On March 19, which is Father’s Day in Portugal, Equimundo-Europe launched a new MenCare campaign in Portugal called "Eu sou pai" (in English, "I am a father"). …
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MenCare is excited to welcome new country partners in Pakistan, Portugal, and Switzerland to the global campaign! Equimundo-Europe in Portugal, masculinities.ch and the Swiss Institute of Masculinities and Gender Issues in Switzerland, and the AMAL Human Development Network in Pakistan joined MenCare this year to work on research and community campaigns that support men’s active involvement in fatherhood and caregiving. …
At the International Conference on Family and Child Integration in St. Petersburg on March 26, MenCare Russia’s coordinator Nikolai Eremin discussed the ways in which MenCare programming works to engage men in healthy, active ways in the lives of their children and families. Conference participants considered both the individual and structural factors that impact fathers’ involvement in caregiving and household work. …
ABAAD, in partnership with Save the Children, launched an Arabic version of MenCare’s Program P fatherhood training manual for use in Lebanon and the greater Middle East and North Africa region. Program P, which has been adapted in at least 10 countries, from Latin America to Asia and Africa, identifies best practices and provides concrete strategies for engaging men in active fatherhood from prenatal care through delivery, childbirth, and their children’s early years. …
From 2013 to 2015, MenCare partners ECPAT in Guatemala and Puntos de Encuentro and REDMAS in Nicaragua worked within their countries’ existing health systems to promote men’s engagement in active fatherhood and in maternal, newborn, and child health. A new report presents the results of their work. …
Prenatal sex selection is a blatant form of gender-based violence. In Armenia, inequalities that contribute to this practice often persist in the home. To prevent this harmful practice and to promote greater gender equality, World Vision Armenia, Equimundo, and MenCare recently launched a manual to work with youth and couples to critically examine and transform underlying social norms that contribute to prenatal sex selection. …
