Resource Type:
Training Guide
Region/Country:
Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Armenia
Primary Audience:
Healthcare Providers/Staff
Technical Area:
Service Delivery, Maternal and Child Health, Sexual and Reproductive Health, Gender-based Violence, Family Planning
SBC Approach:
Provider Behavior Change, Gender-transformative
Training Package for Healthcare Professionals on Engaging Men in Prenatal Care
This training package was created to help healthcare professionals engage with men during pregnancy and childbirth and to promote active fatherhood. Accompanied by slides for use in presentations and including prenatal visit practice with role playing exercises, the package can help health providers better engage with fathers. It also provides health professionals with a module on gender-based violence, including a scenario with a pregnant survivor of violence.
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Organization/author: UNFPA
Year: 2021Language: 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.
, Client/UserAs clients or users of FP/SRH services with unique priorities, needs, and preferences that should be met by programs.
