This study was produced in the framework of the Regional Programme on Sexual and Reproductive Rights of Palestinian,Jordanian,and Lebanese Women in Vulnerable Situations,a project of Alianza por la Solidaridad (ApS),Health Work Committees (HWC),with the participation of NE-SI and the rest of the partners of the regional intervention: UHWC,WATC,PARD and AWO. The programme is funded by the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) and co-funded by the Basque Government Aid Agency. It aims to “ensure sexual and reproductive rights and other related rights of women in the Middle East on the basis of gender equality.”

The research explores the relationship between men,masculinities,sexuality,reproduction,and rights in the three above-mentioned states. We discuss ways of understanding these relationships,and study the engagement of men in SRHR programmes. We defend the argument that effective work on engaging men in SRHR through a rights-based approach needs to actively seek the transformation of gender and other socially constructed roles.