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The Sexual Offences Act - Revised
The Sexual Offences Act is a comprehensive legislative document that has helped to raise awareness ans is so far Kenya's boldest statement in combating Sexual Gender-based Violence through legislation.
How does change happen? What can spark men and women to start challenging the gender roles they have been socialized into performing? And is it possible for men who have always had negative attitudes towards women, even using violence to control women, to change and become activists for gender equality?
In this book, gender justice activists from Men for Gender Equality Now (MEGEN Kenya) share their personal experiences as individuals and as Changemakers.
Besides personal stories told by activists, this publication also includes short briefs on the work of MEGEN Kenya, highlighting the challenges, successes and lessons learnt in different program areas. The aim of publicly sharing these experiences is to inspire other organizations to learn from MEGENs work with men to promote gender equality.
FEMNET, together with representatives from MEGEN Kenya, developed this training manual, which has seven modules, looking broadly at the causes of violence, and how to take collective action against it. This manual is meant to be a contribution towards building the capacity and commitment of men to eradicate violence against women and girls and to develop the men’s movement for gender equality. The three broad objectives of the manual are to:1. Provide information on gender issues in general and gender-based violence in particular.2. Provide guidance on gender sensitization with specific reference to gender-based violence.3. Stimulate the development of initiatives geared towards eradicating gender-based violence.
This survey, looking at MEGEN Kenya and other men-to-men initiatives in Kenya and Namibia. It was conducted to:- Review and document the existing Men to Men Groups in Namibia and Kenya;- Plan the implementation of the Men to Men Project, building on what the organizations visited and others in the country are doing;- Identify other collaborating partners and ideas for media outreach;- Gather existing materials for male sensitization and other useful developing a multimedia kit (television and radio public service announcement, video documentary, booklet, posters and stickers) directed at men against GBV; Assess the need and timing for the training of male trainers in gender sensitization, mainstreaming and advocacy for the men’s groups.
During the post-election crisis in Kenya, MEGEN organised a series of seminars, dialogues and interactions, aimed at fact-finding on cases of SGBV and other types of violence, as well as to understand the root causes of violence, hear communities’ views on how it can be prevented, and their views on the possible ways of co-existing in the future. The seminars engaged (separately) with people perceived as survivors and also with perceived perpetrators of violence.
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