Fostering gender equality and alternatives to violence: perspectives on a gender-transformative community mobilisation programme in rural South Africa

Article

Year

2019

Author/s

Treves-Kagan, S, Maman, S, Khoza, N, MacPhail, C, Peacock, D, Twine, R, Kahn, K, Lippman, SA, and Pettifor, A.

CONTRIBUTING ORGANISATION/PUBLICATION

Cult Health Sex, Volume 22

SUMMARY

The study considers the One Man Can program in South Africa, and assessed why the program had mixed results in terms of increasing ender-equitable behaviours and reducing violence. The results reinforce the importance of addressing facilitators and barriers to change at both individual and community levels.

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