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Date Added to Site: 25th April 2008 |
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How can Donors Contribute Towards Increased Male Engagement in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Including HIV
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Dover, P. |
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October 2007 |
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How can bilateral donors support work with men for gender equality and help move the 'masculinities agenda' forward? An important place for donors to start, argues this paper, is with their own professional and personal lives. Do our workplaces have an open environment in which all voices can be heard? Are men who push gender issues seen as wimps? Do we make room for discussing difficult questions on new gender roles? Good practice might involve institutionalising flexible working hours to allow parents to share child care duties, as is the case within the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida). Another important step is for donors to initiate discussions on how to promote men's engagement in gender equality in their gender dialogues with other development cooperation partners and with partner countries. Given the breadth of the masculinities and gender equality agenda, it is also necessary to prioritise specific issues and find entry points at global, regional and national levels, in order to ensure that good intentions are translated into practice. We also need to think about results and indicators - both short term and strategic. At the moment we have various pilot projects that show short term attitude change. What are the enabling factors that create long term change? Who is getting things right and how and why?
This paper was written for an international symposium on 'Politicising Masculinities', organised by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS). The symposium took place in October 2007 in Dakar, Senegal.
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