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BREAKING THE CYCLE - ENGAGING MEN AND BOYS FOR PROMOTING GENDER EQUALITY AND ENDING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN has involved 7 organizations such as: Cerujovi (Spain), Emancipator (The Netherlands), Youth First (Madagascar), SGVS (Samoa), CHSJ (India), FISD (Sri Lanka) and Caceres Deputy (Spain). It´s been developed from 01/12/2018 to 31/01/2020, with the main aim to engage Young men for promoting gender equality and ending violence against women through advocacy.For this aim, the project has included sharing experiences across the countries involved in the project, thanks to the high experience of the partner organizations, conducted through a Seminar developed in India, the completion of a Research in the field of youth of engaging men in gender equality in a local area, where all the countries put in common their owns to understand methodologies in other contexts, resulting also a good practices guide published and disseminated. And there was also a Study visit developed in The Netherlands, with the opportunity of meeting other professionals working in multiple areas on the same field and deloping the bases of the adovacy toolkit.After that, the project focused on providing resources for advocacy and training n how to engage men and boys in gender equality, so the Advocacy Toolkit was created with innovative approaches to advocate in youth, offering easy steps and actions related to advocacy for them. Also, the Training was set in Sri Lanka, for youth and youth workers to introduce how they can implement the work of engaging men and boys on the issue of gender justice in their ongoing programmes, offering thecnical knowledge and practical skills for that. After the training, local workhops were run by the participants in their local communities as key to introduce this need in the locals, empowering them for that, and the Online course was implemented on how to engage men and boys in gender eqquality and ending violence against women, with the ooportunity to get a diploma proving the skills acquired.The third part of the project, was raising awareness with men and boys directly in the community, through an information and an awareness campaign carried out through the meetings with stakeholders to disseminate the Advocacy Toolkit; dissemination of a media campaign for youth created within the project; and an elaboration of a list of recommendations on how to involve men and boys in gender justice; and a production of a documentary video to share stories of Men Heroes in Gender Equality.As a part of increasing the impact of the Project, a Large Scale Youth Event for young people was set during 2 days, giving a space to share knowledge and ideas, but also to connect between peers and create a big network on working in this issue, enhances the power of advocacy and youth without barriers and in an intercultural context, and Press media conference on each country was developed to disseminate the products and outcomes of the project, spreading within stakeholders and institutions.Project have reached a total of 2220 direct beneficiaries, of which 1213 have been young people with fewer opportunities. Moreover, there have been around 2800 indirect beneficiaries, and on international level, approximately 1000 people have accessed web page and/or Advocacy Tool Kit and/or E-learning course.
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