The Role of the Men Opposed to Violence Against Women Everywhere (MOVE) Program in Addressing Violence Against Women: An Impact Study in Quezon City
Brayan Jay I. Julian | Matthew Werner L. Lagasca | Bernandino P. Malang | Jocelyn DS. Malang
Discipline: Education
Abstract:
Violence Against Women (VAW) is a very widespread problem with no age, cultural, or socioeconomic limitations. Under the Republic Act No. 9262, VAW encompasses psychological, sexual, physical, and eco-nomic abuse among intimate relations, dating relations, or between the persons that share a common child. In response to this, the Que-zon City organized the Men Opposed to Violence Against Women Eve-rywhere (MOVE) Program that involved using men as a gender equal-ity agent. This paper evaluated the effect of MOVE on awareness, atti-tudes, behavior, and community involvement of men on VAW. In a mixed-methods approach, 162 subjects were interviewed in MOVE sub-chapters in Quezon City Hall. Quantitative outcomes revealed an awareness increase of 35.1 in the form of VAW calculated between the mean scores before and after the program. The best outcomes were in learning about survivor support services and such concepts like toxic masculinity. Attitudinally, the participants strongly opposed vi-olence, as they agreed that they should never hit their partner. There was also a high level of involvement in the program, 60.9% of the re-spondents said they were actively participating and working to revive the MOVE Quezon City Hall chapter. In spite of these gains, there are still challenges, such as the lack of community support and continued interest which can be an obstacle to the greater inclusion of males in the prevention of VAW. The results in general suggest that the MOVE Program can be successfully used to improve knowledge, encourage non-violent values, and boost male involvement in gender equality programs. Combating awareness and behavior, MOVE promotes so-cial change in the long term, promotes fair relations, and transforms community attitudes towards violence against women. These findings underscore the need to have government-backed programs to proactively engender men as gender justice advocates and gender jus-tice agents in preventing VAW.
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