The United Nations Secretary-General's UNiTE campaign has launched a T-Shirt Design Competition and are inviting young men ages 18 – 25 years old to use their imagination to prevent and end all forms of violence against women and girls and embody the concepts of equality, non-discrimination and respect in their designs.
The Regional Learning Community (RLC) for Transforming Masculinities to Promote Gender Justice calls for applications from organisations and individuals in East and Southeast Asia committed to gender justice promotion and/or gender-based violence prevention to participate in a workshop to build critical consciousness, critical thinking capacity, knowledge and analytical capacity on Foundational Knowledge surrounding gender and power relations, gender justice and masculinities. The workshop will be held in Vientiane, Laos, from 24 – 27 October 2011.
Partners for Prevention is accepting applications from practitioners from the Asia-Pacific region to participate in a regional workshop aiming at building practical skills for those implementing, planning or considering primary prevention projects/programmes. The workshop will also be an opportunity to network and share experiences from projects and initiatives focused on primary prevention of gender-based violence from the Asia and Pacific region.
Gender experts believe that education on violence prevention in Viet Nam should begin in schools but the subject was not in the curriculum and the topic was unfamiliar to most teachers.
"School-based violence prevention is very important, to teach young people before they get in a relationship or start to learn to use violence against each other," said Partners for Prevention Programme co-ordinator James Lang.
A quantitative survey aimed at deepening understanding of men’s attitudes and behaviours regarding VAW and its prevention has recently been completed in one urban and one rural site in China.
The survey findings will help inform future policy and programmes, and potentially serve as a baseline to monitor campaigns and initiatives to address men and boys’ attitudes and behaviours towards masculinity, gender equality, sexuality and VAW.
Must Bol is a call to young people to examine violence in their lives and speak out against it. The campaign is targeting youth in Delhi who are active and potential social media users, and uses creative media to generate thought-provoking discussions on gender and violence. The campaign has taken up issues of relevance to the inner circle of young people’s lives - self, body, family, peers, intimate relationships and workplace.
In East and Southeast Asia (ESEA), practitioners who are working toward gender justice are building a new capacity development initiative called the Regional Learning Community. This regional initiative seeks to develop a collective approach to knowledge creation and skills building for the primary prevention of violence against women (VAW) and the promotion of gender justice in the region.
A group of young NGO activists from South Asia recently took part in an 18-day study programme in Nepal aimed at developing understanding on the political, social and cultural aspects of masculinities in relation to gender justice. The study programme was conducted by the South Asian Network to Address Masculinities (SANAM), with support from Partners for Prevention, and is part of SANAM’s Capacity Development Initiative in South Asia project.
Partners for Prevention is supporting a practitioners’ Learning Community in East and SE Asia. The Learning Community aims to share knowledge across the region to promote gender justice and end violence against women. The Learning Community will collectively design a regional curriculum and implement trainings and will take a critical approach to both knowledge creation and leadership training. Please see the one page description at:
http://partners4prevention.org/files/documents/one_pager_-_rlc_esea_20_j...
From the 23rd – 25th of March 2011, Partners for Prevention hosted the 2nd Asia-Pacific Regional Research Meeting for the Gender-based Violence Prevention and Masculinities Research Project in Bangkok. Thirty participants from Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Vietnam, representing research institutes, civil society, government, UN partners as well as members of the project’s Regional Steering Committee and Technical Advisory Group took part in three days of active discussion and planning.
