MenCare Facilitators’ Training Manual

This manual provides step-by-step guidance for facilitators to engage participants in the MenCare approach, equipping men with critical knowledge and skills to help them become more active parents, equitable, non-violent partners, and champions for gender equality in their communities. This Manual seeks to engage men to work alongside women as partners and catalysts for gender-transformative change. It challenges the strong societal and cultural resistance to male involvement as contributors to family health and well-being, and to provide a tool to increase men’s accountability and engagement to influence positive decision making, particularly on health seeking behaviours and utilization of reproductive health services. The overall objective of the Fathers Clubs is to promote men’s equitable and nonviolent involvement as partners in maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) and sexual and reproductive health (SRH). This manual contains a series of interactive and engaging activity-based sessions to be carried out by a well-trained facilitator over several months. The purpose of these sessions is for men—sometimes alone and sometimes with their partners—to reflect on what it means to be a man and a father in the context of MNCH and SRH.

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Organization/author: World Vision Canada

Year: 2023

Language: English, French


Know, Care, Do Theory of Change (learn more)

Components of Engagement:
Know about FP by having factual knowledge about FP in particular, including practical knowledge of services and methods, and SRH more generally.Know Know about FP/SRH by having factual knowledge about FP/SRH services and methods and harmful gender norms and expectations.
Care about FP by assuming responsibility for their personal health and reproduction and accountability for supporting their partners’ reproductive priorities and needs.Care Care about FP/SRH by assuming responsibility for their personal health and reproduction and accountability for supporting their partners’ reproductive priorities and needs.
DoDo 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.