Healthier Boyhoods

“She goes with me in my boat”: Child and Adolescent Marriage in Brazil: Executive Summary

Brazil – like the rest of Latin America – has been absent from many global discussions and actions around child and adolescent marriage, which largely focus on

Engaging Men and Boys to End the Practice of Child Marriage

Engaging Men and Boys to End the Practice of Child Marriage explores how unequal gender norms uphold this practice and through program examples identifies the ways men

MenCare in the Public Health Sector in Central America

MenCare partners ECPAT in Guatemala and Puntos de Encuentro and REDMAS in Nicaragua worked within their countries’ existing health systems to promote men’s engagement in active fatherhood

Caring for Equality

Prenatal sex selection—choosing to continue or terminate a pregnancy based on the baby’s sex—is a blatant form of gender-based violence. This manual, developed by World Vision Armenia,

Understanding Young Men and Masculinities in the Balkans: Implications for Health, Development, and Peace

This literature review examines the health behaviors and livelihood challenges faced by young men aged 15 to 25 in Southeastern Europe. It provides an analysis of gender equality,

Transforming gender roles in domestic and caregiving work: preliminary findings from engaging fathers in maternal, newborn, and child health in Rwanda

This article draws on Equimundo and RWAMREC’s programmatic experiences in Rwanda of implementing MenCare+, a gender transformative approach to engaging young and adult men (ages 15–35) in

Sports and the Making of Men: Transforming Gender Norms on the Playing Field

This MenEngage-UNFPA advocacy brief explores ideas on how to transform sport – an important part of the lives of most boys and many men – to encourage gender equitable

Program HMD: A Toolkit for Action

This toolkit presents the short version of the approach contained in Programs H and M. It seeks to make the model accessible so that an increasing number

Boys and Education in the Global South: Emerging Vulnerabilities and New Opportunities for Promoting Changes in Gender Norms

This article presents a review of global data on boys’ education in the Global South and recent findings on the influence of boys’ educational a!ainment on their

Men who Care: A Multi-Country Qualitative Study of Men in Non-Traditional Caregiving Roles

The study presents the results of life history interviews with more than 80 men in 5 countries — all carrying out caregiving in the home or as

The Young Men Initiative – A Case Study

The Young Men Initiative (YMI) is a promising, evidence-based strategy for engaging young men throughout the Western Balkans in the promotion of gender equality and the prevention

Program M: Working with Young Women

The Program M manual includes more than 30 activities to carry out group work with young women (ages 15 to 24) on gender identity, relationships, sexuality, reproductive

Once Upon a Girl

Boys play football.  Girls play with dolls.  Boys should be tough.  Girls should be sweet and always look nice. Once upon a girls tells the story of

Program H: Working with Young Men

The Program H manual includes approximately 70 activities to carry out group work with young men (ages 15 to 24) on gender, sexuality, reproductive health, fatherhood and