Hosted by the Interagency Gender Working Group Male Engagement Taskforce Background: The data and reporting are increasingly clear: Men have specific vulnerabilities and roles related to COVID-19, and key gender considerations underpin them. Some of these vulnerabilities and roles relate to men’s health behaviors (such as their comparatively lower use of masks), men’s historically limited roles in caregiving, and increased rates of domestic violence experienced...Read More
Youth and Gender
DO’s & DON’Ts for Engaging Men & Boys: Now Available in French, Portuguese, and Spanish
What: What should you do, and not do, when engaging men & boys in health promotion and gender equity? This 2-page resource brings together recent best practices and lessons learned for male engagement across health areas. It is intended to guide decision-making about programs, policy, media coverage, research, and funding priorities. Who: Developed by the USAID Interagency Gender Working Group’s Male Engagement Taskforce, which is...Read More
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Raising Kind Boys and Amazing Girls
This five-minute video, cut down from a longer documentary, explores the work of two South African researchers, Rebecca Helman and Kopano Ratele. They have conducted interviews, ethnographic observations, and a survey into gender inequality, equality, and violence. Their work seeks to not only grasp and show how inequality is thought of and manifests in homes, but how egalitarian families understand equality and inequality, do equality,...Read More
DO’s & DON’Ts for Engaging Men & Boys
As efforts to engage men and boys in gender-related work increase, it’s important to maintain the best practices and principles learned from the past two decades of programming. This two-page resource brings together practices and lessons learned for male engagement across health areas and is intended to guide decisionmaking about programs, policy, media coverage, research, and funding priorities. Read More
Empowering Today’s Young People to Create the Future We Want to See Tomorrow: A Q&A with Carlos Alvarado Quesada, President of Costa Rica
Jyotir Nisha of Women Deliver and H.E. Carlos Alvarado Quesada, the 48th President of Costa Rica, discuss the links between climate change and gender equality, reinforcing the need to position young people, particularly girls and women, at the heart of decision making to power progress for all. In this Q&A, they discuss what it means to mobilize everyone, everywhere to overcome gender inequality and win...Read More
