This report examines how Australia can strengthen and better coordinate work with men and boys to prevent gender-based violence. It reports on a national consultation held in Melbourne on 21 May 2024, involving 50 stakeholders from violence prevention, early intervention, response, recovery, and men’s health and wellbeing sectors. The consultation focused on two aspects of prevention infrastructure: coordination, collaboration and quality assurance; and workforce and sector development.
Our Watch
Ending gender-based violence requires preventing it occurring in the first place.
Importantly, this requires work with men and boys, including to challenge the stereotypes and cultures that underpin the drivers of gender-based violence.
This brief is intended to outline policy, regulatory and legislative opportunities for promoting more positive and expansive forms of masculinity and working with men and boys to prevent gender-based violence.
Opportunities outlined in this brief include:
The Men in focus practice guide from Our Watch is designed to support people to address masculinities and work with men in the prevention of men’s violence against women.