Young Men Initiative in GBV Prevention in North Macedonia
Future for You(th) represents a unified effort to institutionalize and sustain life skills education, ensuring that young people in the Balkans develop into healthy, responsible, and non-violent adults.
YMI II was implemented between 2017 and 2020 and built upon CARE’s comprehensive programmatic efforts to combat interpersonal and gender-based violence (GBV), improve gender equality, and address the prevention of youth extremism and violence in the region.
o improve gender equality and decrease interpersonal and gender-based violence across Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, Albania, and Croatia by promoting healthy, non-violent, and gender-equitable lifestyles among young men and women.
The project aimed to promote a culture based on human rights, non-violence, and healthy development among young men and women and the wider community throughout the Western Balkans. The initiative sought to ensure that male youth aged 14-18 held attitudes and demonstrated behaviors that supported more gender-equitable social norms, healthy lifestyles, and discouraged violent behavior against their community, women, and peers. A baseline and endline quantitative survey were conducted to measure changes in attitudes and behaviors.
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