"Understanding Masculinities: Culture, Politics & Social Change" Fellowship Programme

Partners for Prevention, though its interactive website ENGAGINGMEN.NET, is offering a fellowship programme for practitioners and trainers in South Asia for a course that offers mid-level leaders and practitioners in national and international non-governmental organisations (NGOs), media, and educational institutions an opportunity to enhance their conceptual understanding as well as to build their skills to effectively work on masculinities and gender justice.

Women, men, and transgender people from the following South Asian countries can apply for the fellowship: Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Pakistan. Through an application process (followed by an interview if required), 30 fellows will be selected based on their experience, prior engagement and commitments, personal history, and expertise.

The fellowship includes an 18-day residential institute in Kathmandu, Nepal, in February 2011, a 7-day refresher course, and a 6-month mentored and funded intervention project in the countries in the Fellows’ domain of work.

The fellowship will provide:

• A conceptual understanding to participants on masculinities and its linkages to the self, patriarchy, globalisation, conflict, religion, identity, custom, and media.
• Facilitation skills to enable effective translation or deliberation of the knowledge into programmes designed for intervention with local communities or other domains of works around gender justice.
  

Partners for Prevention is a joint United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), and United Nations Volunteers (UNV) programme.