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MEGEN runs a Rapid Response program, which offers support services to survivors of sexual- and gender based violence (SGBV), directly or through referrals. Members of the Rapid Response Team assist in rescuing survivors from dangerous situations, facilitate access to treatment, assist survivors in contacts with the police and other authorities, and do referrals to organizations providing shelter, counseling and legal services. Team members, who all work on a voluntary basis, also attend court sessions in solidarity with survivors.
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Since 2003, MEGEN Kenya has annually organised what has been dubbed the “Men’s Traveling Conference” (MTC) during the 16 Days of Activism on Gender Violence, November 25 - December 10. The MTC is a conference on-the-move, through which hundreds of men and women activists from MEGEN and partner organisations in Kenya and elsewhere travel to remote towns and villages by bus, encouraging grassroots men and women, local leaders and law enforcement officers to take action against sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV).
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The MEGEN Gender Training was set up in 2004. Since its inception it benefited immensely from the Gender training experience of FEMNET (The African Women’s Development and Communication Network).
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MEGEN has run an Artist program since 2004. Presently, 70 of the organizations’ members are involved in the program. The artist team develop skits, songs, and other form of drama to visualize the issues which MEGEN seeks to address: unequal power relations between men and women, gender-based violence and HIV and AIDS.
During outreach activities in communities, in seminars and workshops, the Artist team is called in to perform skits based on the prevailing gender and violence situation in that community. They also do ambush-theatre on the streets and market places, followed by guided discussion on the topics covered.
The Artists also take on work for other organizations and private sector companies on a consultancy basis.
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The Resource Mobilisation Programme deals with fundraising and offering competitive consultancy services for organisations and corporate bodies. Depending on the needs of specific corporate bodies, MEGEN Training can develop gender policies in the workplace and training members on gender issues and transforming masculinities.
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Communication for behaviour- and attitude change has always been a central component of the work of MEGEN. Through tools like posters, branding of buses, stickers, t-shirts and brochures, MEGEN has tried to communicate non-judgmental messages, which can provoke thinking and reflection among the target audiences - be it grassroots men, women, youth or policy makers.
The former MEGEN coordinator, Kennedy Otina, stresses that it has all along been important for the organisation to avoid campaign messages which portrays men in very negative terms if one aims to reach out to men and change them, since “no man identifies himself as a beast”. Instead he proposes asking questions, to allow people to reflect and begin the journey to change.
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