Challenges Of Men To Participate In The Reduction Of Gender-based- Violence Against School Girls In Addis Ababa The Case Of Gulele Sub-city Preparatory Schools

The study is to pave the way for different intervention mechanisms which need the contribution of malernstudents, male teachers or/and men in general in the reduction of gender-based-violence against school girls.rnThe study used both quantitative and qualitative methods to obtain data from male student and male teacherrnsurvey respondents, female student focus group discussants and female teacher key informants of the selectedrnpreparatory schools. Moreover, the study obtained data from key informants in Gulele Sub-city Women AffairsrnOffice and Police Department.rnRegarding the participation of men, 175 (97.8%) male students and 38 (97.4%) male teachers and the three keyrninformants said that men’s participation is important to reduce gender-based-violence against school girls.rnHowever, in all of the focus group discussions among female preparatory students, there were discussants whornsaid that male students, male teachers or/and men’s participation couldn’t bring change. According to theserndiscussants, the reason why men’s participation isn’t important is that men don’t understand the pain of thernsurvivor so that they can’t be participants to reduce GBV against school girls.rnIt was found out that the way men grew up, the societal attitude on men’s participation, absence of policyrnframework about men’s participation, lack of legal protection for those who participate to reduce gender-basedviolencernand fear of fighting with the perpetrator were the main types of challenges that prevent men fromrnparticipating in the reduction of GBV against school girls. It was also found out that, awareness creation for thernin-school and out-of-school community members, establishing and strengthening in-school and out-of-schoolrngender-clubs, formulating policy about men’s participation, strengthening legal protection for those whornparticipate to reduce GBV were some of the suggested mechanisms the make men participants in the reduction ofrnGBV against school girls.rnIn general, dealing with challenges of men to participate in the reduction of gender-based-violence against school girls doesn’t imply men should be the main participants in the reduction campaign but it is to find ways which enable concerned bodies to tackle the challenges that prevent men so as to make them partners in the reduction of gender-based-violence against school girls

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