Building sustainable improvements in gender equality for youth through creative engagement in Uganda

该项目将以Plastow以前在乌干达进行的研究（见相关项目）为基础，这些研究不仅表明了与性别不平等有关的严重问题，包括家庭暴力;遗弃儿童;嘲笑强奸女孩;胁迫性行为;而且表明，在参与使用基于艺术的对话方法的方案时，男性和女性都愿意改变他们的观点和行为。这一后续项目是专门针对青年人、教师和公共卫生专业人员以及社区成员的一再要求而制定的，强调强调30.以前的工作集中在金贾市称为Walukuba/Masese的贫民区的学校，利用艺术讲习班与13-16岁的年轻人讨论性健康和生殖健康问题。结果发现，这项工作不仅产生了显著的影响-见支持案例-而且有关性别关系的讨论导致个人、家庭和学校社区发生了重大变化，被认为大大促进了良好的、相互尊重的性别关系。该项目将优先促进平等的性别关系，同时继续促进对性健康和生殖健康问题的理解，如月经、性关系和个人卫生，这些都是更大问题的一部分，但将扩大工作范围，使金贾各地的青年能够参与并长期受益。诗歌和艺术被认为是高度吸引人的（见支持案例），鼓励创造力，批判性思维和享受一个经常具有挑战性的过程，开放给新的思维。因此，我们将扩展这种方法。在全市36所学校工作;首先通过表演/工作坊让年轻人思考性别陈规定型观念、社会规范和他们可能向往的理想，我们将邀请200名来自全市的年轻人参加2为期10天的多艺术讲习班，将联合收割机与利用戏剧、电影、传统和霹雳舞，诗歌，流行音乐和美术，以激发创造性的全市青年艺术参与。第三个讲习班将从前两个讲习班各招收50名年轻人，以同样的形式工作，使他们能够从受训者转变为自己艺术作品的实现者，这将以一个全市范围的金贾青年艺术节为高潮，邀请年轻人聚集在一起，展示他们在性别平等主题上的创造力。这些作品将以各种方式持久存在：公共墙壁上的壁画;流行歌曲将被录制并在当地电台播放;电影、戏剧、舞蹈和诗歌将展出，并在社交媒体上发布。为了支持以青年为中心的活动，我们还将应许多人的要求，为关注青少年健康的教师和公共卫生工作者提供为期两天的培训讲习班，协助他们支持性别平等和开放的沟通和支持城市的青年。所有工作都是根据社区的要求设计的，并将基于进一步的研究研讨会，以便我们可以确保我们最有效地满足当地的具体需求。艺术作品的设计是由一个致力于乌干达和国际艺术家的团队精心策划的，他们近年来都与Plastow合作过相关项目，并且是各自领域的领导者，其中包括舞蹈和流行音乐榜样，他们在与Plastow合作之前的项目中建立了专业的创作生涯。

This project will build on previous research conducted by Plastow in Uganda (see related projects) that has demonstrated not only severe issues related to gender inequalities including domestic violence; abandonment of children; mockery of menstruating girls; coercive sexual behaviours; but also that when engaged in programmes using arts-based, dialogic methodologies both males and females have been open to changing their views and their behaviours. This Follow-On project has been developed specifically to respond to repeated requests by young people, teachers and public health professionals and community members, that this work be built on and extended to further promote gender equality and to challenge many of the damaging essentialist myths about expected male and female behaviours and misinformation in relation to sexual and reproductive health (SRH).Previous work centred on schools in the slum district of the city of Jinja called Walukuba/Masese using arts-based workshops with young people aged 13-16 to discuss issues of SRH. It was found that not only did this work have a notable impact - see Case for Support - but that discussions arising about gender relations led to significant changes in individuals, families and school communities that were perceived to be significantly promoting good, respectful gender relations. This project will privilege the promotion of equitable gender relations, while continuing to promote understanding of SRH issues such as menstruation, sexual relationships and personal hygiene which all form part of the larger issue, but will extend the work to enable youth across Jinja to take part and sustainably benefit over the long term.Our dialogic, arts-based practice, including the use of theatre, film, dance, poetry and art was found to be highly engaging (see Case for Support), encouraging creativity, critical thinking and enjoyment of an often challenging process of opening up to new thinking. We will therefore extend this methodology. Working in 36 schools across the city; first through performance/workshops engaging young people in considering gender stereotypes, social norms and ideals they might aspire to, we will go on to invite 200 young people from across the city to take part in 2 (100 people each) 10-day multi-arts workshops which will combine gender awareness engagement with training in and creation of artworks using theatre, film, traditional and breakdance, poetry, pop music and fine art to stimulate a creative city-wide youth arts involvement. A third workshop will take 50 young people from each of the preceding workshops and work in the same forms to enable them to move from becoming trainees to realisers of their own art works, and this will culminate in a city-wide Jinja Youth Arts Festival where young people are invited to come together to profile their creativity on the theme of gender equality. These works will have a lasting presence in various ways: murals on public walls; pop songs will be recorded and played on local radio; film, theatre, dance and poetry will be exhibited and also released on social media.In support of youth-centred activity we will also, again as a result of many requests, provide 2-day training workshops for teachers and public health workers concerned with adolescent health, to assist them in supporting gender equality and openness in communication and support for the youth of the city. All work has been designed in response to community requests and will be based on further research workshops so that we can be sure we responding most usefully to specific local needs. The design of the artistic work has been carefully planned by a committed team of Ugandan and international artists who have all worked on related projects in recent years with Plastow and are leaders in their fields, including notably dance and pop music role models who have established professional creative careers on the back of working with Plastow in previous projects.