Title: Taking gender equality and health equity work with men and boys to scale
1Taking 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
2Established 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.
3Building 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.
4Taking gender equality work with men to scale
community mobilisation, communications and policy
approaches
5Mass Media
6Community Media Radio, CTV, Murals, PhotoVoice
and Digital Storytelling
7Policy approaches
8Increasing 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.
9Policy 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.
10- 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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12Defuse 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.
13Challenge laws and policies that undermine gender
equality
14Making 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.
15Changing 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
16Call 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)
17Call 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)
18Call 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