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Male Engagement is Advancing Women Empowerment - Kenya

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I look foward to learning more from the participants of the #SBCCSummit in Indonesia in April 2018. I will also be showcasing a poster presentation of how male engagement is advancing women empowerment in Kenya and how it is important to ensure the social and cultural communication practices are used to promote the empwerment of women.

What Works? Shifting Norms; Changing Behaviours; Amplifying Voice - The SBCC Summit

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Submitted by umzingan on Tue, 02/20/2018 - 12:44 Permalink

Dear Joan

"Male Engagement is Advancing Women Empowerment",  this is a good initiative that could solve a lot of social, cultural and traditional /patriarchal related problems. We can not ignore the existing fact that most if not 80% of the states are patriarchal in nature. In most countries where HIV and AIDS incidence and prevalence is high are male dominated.  Men have the power to contain and or spread the virus if they want to, they have the ability to debate and pass most of the policies or laws (at international, national, provincial or even at district down to a household level). 

Living men out out the HIV race is detrimental to our societies.  Leaving No One Behind should be the motto of the century.  Major donors have tried to introduce programs that segregated and left men and boys in the HIV programming and in the fight of the epidemic.  instill hostility to women.  We need to move together men, women, boys and girls let us not create divisions amongst the sexes as this has proved to be advancing hatred and spread of HIV (those with and those without knowledge on HIV prevention).

Umzingwane has developed the model that recognizes and takes on board all community and influential leaders from village to provincial level (TPRB model).  Recognizing Traditional, Political, Religious & Business leaders including some influential individuals at community level such as traditional healers (both males and females).

This approach has worked for our organization in the Umzingwane district in Matabeleland South province of Zimbabwe (where HIV and AIDS prevalence is highest in the country).  Chiefs, politicians and church leaders meet, discuss contemporary problems and come up with possible solutions that they sell to their subjects, followers or supporters when they meet at their different fora.  Leaders will speak in one voice whether in churches or at community level... with this women and girls who are said to be vulnerable have been saved from the perpetrators of harmful practices. 

Women and girl are now able to freely speak as they know their rights which are also being supported by all leaders in the community

Peter Mkandla

Warm Regards

UAN;-the key contributor to an AIDS Free Generation and Gender Neutral Society".  UAN envisions an empowered community that effectively responds to HIV & AIDS, other local challenges that influence the spread of HIV