Fwd: [MenEngageConnect] COFEM Feminist Pocketbook
Badar Uzzama
From: <sin...@menengage.org>
Date: Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 3:46 AM
Subject: [MenEngageConnect] COFEM Feminist Pocketbook
To: <menengag...@googlegroups.com>, <menengage-me...@googlegroups.com>
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Dear MenEngage Alliance members and partners,
We wanted to bring to your attention this excellent new resource by Coalition of Feminists for Social Change (COFEM), the COFEM Feminist Pocketbook. The pocketbook is a series of 10 accessible, non-academic ‘tip-sheets’ on implementing feminist-informed approaches to addressing violence against women and girls.
One of the tip-sheets which MenEngage Alliance members may find particularly useful is on ‘Men as Allies and Activists’, which presents some of the challenges in engaging men in feminist activism and GBV prevention efforts, and underscores the need for accountability to women and girls in all work with men and boys to end GBV. It also provides some practical tips for practitioners, researchers, donors and policy-makers to ensure accountability in this work.
It argues: “Self-reflection is important; men must hold themselves accountable and responsible for centring the voices and experiences of women and girls and ensure their work does not replicate or further embed unequal power and male superiority. Nevertheless, accountability at the individual level is not enough. Rather, accountability needs to infuse all levels of work, from the individual to the institutional and beyond to broader structural change. For those organisations engaging men in GBV work to be truly accountable, there must be consistent critical action, evaluation and self-reflection, as well as support of, and bridge-building with, women’s rights movements.”
Strengthening capacity on accountable practices is one of the core focus areas for MenEngage Alliance, as well as promoting work to engage men and boys for gender justice that is gender-transformative, feminist-informed and human rights based. This pocketbook can be a key resource for members in promoting how this is done in practice. We encourage you to read the pocketbook and share among your networks.
Best wishes,
The MenEngage Alliance Global Secretariat
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