Ethiopia

Act With Her

Supports both very young and older adolescent girls and boys in Ethiopia and Jordan in a ‘safe spaces’ program designed to provide them with the diverse range of knowledge, life skills, and networks of peers and adult allies that they need to thrive.

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Bosnia and Herzegovina

Young Men’s Initiative (YMI)

The project aims to build more gender-equitable, healthy, and non-violent lifestyles among youth across this post-conflict region. YMI uses social media campaigns and a school-based curriculum (adapted from Promundo’s “Program H” model) to help young men between the ages of 13 and 19 deconstruct masculinity and reflect on how unhealthy gender norms lead to the inequitable treatment of women and girls.

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India

PRACHAR (Promoting Change in Reproductive Behavior of Adolescents)

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Yuvaa (Youth voices for agency and access)

Aims to improve access to contraceptive choices and positively shift gender and social norms by delivering customized family planning messages to young married couples using social entrepreneurship and innovative communication approaches.

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The YP Foundation

Delivers pleasure-affirming, rights-based and youth centric Comprehensive Sexuality Education. The Know your body know your rights program provides CSE.

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Tackling the Taboo

This report covers several programs that work towards ending child marriage. Details on page 11 of the report.

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Croatia

Young Men’s Initiative (YMI)

The project aims to build more gender-equitable, healthy, and non-violent lifestyles among youth across this post-conflict region. YMI uses social media campaigns and a school-based curriculum (adapted from Promundo’s “Program H” model) to help young men between the ages of 13 and 19 deconstruct masculinity and reflect on how unhealthy gender norms lead to the inequitable treatment of women and girls.

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Serbia

Young Men’s Initiative (YMI)

The project aims to build more gender-equitable, healthy, and non-violent lifestyles among youth across this post-conflict region. YMI uses social media campaigns and a school-based curriculum (adapted from Promundo’s “Program H” model) to help young men between the ages of 13 and 19 deconstruct masculinity and reflect on how unhealthy gender norms lead to the inequitable treatment of women and girls.

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Burkina Faso

(Re)solve project

This project was designed to address contraceptive misperceptions and increase girls’ perceptions of their pregnancy risk, primarily through a participatory game and health passport aimed at easing health facility access.

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Jordan

Act With Her

Supports both very young and older adolescent girls and boys in Ethiopia and Jordan in a ‘safe spaces’ program designed to provide them with the diverse range of knowledge, life skills, and networks of peers and adult allies that they need to thrive.

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Indonesia

SETARA (SEmangaT duniA RemajA / Teen’s aspirations)

This project was a comprehensive sexuality education intervention in schools across three sites in Indonesia.

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Kenya

Trust for Indigenous Culture and Health (TICAH) Our bodies our choices

This project is an SRHR program that uses different curricula for different participant groups in Kenya including men, women, and trans and gender non-conforming individuals, women living with HIV, etc. For younger participants the program offers more basic sexuality education content.

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The Get Up Speak Out (GUSO) programme

This programme focuses on young people’s access to and utilization of comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights education and services, as well as on improving and creating a supportive environment for their sexual and reproductive health and rights. GUSO is implemented in seven countries in Africa and Asia; Kenya is one of those countries, where the programme is implemented by the Kenya SRHR Alliance. This includes health care worker training.

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Tackling the Taboo

This report covers several programs that work towards ending child marriage. Details on page 11 of the report.

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Malawi

Male Motivators

The Male Motivators approach was developed by Save the Children and first used in Malawi with men and adolescent girls in cross-generational marriages. The approach engages men to break down gender norms, leading to improved male-initiated couples communication about family planning.

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Mozambique

IMPACTO (Supporting family planning and abortion access)

This programme supports adolescent girls and women in Mozambique to make SRHR decisions, foster girls’ and women’s bodily autonomy and integrity and improve access to rights-based, gender-sensitive SRHR services.

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Niger

Reaching Married Adolescents (RMA)

This project included interventions to increase the uptake of family planning among married adolescent girls, and included their husbands.

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Nigeria

International Centre for Sexual Reproductive Rights (INCRESE)

INCRESE has been working in Nigeria to create a political, social, and cultural environment that is conducive to expanded access to sexual and reproductive health and rights.

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Ghana

Tackling the Taboo

This report covers several programs that work towards ending child marriage. Details on page 11 of the report.

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Republic of Congo

Tackling the Taboo

This report covers several programs that work towards ending child marriage. Details on page 11 of the report.

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Pakistan

Tackling the Taboo

This report covers several programs that work towards ending child marriage. Details on page 11 of the report.

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Guatemala

Tackling the Taboo

This report covers several programs that work towards ending child marriage. Details on page 11 of the report.

Find out more here.

Rwanda

Bandebereho

Bandebereho (‘role model’ in Kinyarwanda) is a fatherhood and couples’ intervention in Rwanda designed to transform gender norms around masculinity and fatherhood and to increase male engagement in reproductive health, equal caregiving, and violence prevention. Critical reflection and dialogue introduce positive role modelling for fathers and male partners and promote new attitudes, behaviours, and skills at the individual and relationship levels.

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Indashyikirwa (Agents of change)

This project is designed to reduce levels of intimate partner violence, as well as to improve the response to survivors. The programme shifts attitudes and behaviors at the individual and relationship levels, and to transform wider social norms that tolerate violence and underpin inequalities between men and women.

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Sierra Leone

The “Engaging Men Through Accountable Practice” (EMAP), To Prevent Violence Against Women and Girls”

EMAP was implemented for three years in three districts of the eastern region of Sierra Leone. The initiative aimed to prevent and end harmful attitudes, behaviours and social norms that can contribute to violence against women and girls.

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South Africa

Stepping Stones and creating futures

Stepping Stones and Creating Futures aimed to decrease the rate of intimate partner violence in urban informal settlements in South Africa.

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One Man Can

The OMC campaign encourages men to become actively involved in advocating for gender equality, preventing GBV, and responding to HIV/AIDS.

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Tanzania

UZIKWASA

UZIKWASA is a behaviour change focussed NGO that combines multiple modalities to develop leadership skills amongst target populations. This includes a focus on preventing GBV.

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Kuwa Mfano wa Kuigwa (Be a role model)

This project was aimed at increasing men’s positive involvement in preventing the spread of HIV in Tanzania. It included a 6 month national social and behaviour change communication campaign, which was designed to reduce societal acceptance of intimate partner violence using mass media strategies combined with community engagement and interpersonal interventions.

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Timor-Leste

KOKOSA!

This project is a violence prevention program that encourages community members to define problems and identify solutions in relationships.

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Uganda

Responsible Engaged and Loving Fathers (REAL)

The REAL Fathers initiative is a community-based mentoring program that capitalises on the key period of transition when young men become fathers to prevent intimate partner violence and harsh discipline of young children. The initiative was piloted and scaled up in post-conflict Uganda and evaluated under the Passages Project, as well adapted for a new setting in West Bengal, India, with partner Child in Need Institute.

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United Kingdom

If I were Jack

If I were Jack is a comprehensive sexuality education program designed to engage boys and address masculinities especially in relation to the topic of avoiding an unintended adolescent pregnancy.

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United States of America

Wise Guyz

Wise Guyz is a health relationship, life skills program for male-identified individuals in grade 9. It is designed to promote healthy relationships and prevent adolescent dating violence.

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Many Ways of Being

Equimundo previously worked to create and evaluate a curriculum for young men called Manhood 2.0. Manhood 2.0 encourages adolescent and young adult males, ages 16 to 22, to discuss gender norms, masculinity, and fatherhood as a gateway to a broader discussion about contraceptive use, violence, and teen pregnancy prevention. This curriculum was then adapted to create a similar program for young women called Sisterhood 2.0. These approaches were then combined into the Many Ways of Being Program.

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Reducing Sexism and Violence Program (RSVP)

RSVP incorporates multiple interactive learning opportunities: physical activity, peer-to-peer dialogue, sharing, role play, animated film clips, and group discussions. The program engages participants in learning about and discussing interpersonal biases, gender stereotypes, gender-based violence, and upstander intervention.

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Zimbabwe

Changing the river’s flow

This project seeks to transform gender roles and to promote more gender-equitable relationships between young men and young women; and to reduce HIV and gender-based violence (GBV), teen pregnancies and barriers to accessing sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) among young people) aged 10 – 24 years of age in Zimbabwe by 2017.

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