Equimundo works to achieve gender equality and social justice by transforming intergenerational patterns of harm and promoting patterns of care, empathy and accountability among boys and men throughout their lives. We do this in three areas of work.
Healthy Boyhoods
Promoting environments that support boys and young men to live out diverse, equitable and healthy masculinities.
Connectedness and allyship
Working to foster healthy, social interactions both online and offline to support men to see their stake in gender equality and to promote better mental health and reduce social isolation among young men.
In partnership with women’s rights and social justice movements, Equimundo’s work aims to influence those key institutions in our societies that shape and are shaped by inequitable norms of masculinity and gender inequality.
Governments
Building the evidence for effective laws and policies that support and promote gender equality.
Corporate Brands and Workplaces
Developing research-based solutions for workplace innovation, growth, marketing campaigns and employee satisfaction by engaging men as part of the solution for equitable, violence-free workplaces.
Schools & Educational Institutions
Strengthening the capacity and skills of education, social services, and childcare providers to support parents to practice nurturing care, equitable gender socialization, non-violent communication, and child-rearing.
Health Systems
Leveraging our research and practice based knowledge in order to improve policies and build the skills of healthcare providers to foster men’s involvement in caregiving, while always keeping central women’s agency and autonomy, and uplifting men’s own health-seeking.
Media & News
Advocating for the representation of healthy masculinities in popular media.
Individuals, Couples and Families
Creating, testing, evaluating and scaling up gender transformative methodologies for key moments in a man’s life (childhood, adolescence, and parenthood) that can be applied in diverse environments where individuals lead their lives.
Equimundo aims to achieve our mission working with our partners through three overlapping approaches: Research, Programs, and Advocacy.
Research
Conducting research with a focus on measuring attitudes, practices, power dynamics and norms related to masculinities to inform local, national, and international policies and programs.
Advocacy
Carrying out global- and national-level advocacy campaigns that achieve measurable and substantial changes in policies, institutional practices and social norms to engaging men and boys in gender equality and healthy masculinities.
