Engaging Men in The Fight
Engaging Men in The Fight
The Program
Sexual violences in camps:
Engaging men in the fight
This awareness-raising program is especially designed for humanitarian staff working in camp settlements, and intended for potential perpetrators of sexual violences, namely male residents.
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Whether victims are women, girls or boys
Whether violences occur inside the camp or in its surrounding
Whether violences occur at night or in broad daylight
Whether they are perpetrated within the household or a trafficking network
Whether they are perpetrated by a family member or by a stranger
the perpetrator is virtually always a man.
Humanitarian intervention shouldn’t have the vocation to educate, evangelize or transform societies and populations. Humanitarian workers shouldn’t be thought of as “changemakers,” as being the actors of change.
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This program engaging men in the fight against sexual violences actually aims at generating these “changemakers,” at opening a safe space for men to think out loud their relations to others in order to enable them to challenge held assumptions, rethink their behaviors.
Perpetrators are mainly partners, relatives and acquaintances of the victims.