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MenEngage Alliance
About the Foundation
MenEngage Alliance, founded in 2007, is a space for members to come together in solidarity with those most targeted by gender injustices and patriarchal systems to collectively dismantle structural barriers to women’s rights and gender equality. We are a vibrant coalition of members ranging from grassroots community organisations to actors operating at national and international levels, including committed individual experts, activists and researchers. Our members are involved in addressing a broad spectrum of issues – including ending gender-based violence, advancing SRHR for all, increasing women’s economic and political decision making, redistributing unpaid care, advancing LGBTIQA rights, countering climate change and building feminist peace. We do so through strategies ranging from working with men in local communities to the halls of power – addressing diverse challenges and opportunities at country-, regional-, and global levels.
The mission of MenEngage Alliance is to transform unequal power relations and dismantle patriarchal systems by:
- Transforming patriarchal masculinities and rigid, harmful norms around ‘being a man’
- Working with men and boys on gender justice through intersectional feminist approaches
- Building inclusive collaborations from local to regional to global levels
- Developing joint actions in partnership with and accountability to women’s rights, gender- and other social justice movements.
Why We Support #StandWithHer
MenEngage Alliance strives to build a field of practitioners, researchers, policy-makers, funding partners and other important stakeholders, working together to develop gender transformative and accountable programmes, policies and narratives to engage men and boys and transform patriarchal masculinities to advance gender equality. MenEngage Global Alliance has become a pivotal mechanism to anchor, support and bring together the work of members and partners around the world serving to facilitate joint actions to engage men and boys and transform patriarchal masculinities, among key actors in the field.
With this role the Alliance plays, StandWithHer Campaign highlights the story of one of our members from India and showcases the compelling story of transformative change. By joining with the campaign team we want to amplify the efforts to amplify the story as a way to inspire and inform similar works around the world.
What We Hope to Achieve
We hope the campaign raises awareness that we do have some men and boys who are ready to take bold actions to question the harmful notions of manhood and the privileges that society grants them. With the powerful story from Kill the Tiger we wish that it provides them with ways to take transformative actions of allies and agents of change. We hope this campaign reaches men and boys in all spheres of society, from individual attitude and behaviour change, to allies in promoting progressive policies and institutional practices to advance women’s rights and gender justice. We believe that this campaign could call more men and boys in to critically reflect on their roles and responsibilities, and commit to foster ways of working with men and boys on patriarchal masculinities which are grounded in a commitment to significant social change, and to the social justice struggles on which such change depends.