From EMERGE
During the second phase of the EMERGE project, we have developed eight case studies in order to illustrate key evidence based approaches and highlight evidence gaps. The case studies document learning from across different regions - Africa, Middle East, Latin America and South Asia. Each case study is accompanied by a Story of Change, which pulls out the key findings and recommendations.
'Beyond the prostate: Brazil’s national healthcare policy for men (PNAISH)', EMERGE Case Study 1
‘We do it ourselves: Nijera Kori and the struggle for economic and gender justice in Bangladesh', EMERGE Case Study 2
‘One hand can’t clap by itself’: Engagement of boys and men in KMG’s intervention to eliminate FGM-C in Kembatta zone, Ethiopia’, EMERGE Case Study 3
'Swapping the stick for a broom: Men supporting women in local politics in India', EMERGE Case Study 4
MenCare in Latin America: Challenging harmful masculine norms and promoting positive changes in men’s caregiving’, EMERGE Case Study 5
'The One Man Can model: Community mobilisation as an approach to promote gender equality and reduce HIV vulnerability in South Africa’, EMERGE Case Study 6
'Living Peace: From conflict to coping in Democratic Republic of Congo' EMERGE Case study 7
‘Mobilising against sexual harassment in public space in Egypt: From blaming ‘open cans of tuna’ to ‘the harasser is a criminal’’, EMERGE Case Study 8
See also IDS case studies on the involvement of men and boys in addressing sexual and gender based violence under our work on ‘Empowerment of Women and Girls’.
http://interactions.eldis.org/gender-based-violence/policy-findings
Updates
The EMERGE project has produced an evidence report that critically assesses trends and shifts in engaging men and boys for gender equality over the past 20 years. It explores successful policies and programmes and implications for best practice, as well as future directions for promoting men and boys’ support for gender equality, across a variety of priority thematic areas. Find out more about the report here.
Gender justice is not just a fight for women, by women: a clear message from the 59th United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW59) which took place 9-20 March 2015 in New York. The event marked 20 years since the 1995 Beijing Fourth World Conference on Women and its landmark Platform for Action. The role of men and boys was a hot topic at CSW, with many side events on the topic full to bursting point, and a dedicated discussion in the main session. IDS reports on the event.
Partners in EMERGE will be speaking at the International Conference on Men and Masculinities in New York on 6 March 2015, in the run-up to the UN Commission on the Status of Women. The event brings together international experts on men and masculinities within the context of health working at the research, programming and policy levels. It will seek to advance the debate on approaching gender and health from a more comprehensive perspective – one that also engages men as clients, partners and advocates. The seminar will be broadcast as a webinar and people will be able to send questions in real time to the panellists via join.me and Twitter.
The EMERGE project partners have published an annotated bibliography on the site. This document library is a collection of the most significant literature on engaging men and boys for gender equality. It includes datasets, books, articles and programme reports published in recent years and is organised by theme.
