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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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State of the World's Fathers: Balkan review
This report contains a review of regional policies and practices in the Balkan region which recognize the actual shift in contextualization of gender issues as exclusively women issues. This means that gender issues are also now being considered men issue
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Progress Towards Prohibiting all Corporal Punishment of Children in East and Southern Africa
This briefing highlights the human rights imperative to prohibit all violent punishment of children in all East and Southern African states. It summarises progress so far towards prohibition in each state and what remains to be done. Aiming to promote nat
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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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Being a Father: A State of the World’s Fathers Film
This film follows fathers, mothers, and children from around the world, asking: "What does fatherhood mean to you?" It was produced alongside the launch of "State of the World's Fathers 2015", the first report ever to provide a global view of the state of
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MenCare in the Public Health Sector in Central America: Engaging health providers to reach men for gender equality in maternal, sexual, and reproductive health
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 and maternal, newborn, and child health. In both countries, the wor
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A MenCare Fathers' Group Manual for Sri Lanka
This manual contains group education modules intended for fathers and their partners, more often spouses, in the plantation region (tea estates) of Sri Lanka. The purpose is to promote gender equality within the home and children’s healthy development and
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A More Equal Future: A MenCare manual to engage fathers to prevent child marriage in India
This manual was developed in response to strong societal and cultural resistance that supports the continuation of child marriage in the communities where World Vision works. In collaboration with Promundo, this tool has been created to engage men as fath
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Programs for men who have used violence against women: Recommendations for Action and Caution
This briefing, prepared in collaboration with MenEngage, Promundo, Rutgers WPF and MenCare+, explores how programs for men who have used intimate partner violence (IPV) can be part of comprehensive approaches to ending IPV, but that these must be implemen
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Sri Lanka: Engaging Fathers for Children's Education and Family Well-being
This publication briefly presents research, workshops (MenCare groups), and analysis conducted by World Vision, Promundo, and MenCare on engaging fathers in Sri Lanka. This study finds that working with men as fathers is a key entry point to discussing se
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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