Project Areas

Objectives and Intervention areas

Objective: Men and boys supported to acquire positive sexual and reproductive health rights practices in their private and social life.

Broad Intervention Areas: Promotion of SRHR for men and boys.

Objective:  Boys and men re-oriented into a gender transformative lifestyle fostering new masculinity in families and communities in Kenya.

Broad Intervention Areas: Eradicating patriarchal systems for change of attitudes, beliefs, and institutions that perpetuate negative masculinities.

Objective: Boys and men involved in the recognition, reduction, and redistribution of reproductive gender roles at the domestic, community, and national levels.

Broad Intervention Areas: Socialize boys and re-socialize men into performing, recognizing, and redistribution of reproductive roles, self-care, and a healthy lifestyle.

Objective: Men and boys leading community advocacy actions to end violence and discrimination of boys and men in families and communities and national level.

Broad Intervention Areas: Ending all forms of violence and discrimination against men and boys.

Objective”: Boys and men adopting a positive health seeking behavior for lifelong social, physical and mental wellbeing in communities in Kenya.

Intervention Areas: health and gender aspects, TB, Malaria, HIV, screening and medical checkups, management of non-communicable diseases, Covid 19, prostate cancer, food production preparation and consumption.

Boys 9 – 15 years:

Young boys who are mostly in school. Our intervention will target boys in schools while working with parents and teachers. Our interventions will complement the efforts that support SRHR girls within the same age group.

1. Disturbing cases of botched and violence during traditional circumcision among boys Cases of Botched Circumcisions’ in Kenya.
2. Lack of involvement of men and boys in ending teenage pregnancy among girls Global Citizen Report – Kenya.
3. Sexual health Men and SRHR Kenya.
4. HIV/STIs UNAIDS Country Report Kenya.

●       Promote voluntary medical male circumcision.

●       Engage young boys in their SRHR, prevention of teenage pregnancy, and knowledge on menstrual health among others.

●       Promote awareness and treatment of sexually transmitted infections – STI and HIV/AIDS.

●       Promote sexual health access to boys and men.

●       Support training and policy change among health workers and institutions to increase men and boy’s uptake of health services.

16 – 24 years:

Boys or young men in secondary and post-secondary educational institutions.  Others who are out of school and engaged in other economic activities. At this age, young men are sexually active which makes them also vulnerable to negative ideas and notions about SRHR.

1. Peer to peer teenage pregnancy Engaging Men and Boys: A Brief Summary of UNFPA Experience and Lessons Learned
2. Sexual violence (Rape and defilement) Global Database on Violence against Women
3. Poor personal health seeking behavior among men and boys with STI/HIV Kenya AIDS Strategic Framework II
4. Family planning Essential Considerations for Engaging Men and Boys for Improved Family Planning Outcomes

●       Eradicate of all forms of sexual violence.

●       Promote Sexual health for young men.

●       Increase the uptake of family planning and birth control among men and boys.

●       Review and implement policy, strategies and programmes, that take into account the needs of men in SRHR and promoting men-friendly health services

●       Increase the involvement of men in prenatal and antenatal care and support.

25 – 50 years:

Men in families or engaged in different professional organizations.  Some of the key places with mobilized crowds include churches, workspaces and men dominated spaces.

1. Lack of sufficient knowledge on sex life in marriage.
2. Limited involvement in family planning programmes.
3. Sexual violence.
4. Sexual health and self-grooming.
5. Late presentation of prostate cancer cases.
6. The existence of harmful cultural practices presided over by close family members and cultural leaders who are predominantly men.

●       Capacity building for health workers to address men’s SRHR needs (increase in SRHR knowledge and skills, and management).

●       Marriage school programme for supporting married men counseling and preparing them for marriage.

●       Improve the health-seeking behavior among men for sexually transmitted diseases, infertility, erectile dysfunction, impotence as well as issues related to SRH cancers such as prostate cancers are increased

●       Positive cultural and religious influence towards men seeking SRHR services and ending harmful cultural practices such as FGM and child marriage.

●       Review the existing policies, strategies, programmes are developed for men to enhance their participation in and access to SRHR services

●       Adequate services are developed to address men’s SRHR issues.

50+ years:

These are men serving in traditional cultural institutions and religious organizations at community level. They are the custodians and prefects of cultural doctrines and beliefs. Their influence goes beyond the ordinary members of the community and may be having the ears of elected political leaders and policy makers.

1. They are socialized to believe that they are better human beings than girls and women at school and in their life.
2. Men face challenges in taking good care of themselves on personal matters such as personal grooming, preparing their own food or support to spouse and children.
3. Reckless life of irresponsible sexual behaviors.

●       Re-socialize boys to change their attitudes about manhood, acknowledge human rights and human beings void of cultural, religious and other influences.

●       Train leaders and decision makers with necessary knowledge and skills to implement laws and policies that are responsive to the needs of boys and men

●       undertake sensitization and advocacy with leaders and decisions makers for policy change and recognition of men as clients of s that are gender sensitive and call for the broader participation of men in GBV prevention

1. Some have strong cultural or religious influence on their attitudes about being a man.
2. Custodians and promoters of negative attitudes that are incompatible with human rights life.
3. Have no information on the importance of human rights in the lives of men and boys and justify their actions using culture or religion.
4. Handle matters with a lot of dominance and negative authority and lack skills for dialogues with family members including children.

●       Engage with religious and cultural institutions to strengthen their understanding of human rights.

●       Work to change the governance structures within the religious and cultural institutions.

●       Engage with the men dominated spaces including the transport sector, boda-boda groups.

●       Engage with men in different sporting disciplines to redefine manhood.

●       Eradicating harmful traditional and religious practices.

●       Communities have a greater awareness of gender-based violence

●       Work with men and boys to end all forms of gender-based violence.

1. Neglect of boys by present, present but carefree, irresponsible or absent fathers.
2. Domestic violence and corporal punishment on boys.
3. Peer to peer violence including physical fights in school and communities.
4. Negative enculturation and violence during the rite of passage.

●       Initiate a father figure programme to support the boys in school.

●       Raise awareness to end corporal punishment and domestic violence in the home.

●       Push for humane rites of passage and linking with churches, cultural organizations and other medical institutions providing services to the youth.

●       Address the peer-to-peer fights in schools and communities.

1. Domestic violence
2. Peer to peer violence.
3. Moranism and cattle rustling.
4. Criminal gangs
5. Religious fundamentalism
6. Drug and substance abuse

●       Develop strategies to address men’s vulnerability to violence

●       Raise the voices of men and boys and integrate positive masculinity into gender programmes at national and community levels.

●       Meaningful engagement of men and boys as advocates for policy change for their welfare.

●       Engage law enforcement agencies in raising awareness of the concerns of men and boys.

●       Establish community level marriage schools to support groups for young married men.

1. Domestic violence meted on children and women by adult men.
2. Drugs and substance abuse
3. Negative cultural practices and religious beliefs

●       Develop tools for promoting rights-based strategy at family and community level.

●       Design programmes to address the needs of special groups including uniform/forces and other men dominated groups.

●        Policies and programmes are inclusive of special groups for men (i.e., traditional leaders, military, police, religious leaders)

●       Conduct a baseline is developed to identify the needs gaps within this group and design effective programmes that address men’s concerns on violence.

1. Domestic violence
2. abandonment by family members
3. Hunger and personal upkeep.

●       Establish a support group for the elderly men.

●       Engage with elderly men on human rights programmes.

●       Re-orient elderly men into reproductive roles as a hobby in the family and communities.

1. Playing and being dirty.
2. Soiling clothes and throwing them anywhere.
3. Little or no involvement in domestic chores.
4. Must be reminded to bath themselves.

●       Play but clean up the mess in clothes and play area.

●       Washing and cleaning lessons.

●       Engagement of boys in domestic work.

●       Personal grooming and presentation.

●       Proper disposal of waste and other litter.

1. Lack of cooking skills.
2. Poor management of the home and environment.
3. Lack of cleaning of personal clothes and body.
4. Poor personal grooming and self-care.
5. Lack of knowledge of caring for the sick.

●       Train young men and boys to cook.

●       Home and domestic environment management.

●       Personal grooming and cleanliness.

●       Cleaning of one’s personal effects.

●       Responsible fatherhood.

●       Support the ailing members

●       Offer support to mothers and infants on pre and post-natal care.

●       Provision of care and support to ailing members of the family.

1. Lack of cooking skills.
2. Poor management of the home and environment.
3. Lack of cleaning of personal clothes and body.
4. Poor personal grooming and self-care.
5. Lack of knowledge on child raising.

●       Train men to cook and prepare food.

●       Home and domestic environment management.

●       Personal grooming and cleanliness.

●       Cleaning of one’s personal effects.

●       Responsible fatherhood.

●       Support the ailing members

●       Offer support to families including new mothers and newborns.

1. Lack of cooking skills.
2. Poor management of the home and environment.
3. Lack of cleaning of personal clothes and body.
4. Widower
5. Poor personal grooming and self-care.
6. Lack of knowledge on child raising.

●       Train young men and boys to cook.

●       Home and domestic environment management.

●       Personal grooming and cleanliness.

●       Cleaning of one’s personal effects.

●       Promote responsible fatherhood among the sons’.