Deconstructing Caribbean Masculinity to End Domestic Violence

The United Nation's Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)'s Partnership for Peace Program (PFP) was established in 2005 to safeguard the rights of women by reducing the prevalence of domestic violence and risky behavior patterns among Caribbean men. This poster presents preliminary results of an ongoing two-year research project that evaluates the PFP program and its use of a Caribbean-specific intervention model. Our analysis is based on a mix-method approach that compares the impact of previous and current men, their partners and several community stakeholders. As global public health program evaluators, we describe specifically how men embark on a recovery process to reconfigure their masculinity with new life skills that illustrates how to eliminate the use of violence and embrace healthy behavioral practices. The results of this evaluation will facilitate the importance of the recovery process in protecting the health and well being of women and families in the legal system.