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The One Man Can model: Community mobilisation as an approach to promote gender equality and reduce HIV vulnerability in South Africa’ EMERGE Story of Change 6
BRIDGE, 2015This story of change pulls out the key findings and recommendations from EMERGE case study 6, which focuses on the One Man Can model in South Africa. One Man Can uses a community mobilisation approach to question gender norms and improve knowledge and practices around sexual and reproductive health.DocumentFemale genital mutilation/cutting: a statistical overview and exploration of the dynamics of change
United Nations Children's Fund, 2013Efforts to address female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) have increased in the past several decades, with support from many local communities, governments, international institutions, non-governmental organisations, as well as religious and other civil society groups.DocumentMen Matter: Scaling up Approaches to Promote Constructive Men's Engagement in Reproductive Health and Gender Equity
Policy Project, Futures Group, Washington, 2008In many countries, men are the primary decision makers regarding sexual activity, childbearing, and contraceptive use.DocumentMen, Health and Gender Equality: A Report on the National Men's Imbizo
BRIDGE, 2007Gender inequalities that privilege men damage women's health, at the same time as the norms associated with masculinity harm men's health. Often being a man is associated with a sense of invulnerability and self-reliance, leading to a reluctance to seek health advice and health care.DocumentPromotion of Human Rights and Gender Equality Related to Sexual and Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS Among Youth in Low-Income Areas of Buenos Aires Suburbs, Argentina
BRIDGE, 2007In contexts of poverty, the sole fact of being young can be a cause of exclusion.DocumentUnequal, unfair, ineffective and inefficient. Gender inequity in health: why it exists and how we can change it.
Women and Gender Equity Knowledge Network, 2007Gender differentials in health related risks and outcomes are partly determined by biological sex differences. Yet they are also the result of how societies socialise women and men into gender roles. For example, in many societies, practices around sexuality sometimes include ritual (and painful) 'deflowering' of brides and sanctioned marital rape.DocumentBRIDGE Bibliography 18: Women and girls living with HIV/AIDS: overview and annotated bibliography
BRIDGE, 2007HIV/AIDS is both driven by and entrenches gender inequality, leaving women more vulnerable than men to its impact. This report - consisting of an overview, annotated bibliography, and contacts section - considers the specific challenges faced by women and girls who are living with HIV and AIDS.DocumentSysteMALEtizing: Resources for Engaging Men in Sexual and Reproductive Health
2006This brochure highlights key resources for working with men and provides a framework for distinguishing among the varied programmes, research and tools that are available. The framework reflects different approaches to such work: men are viewed as ?clients? (focusing on men's own reproductive health needs), as ?partners?DocumentGender and Sexuality Cutting Edge Pack (CEP)
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006Sexuality can bring misery through sexual violence, HIV/AIDS, maternal mortality, female genital mutilation, or marginalisation of those who break the rules, such as non-macho men, single women, widows who re-marry, sex workers, people with same-sex sexualities, and transgender people. Sexuality can also bring joy, affirmation, intimacy and well-being.DocumentBRIDGE Gender and Development in Brief. Issue 18: Sexuality
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2006Sexuality can bring misery through sexual violence, HIV/AIDS, maternal mortality, female genital mutilation, or marginalisation of those who break the rules, such as non-macho men, single women, widows who re-marry, sex workers, people with same-sex sexualities, and transgender people. Sexuality can also bring joy, affirmation, intimacy and well-being.Pages