Resource Type:
Training Guide
Region/Country:
Rwanda
Primary Audience:
Community Members
Technical Area:
Livelihoods and Economic Inclusion, Sexual and Reproductive Health, Gender-based Violence, Family Planning
SBC Approach:
Social and Structural Change, Gender-transformative, Community Engagement, Small Group Sessions, Life Skills
Journeys of Transformation: A Training Manual for Engaging Men as Allies in Women’s Economic Empowerment
This manual provides group education sessions for engaging men as allies in women’s economic empowerment. It emerges from experiences, in Rwanda and elsewhere, that women’s economic empowerment works, but it can be made to work better and achieve even more movement toward equality when men are deliberately engaged as allies.
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Organization/author: Equimundo, CARE Rwanda, Rwanda Men’s Resource Centre
Year: 2012Language: English
Know, Care, Do Theory of Change (learn more)
Components of Engagement:
Know Know about FP/SRH by having factual knowledge about FP/SRH services and methods and harmful gender norms and expectations.
Care Care about FP/SRH by assuming responsibility for their personal health and reproduction and accountability for supporting their partners’ reproductive priorities and needs.
Do Do supportive actions for FP/SRH by taking concrete steps to communicate and help achieve reproductive intentions and goals from themselves and in support of their partners.
Role in Engagement:
Agent of ChangeAs agents of change who actively aim to improve outcomes for themselves, their partners, their families, and their communities.
, PartnerAs partners in their relationships regarding FP/SRH issues and in challenging and addressing gender inequality and inequitable gender norms and roles.
