Barker, Gary

Nearly 30 years after the adoption of the Beijing Platform for Action (BPfA), caregiving remains deeply feminised and undervalued in both policy and practice. While global efforts have focused on reducing women’s unpaid care burdens, far less attention has been paid to creating opportunities to engage men in care, to how patriarchal gender norms constrain […]

This article draws on Promundo and RWAMREC’s programmatic experiences in Rwanda of implementing MenCare+, a gender transformative approach to engaging young and adult men (ages 15–35) in caregiving, maternal, newborn, and child health, and sexual and reproductive health and rights. We present initial results from fathers’ groups with more than 600 men, including the impact of participation in […]

The benefits of women’s economic empowerment are well-known and documented in the development literature. Few studies and interventions, however, have explored how men react or can be engaged to enhance such interventions. This article presents an evaluation of a pilot project in Rwanda in collaboration with CARE Rwanda’s Village Savings and Loan (VSL) programme that […]