Co-Coordinators Editorial Greetings MenCare partners and colleagues. As we are drawing closer towards the end of 2022, I would like to express my heartfelt appreciation to each one of you for the amazing work that you are doing in your countries to promote the global fatherhood campaign. This year has been an amazing one with …
Written by: Kate Doyle, Equimundo Fellow and Emmanuel Karamage, RWAMREC In Rwanda, efforts have been ongoing to take the gender transformative Bandebereho intervention to scale through the health sector, with the long-term aim of making the intervention available to all families nationwide. Bandebereho, adapted from Program P, engages men in promoting maternal, newborn and child …
Society for the Improvement of Rural People (SIRP) in Okpanku Community of Enugu State, Nigeria organizes knowledge-sharing session on female genital mutilation (FGM) for 15 participants, comprised of various men and boys. …
On Friday, August 28 Sonke Gender Justice through MenCare South Africa and MenEngage Africa will be launching the MenCare in Africa Media Kit: a toolkit aimed at promoting men as caregivers and fathers by offering guidelines on how to use the power of the media within advocacy initiatives, educational programs, and media campaigns. The Media …
The Babe Locotfo campaign is a social media and in-person awareness campaign on positive fatherhood. Kwakha Indvodza through this campaign positively engages Eswatini men by actively encouraging and emphasizing the importance of a father’s role in the family. …
MenCare partner Brighter Initiatives for Revitalization & Development (BIRD-Liberia) reminds us that “caregiving is not to be told, but must be seen as a vital responsibility.” BIRD-Liberia works to move communities from dependency to self-sufficiency through ecological sustainability and empowerment of youth and girls.
As of January 1, 2020 all parents in South Africa will now be entitled to 10 days paid parental leave when their children are born. The legislation does not apply to mothers who have given birth since they are already entitled to maternity leave. It does however increase the level of benefits due to mothers …
