Nyanda Khanyile is a gender and HIV/AIDS activist and has worked with men for many years. Since leaving the private sector where he worked for First National Bank, he has developed and implemented many male involvement programmes. At PPASA he worked closely with the Women's Health Project and EngenderHealth to implement a gender equity project within the South African National Defence Force and trained many SANDF social workers and other military personnel on HIV/AIDS and gender based violence prevention. Since then he has been actively involved in the Men as Partners Network and worked as a consultant with EngenderHealth and Hope Worldwide to coordinate a MAP intervention in Soweto, and with UNICEF to implement MAP activities in Nkandla, KwaZulu-Natal. Nyanda lives in Soweto with his wife and son.