International
Learning Centres Initiative
The Learning Centre Initiative aims to highlight the good practice of Reproductive Health Uganda (based in Hoima) and the Planned Parenthood Association of Zambia (based in Choma) in working with men and boys on sexual and reproductive health.
MenEngage Africa
MenEngage is a global alliance of organizations who engage men and boys to achieve gender equality, promote health, reduce violence and to question and address the structural barriers to achieving gender equality.
The global alliance consists of representatives from each continent. These delegates in turn co-ordinate the country networks on their respective continents. Sonke chairs MenEngage Africa, which consists of 12 country networks across Africa.
MenEngage Global Alliance
MenEngage is a global alliance of NGOs and UN agencies that seeks to engage boys and men to achieve gender equality, including more than 400 NGOs from Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, North America, Asia and Europe. The Alliance came together in 2004 with the general goal of working in partnership to promote the engagement of men and boys in achieving gender equality, promoting health and reducing violence at the global level, including questioning the structural barriers to achieving gender equality.
MenEngage South Africa
Recently, with support from UNFPA, Sonke and other partners in South Africa have started to explore the idea of a MenEngage country network in South Africa that has a specific youth focus and which focuses on a broader range of sexual and reproductive health issues than only HIV. To date, provincial steering committees have been established in two provinces, the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal.
MenEngage Training Initiative
The MenEngage Africa Training Initiative is a training programme focusing on building the skills and capacity of individuals, organisations and government to undertake work engaging men and boys in prevention and response to GBV, HIV and AIDS and other social problems.
UN Trust Fund Project
The UN Trust Fund project seeks to engage men to strengthen the implementation of GBV laws and policies and promote gender equality in Kenya, Rwanda and Sierra Leone. This project will be running over a period of 3 years from September 2011 until August 2014.
