South America Archives

Paternar

Paternar is a first of its kind digital and hybrid adaptation of Equimundo’s Program P with a focus on Early Childhood Development and violence prevention (against women

Equimundo’s State of the World’s Fathers 2026

The State of the World’s Fathers is a new study based on online panels of 8,000 parents and caregivers across 16 countries (including 400 in-depth interviews), providing

Equimundo Condemns Police Massacre in Rio de Janeiro

On October 28, Rio de Janeiro’s state police murdered at least 130 men in two of the city’s favelas. Equimundo stands with activists, politicians, the families of

Che Ru (Programa P): Involucrando a padres en Paraguay

Che Ru, Programa P en Paraguay es una adaptación del Programa P. Está diseñado para implementarse en Paraguay.

What will get us past Trump’s anti-democratic wave? What always has

At Equimundo, we recently had the opportunity to host a discussion with Hardy Merriman, an expert in non-violent responses to authoritarianism. We asked Hardy what works to

“This program could give us guidelines, an orientation [on] how we can have a better home:” What participants say about Program P

What do Program P participants – fathers and their partners – say about their experience with the program? Below, we’ve compiled a few quotes from participants in Program P adaptations in Lebanon and Bolivia.

Exploring the Untapped Potential of Digital Fatherhood Engagement Programs

Digital strategies could be a promising modality to engage fathers as they have potential to create change – they are accessible, flexible, low cost, and easy to scale. We need to rethink our evaluation approaches to adequately measure how to measure engagement, success and impact in digital spaces.

Navigating Identity, Feminism, and Masculinities in Latin America: A Portrait of Melissa Wong Oviedo, Senior Program Officer at Equimundo

Tell us a bit about who you are and where you are based. I am Melissa, a Senior Program Officer at Equimundo and I am from Peru,

Women of the World Share Their Visions For the Role of Men in Gender Equity

Equimundo presents WoW Visions: The Role of Men for Gender Equity, a partnership initiative that seeks to listen to and amplify the voices of women speaking on how men can work as allies in promoting gender equity.

Youth Living Peace: Scaling up Support for Adolescents in School

“I have confidence in myself now,” shares a female participant in the Youth Living Peace program in Democratic Republic of the Congo; “I have seen that girls can do a lot of things. Having the facilitators and talking with others girls helped me to choose my goals, to choose my friends better- those who will be good influence for me and my future.”

Manual Programa P Bolivia

Program P (named after padre, the word for father in Spanish) is a gender-transformative, father-focused intervention that encourages male caregivers and their partners to challenge restrictive gender norms, learn new

Announcing GlobalGRACE, a New Project on Global Gender and Cultures of Equality in Brazil

In recent decades, progress has been made toward recognizing and supporting initiatives to advance gender and racial equality, as well as toward addressing other forms of social inequality that intersect with sexism and racism, like class and religious discrimination.