COFEM Learning Brief Series

Since 2016, one of COFEM’s central goals has been to address concerns around male engagement in the GBV/VAWG space. COFEM’s groundbreaking Feminist Pocketbook and SVRI Paper and Video Series defined accountability to women and girls concerning male engagement concerns. A few years later, we are reigniting this conversation by exploring what has changed, what challenges persist, and the current state of accountability in our feminist movements to EVAWG.

This learning brief aims to understand better how feminist practitioners, activists, and academics in the development and humanitarian fields are experiencing the drifting of EVAWG efforts to focus on men, particularly amid a far-right political agenda gaining traction across the world and decreased and/or stagnant funding for feminist movements. 

We hope this research will advance the discussion within the EVAWG field on emerging trends in the male engagement agenda and build upon COFEM’s critical recommendations on how to conduct male engagement work ethically and accountably.