On March 8, organizations, activists, and individuals around the world will commemorate International Women’s Day, celebrating women’s empowerment and highlighting efforts still needed to reach true gender equality. This International Women’s Day, MenCare: A Global Fatherhood Campaign is sharing messaging around the importance of recognizing and redistributing unpaid care work between men and women as a …
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In 2017, MenCare global co-coordinator Equimundo and Lebanese NGO ABAAD launched a project to adapt and implement Program P – a gender-transformative fatherhood methodology – with Lebanese and Syrian fathers and couples in Beirut, with a special focus on early childhood development (ECD). The project is co-funded by UN Women and by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs through Prevention+. The …
The survey Men and Gender Relations in Georgia, conducted with UNFPA’s support, finds that only 14% of men in Georgia are primarily responsible for cooking, only 13% do the laundry, and only 12% clean the apartment. The share of men involved in daily childcare activities such as selecting books for their children to read, talking with teachers …
At an event in St. Petersburg on December 1, 2017, MenCare partners in Russia launched an interactive map showing the Russian organizations, centers, and activist groups that are working to engage men as involved fathers and caregivers in the country, as part of the new “Отцовство в России” (“Fatherhood in Russia”) online portal. The interactive …
MERGE for Equality, a MenCare partner in the United States, is working to change the way we raise boys through two pilot initiatives targeting early childhood educators and child-serving agencies: the Developing Healthy Boys Training and the Children’s Book Campaign. On November 29-30, 2017, nearly 60 early childhood educators and community leaders, representing more than …
World Vision Lanka’s Nuwara Eliya Area Program (AP), a MenCare partner, recently conducted its annual graduation from the MenCare program in the Hill Country of Sri Lanka. After participating in 11 sessions to build gender-equitable parenting and caregiving skills, a total of 225 fathers graduated from the program, modeled on MenCare’s Program P. During the event, graduating fathers …