MenEngage, a global alliance of organizations working with men and boys for gender equality is organizing the Second Global Symposium on working with Men and Boys in Delhi in November 2014. This Symposium will bring together researchers and practitioners, advocates and activists, government representatives and the donor community to share experiences, evidence and insights and seek directions on how men and boys can creatively contribute to gender equality, the new development paradigm beyond the MDG framework, and towards the broader vision of social justice.
2. India
Habitat Centre
New Delhi
November
10-13
The Symposium aims to
engage men and boys for
gender equality so that society
becomes more caring and non-
violent and gender relations
become more harmonious,
equitable and people lead fuller
and richer lives.
3. Photo Credit: Anne-Mette Jensen
The cultures we live in today
are full of stereotyped and
outdated rules and norms
about men and women.
Join us as we go through a
process of unlearning and
understanding how men
behave.
4. We aim for: Share knowledge and practices
on working with men on gender issues
Discuss partnership with women’s
rights work and other social justice work
Develop positions on need to work
with men and boys
Mobilise men and boys in across the
globe on understanding men’s roles in
gender based violence
Channel collective energies in creating
and sustaining the momentum for change
for the next 5 years
Collective
energy
Partnership Knowledge
5. Multiple themes for
engagement Health and wellbeing
Poverty and work
Care relationships and
emotions
Sexualities & identities
Peace building, social
justice & inclusion
Violence
Making of men
6. Health and wellbeing
Exploring research and action into
understanding and addressing men in
different health related domains, including
women and men’s wellbeing.
Making of men
Exploring the different ways in which boys
are socialised into men and the multiple
influences, both traditional and modern,
on this process.
Poverty and work
Examine the intersection of changes in
work and employment on men’s self
concept, relationships with women and
with other men and their actions.
7. Care relationships and
emotions
Looking at new research, policy
approaches and activism that seeks to
increase men’s and boys’ care-giving,
caring and emotional connections, both
for gender equality, but also with benefits
for children’s wellbeing and men’s own
health and wellbeing, as well as societal
benefits.
Sexualities & identities
Exploring the diversities that exist in the
world of men and masculinities and how a
better understanding of these diversities
may lead to changes in gender power
relations and greater social inclusion and
solidarity.
8. Peace building, social
justice & inclusion
This theme is intended to explore how
such efforts address masculinism and
patriarchy and create opportunities for
social solidarity and emancipatory praxis
in the context of globalization.
Violence
This theme is aimed at understanding
how violence-prone masculine identities
are manifested, constructed and
disseminated, the role of institutional
structures and allied practices, as well as
possibilities of reforming and projecting
non-violent models of masculinity.
10. MenEngage
MenEngage is an alliance of NGOs
working together with men and boys
to promote gender sensitization.
Our members advocate around a
number of key issues where gender
directly affects the lives of women
and men.
CHSJ
Centre For Health and Social Justice
strenghtens the claims of citizens’
health rights promised in the
Constitution and through international
human rights treaties.
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11. The journey
Beijing
Engaging men
United Nations
4th World Conference on
Women.
1995 2009 2014
Rio
Scaling up
Held under aegis of
MenEngage and condemned
culture of violence
across genders.
Delhi
Universalizing the process
2nd MenEngage global
Symposium - men and boys
for gender justice.
12. Key Takeaways Universalize the gender
empowerment
process by engaging diverse
stakeholders
Strengthen dialogue with hard-to-
reach communities & extended the
outreach amongst the youth
Support local legislative bodies to
promote gender in public spaces
Promote gender sensitivity in the
media and the private sector
