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Engaging Boys and Men in Contraception Use and Family Planning: A Slide Deck

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International agreements have long recognized the positive role that men can play in family planning and reproductive health. Declarations, such as the Programme of Action adopted at the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development, called for increased engagement of men to share the responsibility for family planning and reproductive health with women.

In many countries, men have dominated household decisionmaking around family size, contraception, and access to or use of health services. This has furthered harmful gender inequities and left women unable to make family planning decisions or access services without their male partners’ permission or financial support. Engaging men as supportive partners can lead to improvements in couple decisionmaking and better health outcomes for men, women, and their families. We are missing a significant opportunity for potential work and impact by ignoring men as contraceptive users and supportive partners.

This slide deck, funded by USAID through the Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health (PACE) Project, consists of 57 data-driven slides that can be used by advocates, program planners, and funders, to make the case for engaging boys and men in family planning. The presentation includes a discussion of men and women’s ideal family size, men’s current use of and beliefs about contraception, advantages to men of being involved in family planning, and multiple barriers and challenges that keep men and boys from accessing and receiving the reproductive health information and care they need. Additional sections include a focus on adolescents, case studies that highlight interventions in developing countries, and an in-depth look at vasectomy, one of the few male-focused contraceptive options.

Note to Users: The slide deck was intentionally designed so that presenters can select among the various sections and 57 slides. You may want to use specific sections or fewer slides for emphasizing relevant points, depending on the audience and the message to be conveyed. Due to the file size of the presentation, the PowerPoint will be directly downloaded onto your computer. Please check your recent downloads folder on your file explorer or internet browser.

Find the Slide Deck Here.

                 

Male Engagement Task Force – Programmatic Meeting

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When: Monday, January 22, 2018, 8:30AM – 11:30AM EST
Where: 1776 Massachusetts Ave NW, Conference Room 301, Washington, DC 20036

The Interagency Gender Working Group’s Male Engagement Task Force’s next meeting will focus on programmatic strategies to meaningfully engage men and boys in health. Please join us for a half-day meeting hosted at Jhpiego and the USAID Maternal Child Survival Program’s offices in Washington, DC.

Please RSVP to joya.banerjee@jhpiego.org, indicating whether you will join in-person, or remotely online.

 

Not the Usual Suspects: Engaging Male Champions of Women, Peace and Security

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While men still dominate leadership roles within national and international security structures, they have remained on the sidelines of the Women, Peace, and Security movement. Even as awareness of Women, Peace, and Security has grown, efforts to engage men have been ad hoc and good practices have not been shared, especially at the policy level.

The Women in Public Service Project is pleased to welcome Our Secure Future and the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security to the Wilson Center for a public panel conversation on the current level of men’s engagement in Women, Peace and Security and what steps we can take together to encourage more male allies to join the movement.

Please join us at 9:00am for coffee and refreshments. The panel conversation will begin promptly at 9:30am.

Introduction

Gwen K. Young
Director, Global Women’s Leadership Initiative and Women in Public Service Project, The Wilson Center

Speakers

Sahana Dharmapuri
Director, Our Secure Future: Women Make the Difference

Ambassador Steven McGann
Founder, The Stevenson Group

Tim Shand
Vice President of Advocacy and Partnerships, Promundo

Jolynn Shoemaker
Consultant, Our Secure Future: Women Make the Difference

Ambassador Donald Steinberg
CEO, World Learning, Inc.

Ambassador Melanne Verveer
Director, Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security

Making Microbicides a Game-Changer for Women’s HIV Prevention

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On June 24, 2014, Rose Wilcher, Michele Lanham, and Robyn Dayton of FHI 360 shared the findings and programmatic resources from activities undertaken in Kenya and South Africa designed to identify strategies and generate support for gender transformative microbicide introduction in the future.

Hailed as a much-needed female-controlled HIV prevention method, women will likely face barriers to access and use microbicides when and if they are licensed and rolled out. To ensure the future success of this product, they argued, programs must be informed by a sound understanding of how gender norms and inequalities as well as the potential role of male partners may affect women’s microbicide use. Additionally, they noted that microbicide use could potentially change the relative status of men and women in a community, and that sound gender analysis should be a part of programs which make use of microbicides.

Presentation:

  • Rose Wilcher, Michele Lanham, and Robyn Dayton, “Microbicides for Women’s HIV Prevention: Addressing Gender Inequality and Male Engagement” (PDF: 2307 KB)

Event Materials

Gender Transformative Parenting Skills to Interrupt the Cycle of Violence

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The third event in our year-long series was Gender Transformative Parenting Skills To Interrupt the Cycle of Violence and focused on parenting programs as an early approach to preventing GBV throughout the lifecycle, starting during childhood.

Our first panelist, Prof. Mark Tomlinson of Stellenbosch University, South Africa presented two presentations virtually: Parenting Interventions as Prevention, an overview of the field of parenting programs in international development, and Sikhula Ndawonye, an initiative developed with support of the Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI), using the latest evidence to design cutting edge parenting projects and working with mothers of infants in South Africa.

Kim Ashburn of Georgetown University’s Institute for Reproductive Health presented on The Making of REAL Men: Involving Men in Violence Prevention  in Uganda, sharing the project’s approach, evaluation results and lessons learned.