Four Male Action Groups (MAGs) were established in Tororo and Kampala districts. They served as a platform for mobilizing, engaging with and reaching men and boys with messages on social norm change and gender-transformation.

Over 1,389 men and boys were engaged through Male Action Groups in the programme areas and in turn, as champions for change on gender norms, they played active leadership roles in mobilizing and engaging other men and boys in open discussions and dialogues to address harmful masculinities and promote gender-transformative results. Also, the provision of 15 bicycles to male champions to facilitate GBV risk mitigation, prevention and response outreach enabled them to extend awareness creation on GBV and FGM in communities, leading to 220 Karamojong men to publicly denounce harmful cultural practices and adoption of positive cultural practices such as men sharing in household responsibilities and mobilizing under-aged married girls to return to school. For instance, 20 girls (in Amudat) were rescued from forced and early marriages and taken back to school.