Location: Global

Grantee Website:  https://www.equimundo.org/

Mission of Equimundo

Founded in 2011 as Promundo US, Equimundo works to achieve gender equality and social justice by transforming intergenerational patterns of harm and promoting patterns of care, empathy and accountability among boys and men throughout their lives.

Summary

Equimundo’s major areas of focus are:

• Equity of Care — working to achieve equitable distribution of care and men’s full investment in the care economy. Globally, women carry out more than three times the hands-on care of children and households compared to men. The equal contribution of men to daily care work is necessary for full equality for women, for the well-being of children, for men themselves, and for healthy, just, non-violent societies. (MenCare, Program P).
• Gender Socialization – promoting environments that support boys and young men to live out diverse, equitable and healthy masculinities. Ideas about gender – about how society expects boys, girls, and all children as well as adults to be – are among the first things children learn about the world. A growing body of international research has confirmed that boys, regardless of country, ethnicity, or economic situation, are socialized to cut themselves off from important relationships, repress their emotions, overemphasize competition and achievement, sacrifice their health, both use and experience violence and take unwise risks that endanger their lives.  (Program H, Global Boyhood Initiative).
• Violence Prevention & Male Allyship — working to prevent violence carried out by men and boys and perpetuated by harmful versions of masculinity. Global statistics find that approximately one in two children experiences some form of violence; boys are likely to experience violence in homes, schools, and communities. Research also finds that globally, with significant variations within and between countries, about 1 in 3 women worldwide have been subjected to either physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence in their lifetime.
• Thought Lab — carrying out research on new and emerging themes related to masculinity, social justice, and structural inequality.

Equimundo works with:

• Governments: Building the evidence for effective laws and policies that support and promote gender equality.
• Corporate Brands and Workplaces: Developing research-based solutions for workplace innovation, growth, marketing campaigns and employee satisfaction by engaging men as part of the solution for equitable, violence-free workplaces.
• Schools and Educational Institutions: Strengthening the capacity and skills of education, social services, and childcare providers to support parents to practice nurturing care, equitable gender socialization, non-violent communication, and child-rearing.
• Health Systems: Promoting improved policies and protocols, and building the skills of healthcare providers to foster men’s involvement in caregiving, while always keeping central women’s agency and autonomy, and uplifting men’s own health-seeking.
• Media and News: Advocating for the representation of healthy masculinities in popular media.
• Individuals, Couples and Families: Creating, testing, evaluating and scaling up gender transformative methodologies for key moments in a man’s life (childhood, adolescence, and parenthood) that can be applied in diverse environments where individuals lead their lives.

Why We Love This Partner

Together Women Rise’s long-term partnership with Equimundo is a unique opportunity for Rise’s community to be part of a movement that engages men and boys to be equal partners in the Care Economy, assist men and boys to live out diverse, equitable and healthy masculinities, and prevent gender-based violence. Globally this movement seeks to transform the lives of men and women to create healthy, just, and non-violent societies.