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Do men matter? New horizons in gender and development

By Frances Cleaver, Development and Project Planning Centre, University of Bradford, 2001. Why do men not feature more in gender and development policy? The shift in emphasis from Women in Development (WID) to Gender and Development (GAD), from enumerating and redressing women's disadvantages to analysing the social relationships between men and women, has not led to a recognition within policy of the need to understand the position of women and men. Is there a need for an explicit focus on men in GAD?

http://www.id21.org/static/insights35editorial.htm

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Gender Equity Index 2008

The economic dimension is the next challenge towards global gender equity. More than half the women in the world live in countries that have made no progress towards gender equity in recent years. That is one of the findings of the Gender Equity Index (GEI) 2008 (Social Watch, 2008).

http://www.socialwatch.org/en/avancesyRetrocesos/IEG_2008/tablas/valoresdelIEG2008.htm

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Gender: Not Just Women: Masculinity in a Global Perspective, an Annotated Bibliography

Compiled by Kevin Penzien and Drew Yamanishi While attention to the status of women in developing countries has improved in recent years, the efforts of most major development organizations to improve women's status and access to resources have largely been characterized as an "add women and stir" approach. Because gender relations are a fundamental dynamic of all societal change, pro-women policies directed towards "women's issues" have not been enough to improve the lives of women across the globe. Recently a shift has occurred away from a focus solely on women to an approach centering on gender relations and critical analyses of men and masculinities. This bibliography contains a collection of recent resources that addresses masculinities in the context of international development, including books, journal articles, research monographs and Internet resources. The theoretical, empirical, and political research offered here holds significant policy implications for development efforts aimed at improving the status and well-being of women.

http://www.wid.msu.edu/resources/biblios/Masculinity.htm

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Involving Men to Address Gender Inequities: Three Case Studies (pdf 548 kb)

(USAID DEC) USAID Interagency Gender Working Group, July 2003. Three innovative programs that have engaged men and youth in efforts to improve reproductive health outcomes for both men and women were identified. Salud y Género of Mexico has worked with men in Latin America to reduce genderbased violence and improve men's support for women's reproductive health. The Society for the Integrated Development of the Himalayas (SIDH) in India has focused on education as a means of achieving social justice in its work with young people of both sexes to improve gender equity and reproductive health outcomes. The Stepping Stones program, first developed in Uganda, is a communication, relationships, and life skills training package, which has worked with men and women, including youth, to increase awareness of gender issues to prevent transmission of HIV.

http://www.dec.org/pdf_docs/PNADA507.pdf

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Men and Gender Equality - Electronic Discussion

This electronic discussion list is open to all UNDP staff as well as those from other organisations who wish to participate in an ongoing discussion about men and gender equality issues.

http://www.sdnp.undp.org/gender/programmes/men/men_geneq.html

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Men must be mobilized in struggle for gender equality

(UN News Service) 16 March 2004 - The United Nations Commission on the Status of Women has wrapped up its annual session with broad agreement on the need to involve men in the struggle for gender equality.

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=10096&Cr=commission&Cr1=women

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Men, Masculinities and Gender Relations in Development

This website aims to disseminate papers presented as part of the ESRC funded Seminar Series on 'Men, Masculinities and Gender Relations in Development'. The seminars arose out of a need to explore issues relating to men and masculinities within the context of gender and development. Academics, practitioners and students from a variety of disciplines and regional backgrounds took part in the meetings which reconsidered concepts, frameworks and policies in gender and development, and the potential for incorporating men and masculinities into these. They focused on a number of empirical studies which illuminated gendered relationships and gender based inclusion and exclusion.

http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/dppc/gender/mandmweb/contents.html

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Mobilising Men For Gender Justice During 16 Days of Activism Against Violence Against Women

This article discusses some of the strategies used by the EngenderHealth's Men as Partners Network in South Africa during and beyond the annual 16 Days of No Violence Against Women, an annual event to raise awareness on the issue of violence against women and children. (Kristy Siegfried, February 2005)

http://www.comminit.com/strategicthinking/st2006/thinking-1749.html

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Oxfam: Gender equality and men

Oxfam website section on involving men in gender equality. "To reach a 'tipping point' where gender issues become visible, and therefore important, to the majority of men, it is essential that the benefits of gender equality for men as individuals, and as members of families and communities, should be more widely publicised. Seeing the effects of gender discrimination on people they are close to, be they wives, partners, girlfriends or children; understanding that opportunities to build sustainable livelihoods are enhanced by more flexible gender roles; becoming aware of the stress of existing lifestyles and work patterns on personal health, and its impact on others; feeling the emotional pull of parenting - these are just some of the many triggers that can cause men to re-evaluate their circumstances, and redirect their energy towards support for gender equality." Barbara Stocking, Director Oxfam GB

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/what_we_do/issues/gender/gem/

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PAPAI Institute, Brazil

PAPAI Institute is a non-profitable civil institution in the northwest of Brazil which undertakes social intervention with men of all ages, as well as producing national and international researches on gender and masculinities, since 1997. PAPAI team includes men and women: professionals (graduate and post-graduate scholars) and under-graduate students from Human and Social Sciences, as well as numerous people who cooperate with us directly or indirectly.

http://www.papai.org.br

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Partners in Change: Working with Men to End Gender-Based Violence

The papers in this volume explore the different kinds of partnerships for ending gender-based violence, and men's roles and responsibilities within these. These roles in and responsibilities for change range across the spectrum, from men changing their relationships with their intimate partners to male-dominated institutions changing the way they function in order to better confront issues of gender and violence. Some of the individual, institutional and structural changes that are required are discussed in this volume, as are ways in which men can become partners, with each other and with women, in making these changes. INSTRAW 2002

http://www.un-instraw.org/en/docs/publications/mensroles.pdf

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The AIM Framework: Addressing and Involving Men and Boys To Promote Gender Equality and End Gender Discrimination and Violence

This paper synthesizes lessons from the past two decades of work with men and boys to end gender inequality and men¹s violence, and to promote new models of masculinity and new relations between women and men. It distils seven conceptual tools that can help organizations focus such work so that it is not a drain on resources that could go to women and girls. And it develops a strategic framework for addressing and involving men and boys.

http://www.michaelkaufman.com/articles/index.html

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