PLA REPORT ON YOUNG MEN INITIATIVE IN GBV PREVENTION IN NORTH MACEDONIA

Many initiatives have been raised that contribute to the improvement of the position of women in society, as well as to raise the awareness of the situations that arise due to the suppression of women's rights in society. [...] The main principles of PLA are: To involve people in issue identification and its resolution, and to increase their ability to act on their own behalf; To learn from people and their experiences, and for development experts to “hand over the stick” so that people themselves analyze, present, and determine the outcome of the information that has been collected; To adopt an informal approach and to. [...] The participants agreed that in our society the father has the main role in the family, also the mother but not as much as the father. [...] Here the woman should work at home, cook, the man is the pillar of the house (Gostivar) In the family, for the girls is expected to be more serious, successful in school and disciplined. [...] In addition, in the GEM all the participants agreed about the importance of the fathers’ presence in the lives of the children, but regarding the taking care about the children and partially chores more responsibilities are given to mothers.