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South Africa has some of the highest rates of gender based violence occurrence in the world. To attain gender equality, it is necessary to work towards eradicating gender based violence. This includes ensuring that the state optimally performs its legal …
The overall aim of the seminar is: To exchange knowledge and information on community mobilisation initiatives from around the world that engage and mobilise women and men for gender equality, health and human rights, analysing critically the emerging approaches, strategies …
Warm greetings from all of us at Sonke Gender Justice. We are writing to invite you to an international meeting on community mobilisation for gender justice, and for health and human rights. Scheduled to take place in either Bushbuckridge, Cape …
Dean Peacock, Executive Director of Sonke, delivers a moving speech at the 15th anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution 1325.
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Through our team of technical expert volunteers, Shirakat began a lengthy process of deliberations and reflection, when we decided in 2010 to register as a formal group. Using our decades of experience of working on social development, women in development, …
In this paper, Ahankari Shashikant and Ahankari Anand from the Halo Medical Foundation detail their organization’s use of community based monitoring (CBM) to strengthen government healthcare systems in rural Osmanabad district in India. The paper evaluates the impact of the combination …
In this paper, Dr. Abhijit Das and Satish Kumar Singh from the Center for Health and Social Justice (CHSJ) in Delhi, India describe lessons learned from implementation of the Samajdar Jodidar project, which mobilized men and boys for social and public accountability …
Gender equality is one of the main health issues in the world, referring to equal opportunities for both men and women to live a healthy life. Unfortunately, this equality does not always arise naturally. Therefore gender transformative interventions are designed …
A comprehensive analysis of the nine-part strategy that makes up the fifth of the development goals set by the UN.
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This paper provides an analysis of the design and implementation, as well as to provide baseline findings, of the One Man Can trial. The One Man Can trial is a cluster randomised controlled trial implemented in the Bushbuckridge area of …
This report provides an overview of all the work done by the MenEngage Africa network under the guidance of Sonke’s International Programmes and Networks (IPN) unit to strengthen and deepen the work done with boys and men to promote gender …
Participants are given a chance to present their own proposals that they have developed over the last two weeks.
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Three more participants write about their experiences of the Women’s Health, Masculinities and Empowerment short course.
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Sonke Gender Justice, the Gender Unit at the Centre for Human Rights University of Pretoria and the Centre for Sexualities, AIDS and Gender at the University of Pretoria are offering a short course exploring the foundations of a human-rights based …
Two participants from our short course being held in Nairobi give us feedback on Wednesday’s session.
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Learn more about course coordinator Josephine Mukwendi.
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Another five participants share what they hope to gain from our short course.
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Impressions from a member of MenEngage’s Tanzanian partner organisation.
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