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Organization: Coalition Against Trafficking in Women - Asia Pacific
Sector Focus - Other
Year the initative began (yyyy) - 2004
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Positioning in the Mosaic of solutions
What is your signature innovation, your new idea, in one sentence? - A preventive as well as transformative education program aims to change the sexual attitudes and practices of boys and young men that contribute to trafficking for sexual exploitation.
Describe your innovation. What makes your idea unique and different than others doing work in the field? - On the basis of CATW-AP's position that trafficking and prostitution is a demand and supply scheme that capitalizes on the vulnerability of women, CATW-AP developed this education strategy that particularly focuses at the micro level - the individuals. It aims to influence young men to be critical and examine their attitudes and practices towards rethinking a new concept of masculinity and taking action to change their behaviors.
Delivery Model: How do you implement your innovation and apply it to the challenge/problem you are addressing? - The strategy takes the form of a series of a three-day training camps for young men. Each camp has expected participants of around 60 with ages from 16 to 21. As young men developed awareness not to buy women, they also became advocates as they challenged other men to practice a new notion of masculinity that does not exploit women and promote violence against women, and served as support system to survivors in their campaigns and advocacy work.
How do you plan to grow your innovation? - Follow-up activities are being conducted by the camp graduates in their respective areas. These follow-up activities serve as multiplier effect in reaching out to more young men as well as a mechanism to expand the camp activities. If these follow-up activities could be sustained over time, a large number of young men could be educated and as a multiplier effect could cover the whole country, thus, creating greater coverage and bigger impact. Given this possible outcome, replication of the Camp project by Coalition members and partner addresses the issue of sustainability.
Do you have any existing partnerships, and if so, how do you create them? - This field has not been completed. (166 words or less)
Provide one sentence describing your impact/intended impact. - Camp's impact through the words of a camp graduate: "I want to promote change and equality. I want to become an advocate and make a difference in the lives of women. I want to be part of the solution not of the problem"
How many people have you served or plan to serve? - Around 480 young men leaders coming from various universities, colleges and communities all over the Philippines.
Please list any other measures of the impact of your innovation? - We conduct a diagnostic test before and after camps to measure the attitude change of the participants.
Exactly who are the beneficiaries of your innovation? - The young men (who are or could be the potential buyers) are the direct beneficiaries of this program. The rationale of his project is to address the gaps in current intervention programs that ignore or avoid addressing the demand side for trafficking and prostitution.
How is your initiative financed (or how do you expect your initiative will be financed)? - International funders
If known, provide information on your finances and organization - Annual budget;
Annual revenue generated; Number of staff: This field has not been completed. (166 words or less) What is the potential demand for your innovation? - This field has not been completed. (83 words or less)
What are the main barriers to financial sustainability? - This field has not been completed. (83 words or less)
What is the origin of this innovation? Tell us your story. - Young Men's Camp was developed to address the "demand side" to trafficking and prostitution, a very crucial gap in which current intervention programs neglects or avoids. It is also CATW-AP's response to Article 9 of the UN Optional Protocol that calls upon countires to take or strengthen legislative or other measures to discourage this demand that fosters all forms of exploitaiton of women and children.
Please provide a personal bio. Note this may be used in Changemakers marketing material - Name: Coalition Against Trafficking in Women - Asia Pacific
Executive Director: Jean Enriquez In April 1993, the "Conference on Women Empowering Women: A Human Rights Conference on Trafficking in Asian Women" held in Manila, Philippines gave birth to CATW-AP. The Coaliton was granted Category II Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Council Status. Contact Information:
Jean Enriquez
Executive Director Coalition Against Trafficking in Women - Asia Pacific (NGO) catw-ap@catw-ap.org Rm 608, Sterten Place, 116 Maginhawa Street, Teacher's Village, Quezon City, Philippines Philippines Tel: (+632) 4342149 Fax: (+632) 4342149 Website: http://www.catw-ap.org Discussions about this entry
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Young Men's Camp on Gender Issues, Sexuality and Prostitution
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HI, my name is carlo I live in Ireland. After been in treatment for drugs, now I am doing a course in sociology and I have to do an easssay on sexuality, now soon I also will start college in which I will do social studies. I have done an assay on gender. All this staff is quite new to me so I have been using drugs for a long time. And is challengiang also.
This eassay on sexuality I am going to concentrate on the different identities that are at there. First and the dominating is heterosexuality. How heterosexuality been the norm is considere "normal"; how the family, a heterosexual institution, is protected by the State and religion. Then a will talk about how male and female are socialise for different roles within the heterosexual cuples: Men meant to be "active", masculine and all the implications that come with it, and talk also about the new man. Women meant to be "passive", femenine and all the implications that come with it, talk also about femenits. ( I wanted to talk about protitution, so it's a sudject that really interest me but I may liave it for another eassay)
Then comes homosexuality. How homosexuality has been stigmatised, persecuted and terrorised. By religion as an act against God and by the State as an act against nature. Schools have no education around homosexuality. Media potray homosexuality with an estereotypical view: as a entertainer, always parting, effeminate and withn a tragic end. How homosexuality slowly is finding a place in society. Talk about the discourses...
And the last for this eassay will be transsexualism. And blaa blaaa blaaa Has somebody any tips???
Dear Jean,
Congratulations for your entry. We share as you know the same scope. Only transforming the root causes we will really make a change. I wish your proposal be selected.
In Sisterhood,
La Tere
Replacing male dominance with cooperation through your camps with young men is the the best way of addressing the demand for sex-trafficking. Congratulations. In your list of partners, why dont you put down KGPP? And in the potentail for demand for your innovation, please put us down. We would certainly like to use your strategy.
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Ruchira Gupta,
Founder President,
Apne Aap Women Worldwide,
D-56 Anand Niketan, New Delhi-21
ruchiragupta@gmail.com
www.apneaap.org
Kolkata University,
Kolkata, India
Hello, I'm interested in hearing your responses to several of the other questions and comments raised in this discussion forum. I hope you will take the time to engage in the discussion and respond. Your work has a lot of interesting components. I have some questions in regards to how the young men come to your program. Where do you recruit them? How do they learn about the program? Is there a fee required for participation? Is it part of a mandatory school program? Thank you!
Dana Frasz
Ashoka's Changemakers
Dear Laura, John and Dana,
Thank you very much for your questions. Below are my short answers. I am sorry for the late reply. Attached also is a write-up about the Young Men’s Camp Project.
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Prior to the conduct of Camps, CATW-AP established contacts with individuals or organizations in various schools as well as communities. We ensure the participation of the out-of-school youths of various communities. CATW-AP members organizations and networks played key roles in identifying contacts or potential participants. However, in areas where there were no members we linked up with school administrations, Student Governments and Youth Committees.
Applicants should accomplish an application form asking about their profiles, organizations/positions, and questions such as their views about masculinity, women’s status in the society, about prostitution and their expectations. All application forms will go through a screening process. The training team screen almost a hundred applicants each camp and only 50 to 60 are chosen.
We have selected the 16-21 age group because the main intent of the program is to influence attitudes and we believe that it is more strategic to involve the younger men. In our experience too it is relatively “easier” to engage young people in the discussion about gender issues rather that the older men who sometimes tend to justify their patriarchal consciousness. In addition, this is also the age range where men generally are being introduced to prostitution.
All expenses are being shouldered by CATW-AP. We conduct our camps during summer and semestral breaks in resorts to make it more attractive to the young participants.
For John, no we don’t require them to draft resolutions after camps. What we ask is for them to paint a bag made of canvass where they illustrate their new definition/s of the “new man”, or rebuilding the world for gender equality.
check this link to know more about the process of the Camp
http://www.catw-ap.org/?page_id=4 (then click rethinking masculinity)
Ma'am,
Greetings!
I do not know if it was you I met in Cebu during the CEDAW State Obligation Monitoring seminar I attended sponsored by UP and UNIFEM, I am one of the 3 male out of the 30 females there and the youngest one.
If it was not you, well I will share to you what we have discussed: We have discussed future partnership especially for the "Young Men's Camp" which we also do but for most-at-risk boys (street children, drug addicts, children in conflict with the law) we also tackled "Pornography" which we shared a common detestation to it and how it distort sexuality and according to her it was one of the crucial issues being tackled in the Camp.
Ma'am on December 2008 or Summer of 2009 we might organize a Peer Educators' National Convention and Children's Conference with the help of UNICEF. The proposed activity will highlight peer educator's from most-at-risk children and youth responses to HIV and other issues such as pornography, sexula violence among others.. can we link with you and send us a represnetative that will coach us in you work?
BTW,
(1) After the Camp, do the youth draft a position paper or resolution or some kind of a declaration?
(2) Do they in their individual committment recruit more young men to join your initiative?
(3) How about young men in the slum, urban poor areas... as you know there are many misinformed and misguided young men in these communities!
(4) Another ma'am, we have a lot of cases where female adults sexually abuse young boys? whats your comment on it? is that part of the Camp? As you know, this should be stopped. Our young boys felt lucky when they expereince having sex with women (Prostituted women offers sex for boys for free if they are below 18).
Thank you very much and may the Force be with you...
John Piermont V. Montilla
Executive Director
Kabataang Gabay sa Positibong Pamumuhay (KGPP), Inc.
Iloilo City
Hello,
I just had the pleasure of reading your entry and I have to commend your organization’s efforts to focus on men. Bringing in men as partners is an important part of efforts to end violence against women, including the fight to end the trafficking of women for sexual exploitation. Gender norms, which subvert women and their role in society, are factors that perpetuate this horrible practice and changing these norms is key to ending trafficking. Good job!
EngenderHealth has an innovative and successful project called Men as Partners that might be helpful to look at for best practices at how to empower women through raising awareness among men. Though they focus mainly on reproductive health- their objectives- which are around changing gender norms- are relevant to our issue as well. The project’s website is http://www.engenderhealth.org/our-work/gender/men-as-partners.php.
I also appreciate that your project has an evaluation component- pre and post test- which is important to ensure that the camp is in fact changing attitudes.
It might strengthen your entry even more if you teased out the following ideas:
1) You mention that the age group for camps are men ages 16-21. Can you tell us why this age group was chosen?
2) How does your project identify potential participants in the camp? and
3) Is your program able to reach men who are out of school as well? And if so how do you/ would you do this?
Laura Cardinal
Public Health and Human Trafficking Specialist