Taking gender equality and health equity work with men and boys to scale

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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
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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 strategiescommunity
education and mobilisation, legal and policy
reform, mass media, networking, and
organisational developmentto achieve gender
equality, address HIV and AIDS and promote human
rights.
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Building on and expanding from group education
approaches

• Solid body of research showing that well designed
  group interventions can bring about important
  changes in mens 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.

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Taking gender equality work with men to scale
community mobilisation, communications and policy
approaches
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Mass Media
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Community Media Radio, CTV, Murals, PhotoVoice
and Digital Storytelling
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Policy approaches
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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.

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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.

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• The 2012-2016 SA NSP recognises that gender
  norms
• discourage men from accessing HIV, STI and TB
  services, contribute to violence against women,
  multiple partnerships and ...encourage alcohol
  consumption.
• 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
• 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.
• Importantly, it is noted that the roll-out of MMC
  should include gender sensitisation. (NSP, pp.
  23, 39 41)

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Defuse mens resistance to gender laws and
policies

• MAGE work on the three gender acts in Sierra
  Leone
• MASVAWs work on the 2005 DVA in India
• Sonkes work to educate men on the 2007 SOA and
  the Traditional Courts Bill.

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Challenge laws and policies that undermine gender
equality
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Making Policies Work Working with Womens Rights
Partners to Monitor Implementation and Promote
Accountability

• Essential to support, monitor and hold government
  and private sector accountable for implementation
  of laws and policies.
• SAB Miller and Liquor Act
• Monitoring CGE, Judiciary, JICS and NSP
• Mens advocacy visibility important
• Accountability work generates media and shifts
  norms.

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Changing Policy at the Global Level

• Some examples
• UNAIDS Agenda for Accelerated Country Action on
  Women, Girls and HIV and resultant global
  meetings with 90 countries on integration of
  gender into NSPs.
• Kenya and the International Criminal Court?
• The post 2015 MDG/SDG Agenda

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Call for Action Post 2015 Agenda
Sample Indicators
UN Goals
Priorities

• of men who tell their partners what they earn
• of men and women who report joint decision
  making on financial decisions
• of mens income dedicated to the household

Engage men as partners in efforts to improve
womens economic empowerment (incl. in
microcredit programmes)
Work with men and boys to prevent GBV

• 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

Encourage mens contribution to caregiving
(including parental leave)
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Call for Action Post 2015 Agenda
Sample Indicators
UN Goals
Priorities

• 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

Engage the education sector in addressing gender
inequality Increase comprehensive gender
equality and rights education in schools for both
boys and girls (which includes GBV)
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Call for Action Post 2015 Agenda
Sample Indicators
UN Goals
Priorities
Address mens health and health-seeking
behaviour Engaging men as supportive partners in
the promotion of SRHR, maternal health and in the
prevention of HIV

• 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

Engage men and boys in efforts to end GBV in
conflict and post-conflict settings (including
creating non-violent male identities and
understanding livelihood trauma needs)

• 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