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MAMAH challenges harmful gender norms that prevent women and girls from accessing and consuming nutritious foods by:
MAMAH mobilizes & equips religious, cultural, and local leaders (as the custodians of tradition) with the right nutrition knowledge & practices to challenge these harmful norms by fostering community dialogues, promoting positive behavioral change, and advocating for gender-inclusive nutrition practices.
Mobilization of religious, cultural, and local leaders
They hold Focus Group Meetings to bring out the negative gender norms in their communities, and design positive messages to counteract those negative norms. Then they utilize their platforms such as religious sermons or cultural ceremonies to pass on the positive messages created.
Focus Group Meetings
We also organize community radio talk-shows (barraza style) where we mobilize entire villages to dialogue about the negative gender & social norms affecting women & girls nutrition. The community dialogue is also aired out to audiences far and away.
Community radio talk-shows (barraza style)
We organize debates in schools where students discuss and challenge the gender and social norms against girls and women in the communities they live, and ways to eliminate such. This gives hope for gender equality in the generations to come. As somebody said: "When we train the children (today), we will not need to train the adults (in their time)!"
Mobilization of religious, cultural, and local leaders
We train and equip teachers with proper nutrition knowledge, as well as awareness about the negative gender and social norms affecting the nutrition of women and girls so they can utilize the opportunities while they interact with students and parents to pass on the right messages challenging the negative norms.
MAMAH training session with teachers and education officials.