Working
with Young Men
Author: Instituto PROMUNDO
Date: 2002
Publisher: Instituto PROMUNDO
Short
Summary: Young men need to reflect about how traditional
and negative male behaviours affect their own lives and how they
can construct alternative ways of interacting in their intimate
relationships. In co-operation with partners, Instituto PROMUNDO
developed this set of training manuals on ‘sexual and reproductive
health’, ‘mental health’, ‘violence prevention’, ‘fatherhood and
caregiving’ and ‘HIV/AIDS’. These manuals outline group activities
for community interventions, for example, discussions of male ‘honour’,
role-plays in which young men act out coercive and non-coercive
relationships and discussions about condom negotiation. An accompanying
video ´Once upon a Boy’ complements the manuals and recounts the
story of a boy who is faced with all of the issues dealt with in
the manuals and who tries to break-free of stereotypical male behaviour.
To order email: promundo@promundo.org.br or visit www.promundo.org.br/ingles/principalpublic.html.
See In Brief for more information about their work. Also available
in Portuguese and Spanish
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