The 12 day intense research training to 17 participants from Uganda, Kenya,
A group photograph of the participants of the 2009 VAW Research training in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Rwanda, South Africa and Sudan ended on a high note last Friday at the Christian Relief and Development Agency (CRDA) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Divided into five groups, the participants had to demonstrate what they had learnt over the two weeks. The results were amazing. Five research protocols were developed. The research topics were as diverse as the faces in the room. Two groups were interested in Masculinities and violence; one group looked at engendering budgets, screening victims of violence against women at health centres and so on.
My group developed a research protocol on “Masculinities and violence: Examining the association between socialisation among boys and the later perpetration of intimate partner violence in Angolala, Ethiopia”
What made our protocol particularly interesting is we opted for a longitudinal study that would examine the attitudes of boys towards VAW at the critical stages of 5-6 years, 14 – 15 years, 19-20 years and finally 29-30 years.
In our protocol, we (read Emmanuel Kabalisa from Rwanda Men’s Resource Centre (RWAMREC), Fairouz Naigia (Resources aimed and Prevention of Child Abuse and neglect (RAPCAN, South Africa ) and I (Icon – Uganda) planned to follow the same boys through these critical stages and talk to the parents, intimate partners and teachers for triangulation. It was rather interesting and ambitious but it also demonstrated how much we had learnt over the couple of weeks. I may post it here sometime.
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