Male Engagement Blog Posts

To address the unmet modern contraception need and high discontinuation rate, Breakthrough ACTION is working with Burundi to shift harmful social norms.

Friendships enhance health, but boys and men often struggle with building friendships. Fortunately, the skills they need to do so are learnable.

Participants in the Know, Care, Do: A Theory of Change for Engaging Men and Boys in Family Planning course benefited from a cohort-based learning approach.

This blog post highlights how Breakthrough ACTION leveraged the Africa Cup of Nations soccer event to encourage men to champion their families’ health.

In Tanzania, Breakthrough ACTION is improving reproductive and maternal health outcomes by engaging men and redefining gender roles.

This Breakthrough ACTION course aims to help programs serve the family planning and reproductive health needs of men and boys in a supportive and equitable way.

Engaging with men and boys as clients, partners, and agents of change in family planning can make it more gender equitable and effective.

This article highlights how including vasectomy in family planning programs helps improve method choice and points readers to relevant advocacy materials.

Breakthrough ACTION piloted premarital counseling in Nigeria to promote better relationships and gender equality, leading to better health outcomes.