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Unlocking the Power of Men's Care: State of the World's Fathers 2019
The third State of the World’s Fathers report reveals new research on men’s caregiving from 11 countries, with additional cross-country analysis of data from over 30 countries. It calls for men’s uptake of their full share of the world’s childcare and d
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Time for Action: State of the world's fathers 2017
The second State of the World’s Fathers report, 2017 Time for Action, focuses on the actions needed to make progress towards fathers’ equal participation in unpaid care work. At the current rate of progress, it will take 75 years to achieve global equalit
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Adolescent Boys and Young Men: Engaging them as supporters of gender equality and health and understanding their vulnerabilities
Produced by UNFPA and Promundo, this report highlights the importance of engaging adolescent boys and young men in sexual and reproductive health and rights and in gender equality. It reviews current research on boys’ and young men’s specific risks and re
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A Good Start: Advances in early childhood development. Early Childhood Matters
Celebrating nearly 50 years of operations, the Bernard van Leer Foundation publishes this issue of Early Childhood Matters as a reflection on the advances made over those past five decades on early education care and development. The first half of this is
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"This Isn't the Life for You": Masculinities and nonviolence in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Low-income, young, black men are overwhelmingly affected by various forms of violence in Rio de Janeiro. This research report, published by Promundo, examines the often under-researched relationship between this violence and gender norms. In particular, t
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State of the World's Fathers 2015- Child rights perspective
This report is based on the State of the World’s Fathers report, which captures data, policies, programmes, and research related to boys and men’s participation in caregiving and fatherhood, maternal, new-born, and child health, and violence prevention. T
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State of the World's Fathers 2015
Approximately 80 percent of men will become biological fathers at some point in their lives, and virtually all men have some connection to children – as relatives, as teachers, as coaches, or simply as community members. Whether they are biological father
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State of Africa's Fathers 2015
This report is an adaptation of the global State of the World's Fathers report, which was produced by MenCare, a global campaign to promote men and boys’ involvement as equitable, non-violent caregivers. This regional report focuses on men’s caregiving pr
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Men, Gender Equality and Gender Relations in Mali: Findings from the International Men and Gender Equality Survey
Care Mali and Promundo have launched a research study on men, gender equality and gender relations in Mali, in collaboration with UN Women and the National Institute for Statistics (INSTAT). This report provides a summary of key findings using the Interna
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Hidden Violence: Preventing and responding to sexual exploitation and sexual abuse of adolescent boys: a briefing paper by MenCare
This document summarizes results from the report Hidden Violence: Preventing and responding to sexual exploitation and sexual abuse of adolescent boys, Case Studies and Directions for Action, which was prepared by Promundo for the Oak Foundation. This doc
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Fatherhood: Parenting programmes and policy- A critical review of Best Practice, Executive Summary
This publication presents an overview of policies and programmes that promote or facilitate the involvement of fathers and father-figures from the pre-natal period through the first eight years of their children’s lives. Among the conclusions drawn from t
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Hidden Violence: Preventing and responding to sexual exploitation and sexual abuse of adolescent boys: Case Studies and Directions for Action
This document provides a literature review on the issue of sexual exploitation of adolescent boys. National-level surveys have shown that boys experience sexual violence and sexual exploitation at rates lower than girls – but at rates that deserve greater