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WBB Trust organized a workshop on "Men's role in reducing domestic
violence" at Koitta Manikgonj, 1-3 February 2006. During the
workshop, 28 people from 13 NGOs engaged in capacity building on
research and programming. An action plan was also made
to implement the research recommendations.
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1-2 December 2005, WBB Trust hosted a regional workshop on gender
for the program Promoting Male Responsibility Towards Greater Gender
Equality. Participants from Bangladesh, India and Vietnam exchanged
their research results and discussed plans to utilize their research
in future programming to increase male responsibility in reproductive health
and prevention of domestic violence. |
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the two day workshop, participants discovered many factors in common
among their countries, including the widespread belief that women's
household work is of little or no value, and the belief that men
should make all important decisions. |
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participants agreed that much can be done to encourage men to take a
more positive role in the family, and that positive messages showing
what we want from men will be most useful in convincing men to take
more responsibility in the family and treat women better. The
participants also agreed that work must be done to emphasize the
economic importance of women's unpaid work, be it in the fields or
in the home. |
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