Equimundo is excited to announce that Tim Shand, Vice President for Advocacy and Partnerships, will be representing Equimundo as the new MenCare global co-coordinator. Ruti Levtov, who served as MenCare global co-coordinator since 2013, will be supporting Tim in this transition, and will continue to be involved in MenCare in other capacities. Tim brings to …
On September 1-2, 2017, MenCare partner Instituto Equimundo participated in the Third National Seminar on Parenting and Early Childhood (III Seminário Nacional Paternidades e Primeira Infância) in São Paulo, Brazil. On the first day of the seminar, Milena do Carmo, Equimundo’s MenCare coordinator in Brazil, moderated the session “Diverse Fatherhood,” which featured a presentation on imprisoned …
This month, psychologist and MenCare partner Darío Ibarra appeared on Desayunos Informales, an Uruguayan television program, to discuss same-sex parents and raising children without reinforcing gender stereotypes. Darío emphasized that to grow up healthy and happy, children need (1) unconditional love, (2) care, (3) a violence-free home, and (4) freedom from gender stereotypes – all …
On October 2, 2017, IIPE UNESCO Buenos Aires hosted a Spanish-language webinar on “Shared Responsibility in Parenting: Public Policy Initiatives in Latin America” (“Corresponsabilidad parental en la crianza: Iniciativas de política pública en América Latina”). The webinar featured MenCare partner Francisco Aguayo, who is the director of Fundación CulturaSalud/EME in Chile, MenCare Latin America coordinator, …
On September 22–23, 2017, the University of Parma hosted a seminar in Parma, Italy on the current realities of fatherhood and caregiving, along with MenCare partner Il Giardino dei Padri (a network of Italian organizations) and local associations from Parma, led by Maurizio Artoni of Il Cerchio dei Papà. In recent decades, perceptions of fatherhood …
MenCare’s global co-coordinator Equimundo is adapting a series of guides for use by MenCare partners around engaging men in maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) and in sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). The guides will outline the rationale for and approaches to engaging men in MNCH and SRHR, providing best practices for designing …
