GTCoP - Community of Practice Training for Gender Equality

 This is a manual for those working with men and boys on issues of gender and health including sexual and reproductive health, and more specifically on increasing access to safe and stigma free abortion services. It consists of five chapters designed for the facilitator to pick out the topics that are needed. The manual is developed to be used in workshop settings and also as a facilitation guide aimed at building the capacity of individuals and organisations to address specific sexual and reproductive health issues with men and boys.

 This booklet provides key information about the MenEngage Africa Training Initiative (MATI). The vision for MATI is to build a dynamic, vocal and visible network of leaders and gender justice advocates that will drive the gender equality and human rights agenda on the African continent. The booklet gives a summary of the MATI course curriculum and includes a CD containing the modules, which can also be accessed online.

This publication was designed to identify good practices from UNFPA’s work on the involvement of men in the prevention of gender-based violence in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. UNFPA and its partners recognize the symbiotic relationship between these issues and gender-based violence, and the advantage of using them as entry points for the engagement of men in prevention programmes. Many innovative projects have been implemented in the region to address gender-base violence with the involvement of men. This publication examines them in depth.

The purpose of this Manual is to serve as a resource for those working with men and youth (boys) around issues of citizenship, rights, gender, health, sexuality and biolence. While the contents are guided by a perspective of social justice and equity, there is an attempt to be ‘male centred’ in approach.

This manual contains tested group education modules intended for fathers and their partners, most often spouses, in the plantation region (or tea estates). The purpose of this manual is to promote gender equality within the home and children’s healthy development and overall well-being. This tool by no means looks at every single dimension of fatherhood, gender equality, and family well-being, but rather offers a series of tested activities and group discussions that provide a strong foundation for addressing and transforming norms within families, communities, and, of course, masculinity.

This toolkit has been prepared to help organizations create affirmative policies which promote the positive roles that men can play in improving their own sexual and reproductive health – and those of women and children. This toolkit is intended for use primarily by those who are responsible for developing organizational policy within national and regional development organizations.

This curriculum was developed as part of a USAID, Health Policy Initiative, that focused on building an enabling policy and institutional environment for constructive men’s engagement (CME) in reproductive health in Mali. This manual is designed to enable community health educators to incorporate activities related to constructive men’s engagement in reproductive health (CME-RH) in their daily work. This includes promoting dialogue among men and women to increase couple communication and shared decision making related to family planning and reproductive health. As such, it can be adapted in other settings, based on local needs.

This module is designed to build the skills of participants working to engage boys and men in gender-based violence (GBV) prevention and reproductive health (RH) in conflict and other emergency-response settings. This module is for personnel working in conflict and other emergency-response settings, including those managing or staffing reproductive health, HIV and AIDS, and/or GBV prevention projects in emergency-response settings or conflict zones. 

This is a manual to help participants develop activities at a community level to create a supportive environment for work related to male engagement and HIV and AIDS. The activities are intended for use with program staff from different organizations interested in working on male engagement and HIV. All of the activities in the manual can be used with groups of men and women .

This manual will help users working with men to question non-equitable views about masculinity and develop more positive attitudes to prevent unhealthy behaviors that put them and their partners and families at risk. It can also be used to train facilitators who will implement workshop activities with groups of men. This manual is a compilation of the most frequently-used activities from two educational curricula—Promundo’s Program H Manual and EngenderHealth’s Men As Partners (MAP) Manual. It has been adapted for use with groups of men and with mixed groups in such diverse settings as schools, youth clubs, military settings, and community groups all over the world.