Practitioners, policy advocates, and researchers have come to an agreement that we must engage men and boys across the individual, community, institutional, and societal levels to end violence against women (VAG). So, it is important to work across different sectors to effect change at different levels of the social ecology.
To bring change at the individual level we must start from the adolescents because in this age boys develop attitudes, gender relations and gender identities. Starting male engagement program at school level and reaching out to young boys at home and playgrounds too is necessary to form their positive attitudes towards opposite gender. We must teach young boys to adopt positive masculinities through well-tested, evidence-based group-work methodologies to form more equitable gender relations.
We must highlight the positive role of men in front of boys for instance caregivers. we must persuade them to be caregiver withing their families and then communities because men’s involvement with their families is an important component of supporting their social reintegration in post-conflict situations. Youth must be taught that social justice is crucial to have a better life so boys and girls have to struggle together to have one.
We are running unique and most effective men engagement program which focuses on fatherhood concept. We have observed that most abusers don’t listen to anyone regarding their behaviour but when it comes to the education of their children they do listen. When we tell them that their violent behaviour can affect the healthy development of their children and they can imitate them now and in future too, this affects more than anything and they start trying to change their violent behaviour for their children.