Tools and Curricula

Men as Partners (MAP), A Program for Supplementing the Training of Life Skills Educators

EngenderHealth and Planned Parenthood Association of South Africa (2001), Second Edition.

EngenderHealth’s Men as Partners (MAP) program designed this manual to primarily target men to discuss reproductive health issues within a gender framework. The manual is designed for MAP educators to lead workshops with men and sometimes mixed groups of men and women. The workshops are intended to train others be life-skills educators in their communities. Men as Partners (MAP), A Program for Supplementing the Training of Life Skills Educators includes sections and topics on resources; training activities and exercises; gender and sexuality; male and female sexual health; HIV/AIDS and other STIs; relationships; examining violence; awareness of sexual violence; and domestic violence.

Note: Also see PEPFAR Gender Norms Initiative which draws on MAP program.

Ideas and Action: Addressing the Social Factors that Influence Sexual and Reproductive Health

Care (2007).

In 2004 CARE began to experiment with new approaches to addressing the social factors that influenced health outcomes. As part of CARE’s broader poverty-reduction efforts, it developed approaches for helping communities to identify and address the social contributors to poor sexual and reproductive health in ways that went beyond providing quality services and health information. In order to sustain long term changes in health status, social norms that negatively effect health status needed to be changed. Funded by the Reproductive Health Trust Fund, the Innovations Projects has been implemented in Georgia, Malawi, Sierra Leone and Uganda with the expressed mandate to explore and document new ways of addressing health by challenging the social factors that influence health: gender, age, sexuality, masculinity, race, caste and religion. This manual provides NGO staff with material, exercises and skills to use a social analysis and action approach and develop a program cycle to work with communities to identify and address social factors underlying poor health outcomes. The Ideas and Action: Addressing the Social Factors that Influence Sexual and Reproductive Health manual has four sections including an introduction to social analysis and action, social analysis and action program cycle, social analysis and action case studies and tools for implementing social analysis and action.

Young Empowered and Healthy (YEAH)

Health Communication Partnership (2004 – 2007).

The Young Empowered and Healthy (YEAH) website provides links to “Something for Something” love materials such as posters, pamphlets, comic books, and CD ROMs. The campaign and materials address intergenerational sex, transactional sex, respect, male norms, fidelity, and more.

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