Promote gender equality in the home and overall family wellbeing by helping men participate in workshops focused on transforming norms around fatherhood and masculinity.

Why we care: Engaged, non-violent fatherhood is good for children, good for women and good for men themselves; it decreases child abuse, benefits maternal and infant health, promotes women’s empowerment and gender equality.

How we’re solving this: Supplying baby dolls to fatherhood groups to help fathers-to-be in Rwanda learn tangible skills: how to change, wash, dress and hold their babies, and other concrete caregiving skills.

Four out of five men worldwide will be fathers at some point in their lives, and nearly all the world’s men have some connection to children as stepfathers, brothers, uncles and teachers, among others.

We believe in the potential in every man, but resources and support for expecting fathers are not always available.

The MenCare Global Fatherhood Campaign has helped to implement Fathers’ Groups in Nicaragua, Botswana, Namibia and South Africa. In 2013, MenCare partners will be implementing fatherhood groups in Rwanda via the antenatal care-focused health sector.

By engaging men in fatherhood and changing the way the world thinks about men’s involvement in the lives of their children, MenCare has the potential to translate change into positive, equitable and empowering benefits for their wives, their children and themselves.