Peer Learning Sessions: Call for submissions for 2025 now open
The MenEngage CoLab has opened a call for submissions for its member-led Peer Learning sessions in 2025.
The MenEngage CoLab is a series of opportunities for cross-learning among members and partners of MenEngage Alliance globally. The member-led peer learning sessions, showcasing promising examples of gender transformative approaches, seek to facilitate cross-learning and exchange between members and partners involved in this work.
Goals of the CoLab peer learning sessions include:
- raising awareness of promising practices;
- strengthening capacities;
- exchanging lessons learnt; and
- inspiring further innovative approaches for transforming patriarchal masculinities and working with men and boys for gender equality, LGBTIQ+ rights and social justice.
Guidelines for a CoLab peer learning session
Throughout 2025, the CoLab peer learning sessions will be open to submissions that share lessons learned, challenges and impacts/results of the work they are doing around men and masculinities, including (but not limited to) programs, campaigns, advocacy, partnerships and movement building to advance the vision of transforming masculinities for gender justice, human rights, LGBTIQ rights, climate justice, economies of care, peace and security, and social justice.
Submissions must be aligned with the mission of MenEngage Alliance, as well as its Accountability Framework.
Sessions should share lessons learned from both failures and challenges, as well as successes, results and impacts. Organizers are encouraged to work with relevant partners (which can include non-members of MenEngage Alliance). For example, a session could present the results of a collaboration between researchers and practitioners. Organizers are also encouraged to present interconnected themes.
Call for submissions for 2025 now open
Any member of MenEngage Alliance may submit an idea for a session. Your submission allows us to understand the work you want to share so, please take time to complete the relevant form thoughtfully.
Sessions will be held once per month. Once your submission has been reviewed, a member of the Global Secretariat of MenEngage Alliance will contact you to discuss it further if your submission is successful.
CoLab sessions so far
From 2023, when we started, till 2024 we held 13 sessions that spoke to strengthening youth leadership in our work, strategies that spoke to preventing and eliminating violence against women and girls, and shared some innovative artistic methods for engaging men and boys for gender justice.
From working listening to youth leaders on developing leadership models that do not reinforce the same patriarchal ways of organizing (session with Youth Reference Group members of MenEngage Alliance) to creating live storytelling and community dialogue events to promoting healthy masculinities and gender justice (session with Men’s Story Project), the CoLab session engaged with our members from across the globe.
Explore all of the sessions we had by clicking here.