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Men's Reproductive Health Curriculum
A three-part curriculum designed to provide a broad range of health care workers with the skills and sensitivity needed to work with male clients and provide men's reproductive health services:
Engaging Boys and Men in GBV Prevention and Reproductive Health in Conflict and Emergency-Response Settings: A Workshop Module (CD-ROM)
This curriculum, developed by EngenderHealth and CARE, with support from USAID’s Interagency Gender Working Group (IGWG), is designed to build the skills of participants working to engage boys and men in the prevention of gender-based violence (GBV) and in the promotion of reproductive health (RH) in conflict and other emergency-response settings. The two-day participatory module provides a framework for discussing strategies for male engagement, based on the phases of prevention and response in conflict and displacement. Specific audiences are project managers from nongovernmental organizations, field staff, health sector coordinators, health promoters, donor representatives, local ministry of health representatives, and community liaisons working for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees or other UN agencies. This module is appropriate for staff who have received some training in gender, GBV prevention, and RH. The CD-ROM also contains presentations, resource articles, and reference materials on male engagement and conflict and emergency response.
(2008) English MG-A-18. Also available for download: the complete Workshop Module (PDF, 746kb) and three ZIP archives containing all the supplementary files: Presentations (ZIP, 1.6mb), Resource Articles (ZIP, 2.8mb), and Reference Materials (ZIP, 6.2mb)
Engaging Boys and Men in Gender Transformation: The Group Education Manual
This 11-chapter manual will offer trainers an array of participatory experiential exercises to reach men (and their partners), exploring gender socialization and its impact on HIV prevention and care. Piloted in Ethiopia, Namibia, South Africa and Tanzania, the manual is designed to assist master trainers in developing curricula to work with men and boys on gender, HIV and AIDS issues. After a short background discussing the scientific rationale, chapter topics include: Gender and Power, Sexuality, Men and Health, Substance Use, Healthy Relationships, STI and HIV prevention, Living with HIV, Fatherhood, Violence and Making Change-taking Action.
(2008; developed through the ACQUIRE Project) Available as PDF: English (1.4MB) French (2.0MB)
Engaging Men in HIV and AIDS at the Service Delivery Level: A Manual for Service Providers
Designed for trainers of health workers, this manual offers skills-building sessions on developing more “male-friendly” health services. Utilizing participatory and experiential activities, the manual examines attitudinal and structure barriers that inhibit men from seeking HIV and AIDS services (both from the client and providers perspectives), as well as strategies for overcoming such barriers. The manual is designed for all workers in a health care system, from frontline staff, clinicians, administrative, operational and outreach workers.
(2008; developed through the ACQUIRE Project) Available as a PDF: download (1.7MB)
Engaging Men at the Community Level
This interactive manual offers master trainers approaches for working with community-based health outreach workers and gender activists a means to mobilize community members to take action related to HIV, AIDS and gender. Following a brief section defining male gender norms linkage to negative health outcomes, the manual offers numerous strategies for community engagement for change, such as conducting a needs assessment, conducing marches and rallies, engaging theatre practitioners, among others. Utilizing an ecological model linked to the formation of “community action teams” (CATs), the manual offers strategies to reach various community members for actual and sustain change specific to HIV, AIDS and men.
(2008; developed through the ACQUIRE Project) Available as a PDF: download (696KB)
Men As Partners Digital Stories: India
In India, EngenderHealth partnered with local organizations to adapt the global Men As Partners® (MAP) program, developing community-based, peer-driven interventions with young men and boys. The results were dramatic: men thoughtfully engaged in discussions, role-playing, and games about gender issues. The MAP workshops created real change in participant’s attitudes toward women. Furthermore, as a gender-related HIV awareness and support program, it is the first of its kind in Asia. EngenderHealth India has produced several videos that document the goals, approaches and successes of its MAP work: digital stories, as well as documentaries hosted by Indian entertainment celebrities.
(2007) Available for viewing online.
Men As Partners Digital Stories: South Africa
In July 2005, the Center for Digital Storytelling’s Silence Speaks project traveled to South Africa to conduct two digital storytelling workshops with staff and volunteers from EngenderHealth's MAP Network. Participants in Johannesburg and Cape Town wrote and recorded first-person narratives about their lives; chose photos, still images, video clips, and music to illustrate their stories; and learned to edit these materials into the short digital videos presented here. These digital stories are being shown in trainings and public community screenings throughout South Africa, to promote the MAP Network’s efforts to involve men in ending gender-based violence and preventing HIV and AIDS.
(2005) Available for viewing online.
Involving Men As Partners in Reproductive Health: Lessons Learned from Turkey
Working Paper #12. Describes a series of programmatic initiatives at different institutions in Turkey. These programs have provided counseling and services that correspond to some of the critical reproductive health services for their partners: family planning, abortion, and perinatal care.
(1999) English.
Men As Partners: A Program for Supplementing the Training of Life Skills Educators, 2nd Edition
A manual intended for use by Men As Partners (MAP) educators in facilitating workshops on male involvement in reproductive health. Contains a variety of interactive educational activities on such topics as gender and sexuality, male and female sexual health, HIV and AIDS, and other sexually transmitted infections, relationships, and violence, as well as general resources for facilitators.
(2001) English EQ-0036. Only available in PDF.
Programming for Male Involvement in Reproductive Health: A Practical Guide for Managers
Helpful advice for managers interested in initiating or improving reproductive health services for men. Topics include program design issues, community outreach and workplace programs, counseling, integration of sexually transmitted infection services, and the special needs of adolescents.
(1997) English MG-01; Spanish MG-01S; French MG-01F. Free. Order this publication
Transforming Men Into Clients: Men's Reproductive Health Services in Guinea (PDF, 368 KB)
Compass, 2003, No. 2. Intended broadly for the professional community involved in international public health and development, Compassis a periodic publication featuring snapshots of the results of EngenderHealth's work in the areas of family planning, prevention of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, and maternal care. This issue reports on how men's use of reproductive health services, as well as local approval of and interest in such services, rose notably as a result of intervention by Guinea's Ministry of Health and EngenderHealth.
(2003) English AA-COMP03-2. Free. Order this publication.
Youth-Friendly Services: A Manual for Service Providers
A training manual designed to provide a broad range of health care workers with the skills and sensitivity needed to work with adolescent clients and provide adolescent reproductive health services. Topics include the importance of working with youth, characteristics of youth-friendly services, service provider values about working with youth, gender roles, youth sexual and reproductive health issues, and communicating with youth. An EngenderHealth work in progress.
(2002) English MG-09. Only available as PDF.