Caribbean Gender Advocates

St. George’s GRENADA: How can we in our communities transform attitudes and behaviours which perpetuate the root causes of gender-based discrimination that are reinforcing unequal relations of power between women and men?

Social mobilisation or community-led strategies to address gender-basedviolence is the focus of a UN Women Gender Advocates Training Workshopbeing held in Grenada.

With funding from the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives, the workshop represents partnerships in development.The participants are Caribbean practitioners who work at the community level around issues of social justice, youth and gender, who are working with UN Women to develop strategies and initiatives which can be used in communities to address harmful masculinity at the root of these power imbalances and for addressing violence against women and girls.

Under the HeForShe campaign the workshop is part of UN Women’s work on social mobilisation to address Gender Based Violence in the Eastern Caribbean. ‪#‎HeforShe is a global solidarity movement for gender equality developed by UN Women to engage men and boys as advocates and agents of change for the achievement of gender equality and women’s rights.