RWAMREC - Rwanda Men's Resource Center

09/10/2026

📻 IKINAMICO Y’URUHEREREKANE | TWUBAKANE – IGICE CYA 2

Twubakane means “Let us build together”, and Season 2 starts on Monday, 12 October 2026, on Radio Rwanda!

Created by NOVAH and RWAMREC, TWUBAKANE follows three neighbouring families through the everyday tensions of family life: money, alcohol, trust, and who makes the decisions. Through their stories, the drama invites listeners to ask: “What would I do?”

Listeners have told us what the drama changed for them:
💬 “Before, my wife could tell me something and I would respond rudely. Now I listen to her and respond respectfully.”
💬 “Instead of arguing, we listen to each other and reach an understanding.”

🗓 Iba buri wa Mbere na buri wa Gatatu (every Monday and Wednesday)
⏰ Saa 18:35–19:00
📻 Ica kuri Radio Rwanda

Listen together as a family in the evening, and tell us in the comments which characters stay with you. 👇

Ubwubahane • Ubwumvikane • Umuryango Mwiza

07/10/2026

🌍 From Rwanda to the World!
Today, Emmanuel Karamage represented RWAMREC at the SVRI Forum plenary session in Bangkok, Thailand, where he presented the scale-up of Bandebereho through the health system.

The session brought together an engaged audience to explore how integrating the Bandebereho approach into health systems can help prevent and reduce violence against women and children.

From evidence to action, Bandebereho demonstrates how proven approaches can be integrated into existing systems to reach more families and support healthier, more equitable relationships at scale.

Rwanda’s experience is contributing to the global conversation on what it takes to bring evidence-based solutions to families and communities.

Equimundo Rwanda Biomedical Centre Rwanda Health Ministry of Gender and Family Promotion-MIGEPROF Sexual Violence Research Initiative Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation Oak Foundation Grand Challenges Canada / Grands Défis Canada Global Innovation Fund

05/10/2026

📣 Tomorrow at in Bangkok!

Our Director of Programs, Gisèle Umutoniwase, joins the panel "What scale-up teaches you" to share lessons from scaling Bandebereho in Rwanda. 🇷🇼

What does it take to interrupt the intergenerational cycle of violence, and keep that change going as a programme grows? Gisèle will reflect on what a decade of adapting, scaling, and sustaining fatherhood programmes has taught us about working with men and couples to build homes free from violence. 💛

🗣 Interrupting the Intergenerational Cycle of Violence: Lessons from a Decade of Adapting, Scaling, and Sustaining REAL Fathers
🗓 Tuesday 6 October 2026
⏰ 7:00–8:50 am (breakfast and coffee from 7:00 ☕)
📍 Lotus 1–4, Centara Grand & Bangkok Convention Centre
🔗 Register: https://bit.ly/4j1z961

If you're at the Forum, come say hello! If you're following from afar, stay tuned for highlights from Bangkok this week.

05/10/2026

This week, RWAMREC's Bandebereho Scale-Up Program is at in Bangkok, Thailand (5–9 October)! 🇷🇼

We're joining researchers, advocates, and change-makers from around the world to share, learn, and strengthen our collective work to prevent gender-based violence and promote positive masculinity.

📍 RWAMREC takes the plenary stage!

On Wednesday, Emmanuel Karamage and Kate Doyle will share how partnering with Rwanda's health system is helping to scale Bandebereho and reduce violence against women and children.

🗣 Plenary II: Taking proven programmes to scale: Lessons from the field
🎙 Emmanuel Karamage, Project Coordinator, Bandebereho, RWAMREC
🎙 Kate Doyle, Senior Associate, The Prevention Collaborative
🗓 Wednesday 7 October | ⏰ 9:00–10:30 am
📍 Plenary Hall, Centara Grand & Bangkok Convention Centre

Follow along this week for updates from Bangkok! 💛

02/10/2026

RWAMREC is hiring a Communication Consultant to reposition Generation Gender as a Kinyarwanda-first youth digital resource hub and to design the 2026 16 Days of Activism campaign on TFGBV and the manosphere. If you have experience in youth-focused communications, digital content strategy and campaign design, apply before 9 October 2026. Read the full Terms of Reference and apply here: https://wix.to/kuuKxar

RWAMREC is recruiting a Communication Consultant to reposition Generation Gender as a Kinyarwanda-first youth digital resource hub under Powered by Women, and to design its 2026 16 Days of Activism campaign on TFGBV and the manosphere. Applications close on 9 October 2026.

01/10/2026

How did a 16‑community pilot become a national programme reaching over 95,000 people? Discover the 10 factors behind the Bandebereho scale‑up in Rwanda’s health system — lessons for practitioners, policymakers, and implementing organisations. Read the brief by RWAMREC and Equimundo. https://wix.to/NwUObNV

A new RWAMREC and Equimundo brief traces the Bandebereho scale-up from a 16-community pilot to a programme delivered by community health workers, now reaching over 95,000 men and women. Here are the ten factors that made it possible – and what other organisations can learn from them.

16/09/2026

Yesterday, RWAMREC, in collaboration with the Rulindo District authorities, officiated a four-day Gender Transformation Approaches Training, bringing together district and health leaders. The training is part of the national scale-up of the Bandebereho programme, which engages men as partners in reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health, caregiving, healthy couple relationships, and violence prevention. Through open dialogue and practical learning, participants discuss how positive masculinity, gender equality, and shared responsibility can strengthen families and build healthier, more inclusive communities.
Grand Challenges Canada / Grands Défis Canada Equimundo Global Innovation Fund Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation Oak Foundation High Impact Athletes IDRC / CRDI

08/09/2026

RWAMREC Q2 2026 Newsletter is out — a quarter of growing partnerships, expanded impact, and scaling life-changing programs across Rwanda. From the national scale-up of Bandebereho to new work in refugee camps, financial empowerment, youth engagement, and community-based GBV prevention, Q2 was about reaching more people and strengthening systems for lasting change. Read the highlights and learn how we’re scaling impact for gender equality: https://wix.to/4OsXsVO

RWAMREC’s April–June 2026 quarterly newsletter is now available, highlighting a quarter of significant progress, growing partnerships, and expanding impact across Rwanda.From the continued national scale-up of Bandebereho to new work in refugee camps, financial empowerment, health, youth engagem...

04/09/2026

🌍 Rethinking care work across Africa — today in Addis Ababa.

RWAMREC's Project Coordinator, Emmanuel Karamage, took the stage at the inaugural Africa Care Forum (September 2–4, 2026) at the African Union Commission Headquarters, sharing Rwanda's experience with Bandebereho — our gender-transformative couples intervention delivered through the community health worker system.

Themed "Placing Care at the Centre of Africa's Development Agenda," the Forum — organized by the AU Commission's Women, Gender and Youth Directorate and partners — spotlighted a stark reality: women and girls carry roughly 70% of unpaid care work across the continent, spending 3.5x more hours on it than men, at an estimated cost of USD 95 billion a year to African economies.

Emmanuel's presentation on engaging men and couples to shift household care dynamics sparked great interest among participants — a reminder that gender-transformative approaches have a real role to play in Africa's care agenda.

African Union Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation Equimundo Grand Challenges Canada / Grands Défis Canada Global Innovation Fund Oak Foundation Global Innovation Fund Global Alliance for Care / Alianza Global por los Cuidados

31/08/2026

RWAMREC is calling qualified consultants to design and implement a National Listenership Survey for Twubakane Season 2. Help measure programme awareness, reach, active listenership and audience experience across Rwanda. Read the full Terms of Reference and submit your proposal: https://wix.to/nw0kjSa

Deadline details and submission instructions are in the full post — please share with qualified colleagues and organisations.

RWAMREC is seeking qualified consultants to design and implement a National Listenership Survey for Twubakane Season 2, measuring programme awareness, reach, active listenership and audience experience across Rwanda.