Jean Pierre learned how taking more responsibility for housework and childcare has a positive impact for both him and his family, after participating in fathers groups through Rwanda’s MenCare+ project. …
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To celebrate Children’s Month in June in Mozambique, Fanelo Ya Mina Institute re-launched its “You Are My Father” (“Tu és o meu Papá”) campaign targeting Mozambican men. The campaign seeks to challenge the individual and structural gender determinants related to parenting and caregiving that reinforce inequality. Major campaign activities thus far have included a consultation …
We’re excited to introduce “MenCare Shares,” a new question-and-answer feature in our monthly newsletter! Each month we’ll ask our readers a question, and the following month we’ll publish your answers. In August, we asked partners: What do you do to get fathers involved? “We explain to the father through sensitization and mobilization, the triple advantages …
On July 17, upon the first reading of a draft law, Moldova’s Parliament voted to grand servicemen the right to parental leave. In 2012, Moldova’s Constitutional Court passed a similar verdict, after military counsel Tudor Lazer insisted that providing no parental leave for men in the army is a form of gender discrimination prohibited by …
In June, MenCare Guatemala held 10 training sessions for dozens of health educators, teaching them how to carry out Program P workshops for parents and expectant parents in their own communities. …
MenCare’s co-coordinator Sonke Gender Justice is working to ensure that a special petition to grant fathers the right to 10 days of paternity leave in South Africa is taken seriously, and that Parliament takes up the call to change the law. …
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