1. Sonke Gender Justice: Mobilising Men for Gender Justice
Dean Peacock
Founder and Executive Director 1

2. Established in August 2006, with 100 women and men working together in South Africa, 20 African countries and across the world from Johannesburg, Cape Town, Gugulethu, and Bushbuckridge to promote gender justice, democracy and human rights. 2

3. Community Education and Mobilisation Policy Development and Advocacy
Sonke recognises that social change requires multifaceted approach and employs five programme areas:
Community Education and Mobilisation
Policy Development and Advocacy
Communications
International Programmes
Organisational Development
Research and M&E 3

4. High levels of men’s violence against women, men and children, HIV and AIDS, and social and structural drivers, including inequality, unemployment, and some men’s resistance to change.
But also enormous potential and tradition of activism, change and commitment to human rights, including in our constitution.

5. Sonke workshops a starting point for community mobilisation and activism, not an end-goal

6. Community Mobilisation Case Studies

7. Equality Court Case against Julius Malema

8. Equality Court Case against Julius Malema

9. Challenging the Traditional Courts Bill
Does the proposed policy respect and support individual rights?
Does the policy incorporate lessons learned from evaluated interventions? If not, what are the hypothesized outcomes of the policy? What evidence is there to support this policy?
Does the policy take into consideration an understanding of how manhood and womanhood are defined or socially constructed in a particular setting?
Does the policy consider gender and masculinities in an analysis of social exclusion that takes into account the other realities, identities and difficulties in men’s and women’s lives?

10. Community Mobilisation for Justice, Primary GBV Prevention and National Strategic Plan on GBV

12. Bushbuckridge Community Mobilisation RCT

14. Advocacy for a GBV NSP