Duration of the project: 01.07.2013. – 31.03.2014.
Goals of the project:
Increase the availability of quality informations and education to young men, in response to violence against girls in Hercegovačko – Neretvanski canton and the involvement of young people in changing gender stereotypes. This will be enabled through the inclusion of young men and boys into a program aimed at preventing violence against women and promoting zero tolerance rate for women’s violence in their schools and families.
The young men and boys involved in the program will have the challenge to respond on violence against girls and women adequately, to reflect on their masculinity and gender norms, attitudes and behaviors, and to re-examine themselves and their friends in order to overcome the established norms. Project will enable the access and inclusion of all young people from projects schools and local communities (men and women ), school authorities and parents.
Summary of the project:
One of the main reasons why the crucial inclusion of young people, especially in programs that are promoting equality and gender equality, is the fact that men and boys still have social power in BiH, which is intensified by tradition, customs and religion. Today, it is well known that the participation of young men and boys in programs of prevention of gender – based violence is also use to men and women. However, the inclusion of men and boys in such programs like these, often requires a breach of already rooted social and traditional norms and dominant forces of dynamics.
In Bosnia and Herzegovina, men and boys are convinced that a “real” man must be strong enough to be able to control the situation. Because of this reasons, Youth Power has decided, together with partners, that the targeted population should be boys and men in secondary schools.
Goal is to include boys/young men from different ethnic and geographical areas of the country, and that is how cooperation with high schools of Hercegovačko – Neretvanski canton will be established. Young people from three cities will join the schools of “Real Men Clubs” – RMC to increase awareness of peer violence prevention to achieve zero tolerance against women and girls in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The clubs of real parents will be formed in each school to support RMC’s
