Campeonato de Futebol contra violência de gênero - Vencedor prêmio regional - Brasil!
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Fabio
Verani
Promundo
+55-21-2544-3114
Rua Mexico 31 / 1502 - Rio de Janeiro
, RJ
The project provides a well-organized amateur soccer tournament.
The workshops include:
1) Testing the manual.
2) Recruiting and training capable experienced facilitators
3) Developing monitoring tools for facilitators and evaluation tool for workshop participants.
Community Campaign
1) Prepare and distribute a weekly 4-page newspaper for the project
2) Prepare posters, flyers and banners for 4 different sub-themes around gender equity and gender-based violence.
3) Develop events to take place in the community to disseminate campaign materials and promote the campaign themes (ex. theater, talkshows, music, etc)
Monitoring and Evaluation
1) Conduct a pre-test and post-test with soccer tournament players and a sample of community members
2) Conduct focus groups pre and post.
Dissemination
1) Dissinate and publish finding from the evaluation of the project
2) Seek partnerships and funding to expand the program to other settings and evaluate the success
The men in the workshops/in the community will become more gender equitable in their attitudes.
The men in the workshops/in the community will report lower rates of usage of violence (physical, sexual and emotional).
The men in the workshops/in the community will report greater comfort discussing violence and criticizing the violence of their friends and neighbors.
The men in the workshops/in the community will report feeling comfortable intervening (in a non-violent manner) when they see or know about violence against women.
Women participating in qualitative evaluation will report lower rates of exposure to violence and more equitable relationships.
And evaluated model of intervention with young and adult men utilizing soccer as a galvanizing force will be disseminated.
It is hoped that this project can move beyond the pilot phace and can be replicated. If funding or partnerships are found to continue with the project, the first stage is the selection of a community(ies) and the process of involving all the stakeholders and community leaderships. This process is central to ensuring that there is clarity within all the community about the project and its goals and that it will fit in and complement other community objectives and goals. Even if, many community leaders to not actively participate, it is crucial that it be made clear that the doors are open to community leadership and that all have been invited to participate on some level. Afterwards, it is necessary to focus on contacting and working with any sports leaderships within the community which may include any informal, amateur or semi-pro tournaments in the community and any organized teams. Rules and regulations for the tournament need to be very clear and include the participation of the players in the workshops as part of the rules for participation in the games. Lastly, during recruitment, soccer players need to understand the goals of the project and that it is not a simple tournament, but that it has a social objective for the entire community. It is necessary to sell the players on the idea of workshops and make it clear that they are open informal discussions as most will never have participated in a social project and will imagine workshops as boring, formal, classroom-style activities. Clarity about the whole process is fundamental. The greatest attention in the end needs to be paid to the selection of workshop activities and the selection of workshop facilitators. During the course of the three years, constant attempts need to be made to include the soccer players in other project activities, and in the monitoring and evaluation of the project.
If the soccer tournament is not well-organized, it will lose the support of the players. Also, the workshops are fundamental to their participation, so the workshops need to be structured on reflective group discussions which are dynamic and which allow the men to talk about issues they may never have talked about before. If the workshops do not interest men at all then they will drop out from the project or will begin to try to avoid the workshops by any means. Also, if workshop participation is requisite to participation in the tournament, then a very strict and clear procedure for counting participation needs to be implemented. Players will be aware of any other players who somehow are able to avoid workshops and still participate in the games and the tournament and workshop organizers will then begin to lose credibility with the players.
101‐1000
$100 ‐ 1000
Operating for less than a year
Yes
Promundo
More than 5 years
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Promundo participates in the Men for Gender Equity Network of Brazil which also organizes the White Ribbon Campaign in Brazil. All the soccer tournament campaign materials utilize the White Ribbon logo and link to the White Ribbon Campaign, in that way trying to guarantee that there is a direct link to an ongoing active campaign after the project ends. Promundo also has a good relationship with the Women's Public Policy Secretariat of Brazil which is important as one of the goals is to support the recently enacted Domestic Violence Legislation in Brazil (Maria da Penha Law).
1)The evaluation of the pilot project will be needed to determine how well the workshops and campaign worked and where changes need to occur.
2)Partnerships with local or national corporations and sports organizations (including professional players or teams) could help in bringing the project and campaign to a wider audience.
3)The same sports organizations mentioned above need to be open to reflecting on the negative gender stereotypes that are often a part of the sport of soccer and a part of the public lives of many soccer stars.
The defining moment was when we were seeking to find a method to involve more than a hundred men in a four to five month long intervention with weekly workshops and a social campaign. The idea of using the tournament became the best option we could think of to include men, especially older men who do not typically participate in social projects.
Several people at Promundo were involved in the development of this idea. Promundo has historically worked with men (and also women) in the promotion of gender equality and prevention of GBV. This experience was fundamental in constructing and implementing this project.
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