Human Rights Education Associates

Public webinar: Engaging Men and Boys in Gender Equality Programming

Tuesday, 19 May 2015 at 14h30 UTC/GMT

Join us for a free one-hour professional development webinar with Gary Barker, International Director and founder of Promundo.

Most programs and projects to promote gender equality focus on women. However, it is equally important to address power dynamics between different genders and consider how they affect progress towards gender equality. Because of this, practitioners increasingly recognise that engaging men and boys in programming is essential to advancing gender equality and women’s empowerment. Programming should also identify male-based gender issues that may make men and boys particularly vulnerable. In this webinar, Gary Barker will draw upon concrete experiences and examples from Promundo’s work to provide a critical look at current efforts to engage men and boys to promote gender equality.

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Target audiences

This webinar is intended for:

  • staff of inter-governmental and non-governmental organisations;
  • humanitarian practitioners;
  • gender focal points;
  • all others interested in advancing gender equality.


About the presenter

Gary Barker, PhD, is a leading voice on engaging men and boys in advancing gender equality and ending violence against women. He is International Director and founder of Promundo, an international NGO with offices in Brazil, Rwanda, Portugal and the US that works nationally and globally in engaging men and boys for gender equality. He is co-chair and co-founder of MenEngage, a global alliance of more than 400 NGOs and UN agencies working to engage men and boys in gender equality, and a member of the UN Secretary General’s Men’s Leaders Network to end violence against women. He has been awarded an Ashoka Fellowship and a fellowship from the Open Society Institute for his work, and holds a visiting researcher appointment at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. He is coordinator of the multi-country survey on men, IMAGES (the International Men and Gender Equality Survey), one of the largest ever surveys on men’s attitudes and behaviors related to violence, fatherhood and gender equality. He is co-founder of MenCare, a global campaign, active in more than 25 countries, to promote men’s involvement as equitable, non-violent caregivers. He holds a doctorate in child development from Loyola University (Chicago) and a master’s in public policy from Duke University.

How to join

Please register in order to receive the logistical details necessary to join the webinar.

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HREA also offers an e-learning course on Engaging Men and Boys in Gender Equality Programming from 16 September-27 October 2015. To watch other free webinars in HREA’s public webinar series, please register for the Human Rights Campus.