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Discover RWAMREC’s key areas of intervention, from gender-based violence prevention and positive masculinity to youth empowerment and community engagement. Learn how we promote gender equality across Rwanda. Programs GENDER EQUALITY Rwanda Men’s Resource Centre conducts mass sensitization and education programs, media campaigns and public lectures, mentoring programs, etc to engage men and youth in Gender-based violence (GBV) prevention, positive masculinity, positive cultural norms and values associated with life skills and orientation in the ir daily interaction with women counterparts. FIGHT AGAINST GBV Campus dialogues and Schools outreach programs against GBV will be implemented in order to involve as many youth population as possible. Special sessions with focus on techniques that encourage men to confront the peer’s attitudes about sex and violence will be organized for men by men within and outside schools. ADVOCACY By advocacy, Rwamrec involves policy makers, parliamentarians, NGOs, Government and other Stakeholders through, lobbying, mobilizing and building alliances and networks with them so that they put in place proactive gender sensitive policies and strategies that address gender issues by their root causes. Our strategies Mass mobilization and sensitization campaigns to engage men to adopt positive masculine behaviors to effectively prevent gender-based violence. Research on perceptions and practices on masculinity and GBV in Rwanda. Capacity building to mainstream men engagement in gender promotion and GBV prevention programs, provide training and material resources for implementing menengage initiatives through gendered programs. Advocacy strategies through public event as well as building alliances with policy makers, non-governmental organizations, and other stakeholders for purposes of putting in place proactive policies and strategies that address gender issues by their root cause. Dialogues and school mentorship programs in order to involve as many young women and men in GBV prevention throughout Rwanda.

Discover BAHO (Building and Strengthening Healthy Households), a CARE Rwanda and RWAMREC initiative using the Indashyikirwa model to help couples live free from violence. The program promotes gender equality, economic empowerment, and healthier relationships through training, media outreach, and community engagement. BAHO The BAHO program is short for Building and Strengthening Healthy Households. It takes its name from the Kinyarwanda imperative form of the verb "to live", as the project mission is to provide couples with an opportunity to live in a safe household free from domestic violence using the Indashyikirwa model. Care Rwanda directs and funds the initiative implemented with RWAMREC's assistance. The Indashyikirwa couple curriculum, co-designed by CARE InternationalRwanda and RWAMREC, achieves this goal. This curriculum has effectively improved women's economic situations by reducing intimate partner violence (IPV). The program involves women's economic empowerment activities and engaging men as allies for gender equality. It also uses digital messaging and mass media/radio to raise awareness. The program works to shift attitudes around violence and control of women's mobility and financial assets. It promotes positive behaviours like communication, positive masculinity, shared household chores, and joint decision-making. Indashyikirwa has achieved scale and expanded beyond small pilots through government and civil society support. The Indashyikirwa model operates on various levels: Firstly, CARE and local partners provide couple curriculum training for couples at the household level with a curriculum that promotes healthy and equitable relationships among couples. This training reduces gender-based violence and increases women's economic decision-making power. Women participants are selected from VSLAs and bring their partners for couples training. Secondly, the program engages women in VSLAs outside their homes, which has proven to increase access to resources through savings and small businesses. Lastly, at the village level, the Indashyikirwa collaborates with opinion leaders and the government's "Friend of the Family" community-based volunteer network to organize regular community-level dialogues that shift gender-based violence norms.