Resources to make your programme more accessible
FOMEN Capacity Building Programme and Toolkit
The Capacity Building Programme and Toolkit were designed for organisations already working with men from diverse cultural backgrounds. It's goal is to enable them to address gender-based violence in a culturally sensitive way and to support organisations that do not normally focus on this topic in providing violence prevention workshops. The documents are available in English, Croatian, German, Greek, Italian and Spanish.
Read the Capacity Building Programme and Toolkit here
FOMEN Education Intervention Programme and Toolkit
The "Leaders of Change" Education Intervention Programme and Toolkit was written to work directly with men from diverse cultural backgrounds. It offers moduls to do violence prevention work with the men and create community leaders who can carry their knowledge into their communities. The documents are available in English, Croatian, German, Greek, Italian and Spanish.
Read the Education Intervention Programme and Toolkit here
FOMEN Quality Standards
The FOMEN project focusses on innovative approaches in preventing gender-based violence in work with from diverse cultural backgrounds. This paper compiles quality standards in gender sensitive and intercultural violence preventive work. The document is available in English, Croatian, German, Greek, Italian and Spanish.
FOMEN Manual
With this manual we present a practice-oriented guide for facilitators on the implementation of intervention and education programs to provide gender-sensitive violence prevention services for men from culturally diverse backgrounds. The document is available in English, Croatian, German, Greek, Italian and Spanish.
Webinar: Working with(in) Migrant Populations
This introductory webinar addresses the issues of Male Violence against Women and Girls within and by migrant, refugee and ethnic minorities groups in Europe. It covers the major concepts, definitions and analytical framework that was developed by feminist migrant women organisations and introduces the major challenges, risks and misconceptions in the area of prevention and protection.
Watch the webinar here
Webinar: Perpetrator work with(in) migrant populations – A perspective on anti-racist and culturally sensitive approaches
The webinar explores the following questions:
- How can we address gender equality within migrant populations without risk of cultural stigmatization and marginalization?
- How can we engage religious leaders and create community leaders?
- What are appropriate training methods facilitators need when working with the migrant and refugee populations?
- How can we implement community-based perpetrator interventions?
Furthermore, participants gained insights on culturally appropriate methods when working within migrant and refugee populations and challenged their own biases in anti-racism reflections.
Expert paper "Responding to diverse ethnic communities in domestic violence perpetrator programmes"
In her essay, Thangam Debbonaire questions the concept of singular ethnic identity in working with perpetrators of domestic violence. Nevertheless, knowledge about cultural beliefs and attitudes of the diverse ethnic groups is helpful in practical work. She therefore proposes an approach to working cross-culturally with a range of people from diverse ethnic communities, with awareness of specific practical needs such as language and immigration barriers combined with understanding of how culture is many layered and includes cultures of masculinity.
Click here to get full access to the essay
Expert Paper: Working with(in) migrant populations
In this expert essay, two perpetrator programmes from the UK share their experiences engaging with Polish and Urdu/Hindi speaking communitites. Asia Bartsch, Rory Macrae and Kasia Zalewska from Safer Families Edinburgh and Viji Rajagopalan, Garima Jhamb, Bhupinder Virdee, Suzanne Dean and Liz Ostrowski from DVIP show different risk factors and problems they face, as well as the benefits perpetrators and their partners reap from participating in the programmes.
Click here for full access to the essay.
WWP EN Guidelines: Working with Male Migrants & Refugees in Perpetrator Work
We wrote these guidelines for facilitators who have already successfully completed training on perpetrator work and violence against women. We do not recommend the use of these guidelines if you have not already received training on working with men who use violence in intimate relationships, as well as on gender-based violence against women.
To download the guidelines, please follow this link.
WWP EN Policy guidelines for work with men with migrant backgrounds
In these guidelines by Isotta Rossoni, she lays out useful recommendations for stakeholders working on issues of sexual or gender-based violence (SGBV) with men with migrant backgrounds. Read the guidelines here
Annual Conference 2021: Migration & Barriers to Perpetrator Work
In 2021, we focused on promoting safe, accountable and effective work with perpetrators of domestic and/or sexualised violence who have a migration background. More specifically, we addressed the issues facing practitioners in the field when overcoming language and cultural barriers at the same time as upholding anti-racist and trauma sensitive practices.
