, Co-Chair MenEngage
Alliance
Established in August 2006, with 90 staff working in South Africa,
20 African countries and across the world from Johannesburg,
Cape Town, Gugulethu, Bushbuckridge and Pretoria.
Sonke uses a mix of social change strategies—community
education and mobilisation, legal and policy reform, mass media,
networking, and organisational development—to achieve gender
equality, address HIV and AIDS and promote human rights.
Building on and expanding from group
education approaches
• Solid body of research showing that well designed group
interventions can bring about important changes in men’s
gender and health related practices.
• Most group interventions small scale, short-term and
reach modest number of people.
• Achieving gender equality at societal level requires
increasing scale, impact and sustainability of work at the
local, national and global levels.
Taking gender equality work with
men to scale: community
mobilisation, communications and
policy approaches
Mass Media:
Community Media: Radio, CTV, Murals, PhotoVoice
and Digital Storytelling
Policy approaches
Increasing Scale, Sustainability and Impact:
“Direct”/Civil Society approaches.
• Policy can be used to strengthen the capacity, reach
sustainability of NGOs and CBOs working with men.
• Policy can be used by government to embed evidence
based approaches into work of government
departments: community health workers, social
development outreach workers, local sports
authorities.
– Requires careful attention to training of expanded
implementing staff to ensure quality and
replicability.
Policy Approaches to Increasing Scale,
Sustainability and Impact
• Policy approaches can focus on integrating
gender transformative work with men into
existing policy frameworks:
– National AIDS plans
– Comprehensive ban on corporal punishment
– Provision of psychosocial support in schools for
children exposed to violence
– Laws and policies to reduce alcohol access and
consumption: taxes, outlet density, drink driving
– Gun policy: reducing and controlling access.
The 2012-2016 SA NSP recognises that gender norms:
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‘discourage men from accessing HIV, STI and TB services,
contribute to violence against women, multiple partnerships
and ...encourage alcohol consumption’.
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In response it is proposed, ‘A comprehensive national social
and behavioural change communication (SBCC) strategy must
serve to increase demand and uptake of services, to promote
positive norms and behaviours and to challenge those that
place people at risk’
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Challenge the gender norms that influence ‘delaying sexual
debut; reducing multiple and concurrent sexual partnerships’.
‘These strategies must also address the gender norms that
equate alcohol consumption with masculinity’.
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Importantly, it is noted that the roll-out of MMC should
include gender sensitisation. (NSP, pp. 23, 39 & 41)
Defuse men’s resistance to gender laws and
policies
• MAGE work on the
three gender acts in
Sierra Leone
• MASVAW’s work on the
2005 DVA in India
• Sonke’s work to
educate men on the
2007 SOA and the
Traditional Courts Bill.
Challenge laws and policies that
undermine gender equality
Making Policies Work: Working with
Women’s Rights Partners to Monitor
Implementation and Promote
Accountability
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Essential to support, monitor and
hold government and private
sector accountable for
implementation of laws and
policies.
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SAB Miller and Liquor Act
Monitoring CGE, Judiciary, JICS
and NSP
Men’s advocacy visibility
important
Accountability work generates
media and shifts norms.
Changing Policy at the Global Level
Some examples:
1. UNAIDS Agenda for Accelerated Country Action on
Women, Girls and HIV and resultant global meetings
with 90 countries on integration of gender into NSPs.
2. Kenya and the International Criminal Court?
3. The post 2015 MDG/SDG Agenda
Call for Action: Post 2015 Agenda
UN Goals
Priorities
Sample Indicators
Engage men as partners in
efforts to improve
women’s economic
empowerment (incl. in
microcredit programmes)
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Work with men and
boys to prevent GBV
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Encourage men’s
contribution to
caregiving (including
parental leave)
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% of men who tell their partners
what they earn
% of men and women who report
joint decision making on financial
decisions
% of men’s income dedicated to
the household
% of youth who witness and/or
experience violence in their
household
% of men who hold rape
supportive attitudes
% of men who know about and
support existing GBV laws
% of children with paternal
registration at birth
# of average weekly hours spent
providing care for children and
others
Call for Action: Post 2015 Agenda
UN Goals
Priorities
Sample Indicators
Engage the education
sector in addressing
gender inequality
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Increase
comprehensive
gender equality and
rights education in
schools for both boys
and girls (which
includes GBV)
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% of youth who believe in gender
equality
% of youth who exhibit
homophobic attitudes
% of youth who participate in
gender equality education
programs in secondary school
% of schools offering gender
equality education programs
% of youth who witness or
experience violence in their
educational environment
# of countries that have outlawed
corporal punishment
% of boys and girls who believe
sexual violence is permissible
% of boys and girls who complete
secondary education
Call for Action: Post 2015 Agenda
UN Goals
Priorities
Address men’s health and
health-seeking behaviour
Engaging men as supportive
partners in the promotion of
SRHR, maternal health and
in the prevention of HIV
Engage men and boys in efforts
to end GBV in conflict and postconflict settings (including
creating non-violent male
identities and understanding
livelihood & trauma needs)
Sample Indicators
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Life expectancy, men and women
% of men testing for HIV
% men tested who return for result
Proportion of contraceptive use, male
versus female
DALY, men and women
% of men accompany partner to prenatal
visit
% men present during childbirth
% men support contraceptive use
%men ashamed due to lack of work
% of men, women experiencing traumatic
event due to conflict
% men using physical/sexual violence
% men and boys witness and/or
experiencing sexual violence
& men psychological effects of conflict