UNDRR: Engaging children and youth in disaster risk reduction and resilience building
UNDRR has created a guide entitled “Words into Action Guidelines: Engaging children and youth in disaster risk reduction and resilience building”, that addresses how to support and engage children and youth around the world in disaster risk reduction to fully implement the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030.
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The Big Conversation: Handbook to Address Violence Against Women in and Through the Media
The Big Conversation: Handbook to Address Violence Against Women in and Through the Media
UNESCO and UN Women
Violence against women remains one of the greatest human rights issues of our time. One in every three women will experience some form of physical or sexual violence (not including sexual harassment) in her lifetime. The Beijing Platform for Action, a global blueprint for the achievement of gender equality nearing its 25-year review, reminds us that there is still much work to do to stem the scourge of this epidemic. It also reminds us of the importance of media to this agenda. Television, film, radio, print and social media surround us on a daily basis, providing information, entertainment and ever-increasing channels of communication. These platforms, and the content they deliver, present both unrelenting challenges and incredible opportunities for the achievement of gender equality and the elimination of violence against women and girls.The discriminatory social norms that drive gender inequality and violence against women and girls have often been perpetuated through the stereotypical portrayals of men and women, not only along gender lines, but also other personal identities, such as race, language group, disability and social and economic status, among others. At the same time, media have powerfully contributed to opening up our imaginations, demonstrating the rich-ness of our diversity and holding promise for a world with more respectful relationships and greater harmony. It is this power that we seek to harness and support.UN Women and UNESCO are pleased to have collaborated on the production of this handbook, which is one in a series of handbooks being developed to advance implementation of A Framework to Underpin Action to Prevent Violence against Women (UN Women, UNDP, UNESCO, UNFPA, OHCHR and WHO, 2015). This handbook provides guidance, tools and promising practices from countries across the globe for those working with and within media. It is our intention that this handbook provides entry points for accelerating progress towards gender equality in the systems and structures of organizations. We hope that it leverages what we know works in order to promote the values of diversity, equality and non-violence in the content that media produces.Åsa Regnér Moez Chakchouk Assistant Secretary-General Assistant Director-General Deputy Executive Director for Communication and Information UN Women UNESCO
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Entertainment, Education, and Attitudes Toward Domestic Violence
Entertainment education (“edutainment”) is a communication strategy that works through mass entertainment media with the aim of promoting a better context for behavior change than the delivery of information alone. We experimentally evaluate season 3 of the edutainment TV series MTV Shuga, produced by MTV Staying Alive Foundation and filmed in Nigeria. Shuga 3 consists of eight episodes of 22 minutes each. While the main focus of the series is HIV, a subplot involves a married couple with a violent husband.
In this paper, we focus on this theme and assess the impact of Shuga on attitudes toward domestic violence. We find broadly positive effects. Moreover, the effect seems to be concentrated among people who recall the show and the narrative around the characters well, consistent with the idea of edutainment.
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Getting girls’ voices heard on the global stage: progress since the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action
Author: Nicola Jones
Much progress has been made since Beijing in 1995, when ‘The Girl Child’ was singled out as one of 12 priorities for advancing gender equality and women’s empowerment. Improvements in girls’ access to education and empowerment have accompanied reductions in child marriage. But there is still a long way to go to ensure that all adolescent girls in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) can exercise voice and agency in their families and communities.
My recent fieldwork trips to Azraq camp in Jordan (home to Syrian refugees) and Ethiopia’s pastoralist Afar region really underscored this. It is not just that girls need opportunities to exercise voice and agency within their families and communities; there is also the urgent and daunting collective task of ensuring that governments and development partners translate these voices into adequate support and resourcing.
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