MenCare is coordinated by Equimundo and Sonke Gender Justice in collaboration with steering committee members Save the Children Sweden, Oxfam GB, Plan International Sweden, and the MenEngage Alliance. MenCare has local and national campaigns active in over 60 countries, implemented by MenCare’s partners. For more information about our partners and their work, see the list below. Americas Canada | Chile | Costa …
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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 the Co-Coordinators …
A Portrait of Wessel van den Berg, MenCare Officer at Equimundo Tell us a bit about who you are. My name is Wessel Van Den Berg and I am a father. I’m a husband. I’m a brother. I’m actually an uncle also. And I’m not yet a grandfather. I live in South Africa. And I …
Coming out of a 10-year internal review of the MenCare Campaign, the global co-coordinators, Equimundo: Center for Masculinities and Social Justice and Sonke Gender Justice, are seeking to shift the campaign’s work to address some of the concerns raised in the review. In June 2022, several MenCare partner organizations convened in Coimbra, Portugal. At this …
We are gearing up for an exciting week at the Women Deliver conference in Kigali, Rwanda where we look forward to seeing many of our partners. At the conference, we’ll be hosting the first launch event of our biennial State of the World’s Fathers report, the world’s only global report on men’s involvement in parenting …
Equimundo, as a co-coordinator of MenCare: A Global Fatherhood Campaign, launched the third State of the World’s Fathers report on June 5 at the Women Deliver 2019 Conference in Vancouver, Canada. The event was co-hosted by Equimundo and Unilever, Dove Men+Care, in advance of Father’s Day in many countries around the world. Other international launches, …
In 2017, MenCare global co-coordinator Equimundo and Lebanese NGO ABAAD launched a project to adapt and implement Program P – a gender-transformative fatherhood methodology – with Lebanese and Syrian fathers and couples in Beirut, with a special focus on early childhood development (ECD). The project is co-funded by UN Women and by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs through Prevention+. The …
In Sub-Saharan Africa, MenCare partners are engaging men as caregivers and as fathers through powerful media campaigns, high-impact program development, and local- and national-level advocacy initiatives in 11 countries. In Benin, Botswana, Cabo Verde, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, and Uganda, our partners focus on issues ranging from gender equality and violence prevention to masculinities and men’s health.
This is the second issue of an evolving report, planned for publication every three years. It can be used in the development of policy and legislation for families, labour market regulations, educational curricula, and other training materials. It can be referenced as a source of expert information for advocacy and community groups, individual families, and …
This manual provides information about MenCare 50:50 Facilitators, how to structure parenting groups, how to facilitate group sessions, and some useful general tips to use in sessions. This manual has been adapted by Sonke Gender Justice, from Program P originally developed by Equimundo, CulturaSalud/ EME, and REDMAS. It has been adapted for the MenCare SA …
