The Fatherhood Project in Nepal aims to empower local communities, engaging fathers and male caregivers in active, gender-sensitive, nonviolent ways in the lives of their children, partners, and other female family members. …
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MenCare partner World Vision Lanka started MenCare programming in the Ambagamuwa Area Development Program (ADP) in 2012. It found that not only was the program successful in engaging men as fathers and caregivers and as partners in women’s empowerment, but that it also had positive effects on related economic, alcohol-abuse, and nutrition programing in the …
Four fathers in Sri Lanka who participated in MenCare describe the dramatic changes they made to their lives and relationships after joining fathers' groups in their communities, in World Vision Lanka's Ambagamuwa and Nuwara Eliya Area Development Programs. …
In August, MenCare+ Indonesia expanded its work engaging men and fathers in health promotion and violence prevention in two regions. In Papua, MenCare+ began a pilot project to reduce the region’s high rates of violence against women and children, while in East Java, it scaled up work to get men involved in the health sector. …
In July, MenCare Sri Lanka trained 30 religious and community leaders on how to promote involved, nonviolent fatherhood and gender-equitable parenting in their work. Participants in the MenCare “Training of Trainers” program included Christian pastors, Hindu religious teachers, former MenCare facilitators, and community volunteers from the Ambagamuwa Area Development Program (ADP), along with a dozen …
On July 8, MenCare partner Rutgers WPF Indonesia launched the expansion of its MenCare+ program to the eastern Indonesian province of Papua. The launch ceremony was held in the provincial capital of Jayapura, and Indonesia’s Minister for Women’s Empowerment and Child Protection Yohana Yembise gave the launch’s keynote address. UNFPA Indonesia representative Jose Ferraris, also …
