Lesson Plan: Online Messages on Manhood
This interactive lesson plan helps middle school youth (ages 12–14) explore the impact of online messages on their understanding of masculinity and manhood. Through engaging vocabulary activities,
Youth Power Toolkit: A Guide For Facilitating and Promoting Gender Equality
Co-created with and for youth, this manual contains everything you need to facilitate peer-to-peer processes in communities and schools that challenge harmful gender norms and promote relationships
State of American Men 2025
The State of American Men 2025 study offers an unflinching, data-driven look at the economic and cultural pressures facing American men.
Men and Gender Equality in Africa
In Africa, women have made gains toward gender equality. Women have become increasingly visible in politics, such as in Rwanda, which has the world’s highest percentage of
Mainstreaming Male Allyship: An Action Guide for Business
Mainstreaming Male Allyship: An Action Guide for Business is an innovative e-learning course developed by Equimundo in partnership with the UN Global Compact. Designed for leaders, HR professionals, supervisors, and employee resource groups, the course equips businesses with the tools to launch or strengthen male allyship initiatives in the workplace.
Healthy Families, Strong Communities in Kurdistan
Equimundo and SEED Foundation jointly conducted formative research, and developed two curricula that have been adapted for the context of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq aiming to create more equitable outcomes for women and men in violence prevention and healthy relationships.
Boys and Sexuality in the Internet Age
Comprehensive sexuality education is still the exception rather than the norm in schools globally. Young people and children are looking to digital spaces to find information and greater understanding about the world around them, including about sex and sexuality, specifically through consumption of online pornography.
The men behind the curtain: How organized anti-feminist backlash actors exploit boys and what to do about it
The concept of “anti-feminist backlash” has become increasingly prominent in the discourse on international gender equality. The term variously refers to everything from individual dissent to organized political resistance against the real or imagined advancements of women, girls, and feminist movements. At its core, the notion of backlash presupposes a landscape where significant strides toward equality for women and girls have been made, prompting a reactive effort by those who disagree with and/or perceive themselves as disenfranchised by these shifts.
Boys and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR)
From the earliest stages of learning about their bodies, identities, attractions, reproductive choices, and desires for relationships, boys need information, services, and support – in order to support themselves and others around them.
The Manosphere, Rewired
When two-thirds of young men feel that “no one really knows” them, as State of American Men 2023 shows, they reveal the fragility of their connections and relationships. This “crisis of connection” collides with the reality that no one really seems to agree on what a “good man” looks like or how to become one. The combination of these two truths creates the perfect conditions for men to seek connection in the digital world via the manosphere – a diverse collection of websites, blogs, and online forums promoting masculinity, misogyny, and opposition to feminism – which swoops in to provide clear messages around gender and gender roles to make simple sense of an otherwise complicated world.
The Care Burden Affects Us All: Assessing men’s stake as caregivers in the United States
Care work is in and of itself valuable and important, and it is also a critical part of our economy—it allows for labor participation and economic production—yet is too often underpaid and undervalued in this country. Data show that more than 80% of men believe that unpaid care work at home is as valuable as paid work, valuable to society, and that men and women should share care responsibilities equally.
Step by Step: Navigating Boyhood in Sub-Saharan Africa
Childhood and early adolescence are key periods where ideas about gender equality can become ingrained, as individuals of all gender identities form attitudes, opinions and beliefs –
Parenting Programs to Reduce Violence Against Children and Women
This series of parenting programs briefs was developed by UNICEF, The Prevention Collaborative, and Equimundo to support parenting practitioners to integrate the prevention of violence against children and women and gender equality promotion within parenting programs.
Creating Peace
Engaging young people in peer dialogue, critical thinking, and activism, this program aims to address inequitable gender norms, promote racial justice, and ultimately reduce violence and discrimination in communities in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Promoting Positive Parenting and Strengthening Active Father’s Involvement in Early Childhood Development
Program Abb (meaning father in Arabic) is a first-of-its-kind initiative aimed at encouraging fathers to play an active role in caring for their young children.
Writing with care about men and boys, family and caregiving
This tip sheet provides recommendations for television writers and content creators on how to play a role in creating a gender equal, nonviolent future – and how
Long-term impacts of the Bandebereho program on violence against women and children, maternal health-seeking, and couple relations in Rwanda
Programs that work with parents to build couple relationship and parenting skills and include critical reflection on gender norms are a promising approach for reducing violence against
Living Peace Institute: Brief
The Living Peace Institute (LPI) is a Congolese non-profit organization dedicated to promoting mental and psychosocial health of people in conflict areas to restore peace and stability. It was born out of research from the International Men and Gender Survey (IMAGES) and grounded in evidence-based research on breaking cycles of violence.
Program P: Program Summary
Program P is a gender-transformative intervention targeting parents (future or current parents of children aged 0-5 years). It is designed to encourage participants and community members to challenge harmful social beliefs and norms around gender power and roles. Program P was created by Equimundo along with Cultura Salud/EME and REDMAS as part of the MenCare campaign.
Promoting Men and Boys’ Engagement in Ending Female Genital Mutilation in MENA
Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a violation of human rights. Every girl and woman has the right to be protected from this harmful practice, a manifestation of
Engaging Men for Gender Equality in the Workplace Manual
The Engaging Men for Gender Equality in the Workplace training manual engages employees (men and women) in dynamic group activities and discussions, as well as individual reflections, to promote equitable, respectful, and collaborative corporate cultures. The manual highlights the ways gender norms and inequalities lead to disparities in rights, workforce opportunities, and access to resources for both women and men. Topics include: gender basics; gender roles and norms; gendered divisions of work; power; gender-based violence; sexual exploitation, abuse, and harassment; male allyship; and interpersonal communication skills.
Core Elements of Gender Transformative Fatherhood Programs to Promote Care Equality and Prevent Violence
Program P (“P” for the words for father in Portuguese, pai, and Spanish, padre) was developed in 2011 specifically to promote men’s positive involvement as fathers in maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) and in caring for their children. Since then, it has been adapted in close to 30 countries by a wide array of partner organizations, ranging from small community-based organizations to large multilateral development organizations and governments, often in partnership with Equimundo.
State of the World’s Fathers 2023
The State of the World’s Fathers 2023 (SOWF 2023) report reveals that thousands of women and men across the world are calling for care to be central to their lives, which can only be addressed by a fundamental overhaul of power structures, policies, and social norms around both paid and unpaid care work.
Many Ways of Being Sex Education Curriculum / Muchas Formas de Ser Educación Sexual Plan de Estudios
Many Ways of Being is a sex education program for young people of all gender identities, ages 15 to 19, aiming to promote healthy, consensual, and violence-free relationships among youth while reducing the incidence of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and unplanned pregnancy.
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