The  Annual  Men's Travelling Conference - a massive awareness campaign conducted by Men for Gender Equality Now! (MEGEN) during the 16 Days - this year has expanded to four routes and shall last seven days. 

Four buses left Nairobi's Uhuru Park headed (one each) to Kenya's  Coast Region, Mt. Kenya/Central Region,  Western/North Rift Region, and Lake Victoria/South Rift Region. And scheduled to stop over in 30 major and medium townships in Kenya and scores of small shopping centre in between.

The 120 activists include MEGEN artists, media practitioners, rapid responders; members of the refugee community(encamped and urban) that have gone through MEGEN's gender training; as well as other perennial partners like the Nairobi Women's Hospital and a few new ones.

Throughout the 7 days, the MTC shall be covered by a number of FM Radio Station through live interviews, discussions around the Engagement of Men and Boys in promoting Gender Equality and elimination of Gender-based violence.

On 14th January, the MTC entered its third day with lots of success stories along the Lakeside towns visited starting from Migori, Awendo, and Homa Bay where the team made the last stop over with crowds waiting great anticipation thanks to Q-FM Radio Station is broadcasting and highlighting of MEGENS work and that team were enroute to town.

The MTC Nyanza route leader Ms. Anne Njehia hailed relationship between the Police, the medical providers and the civil society in ensuring speedy prosecution for perpetrators of Gender-based Violence in the region. Noting that the most prevalent cases were family and clan related, the Officer Commanding the Police in the district, SSP Kimeu, lauded the role of chiefs, local elders and clan elders identifying the perpetrators and ensuring the cases are not interfered with in the family.

From the three towns the western team visited three forms of gender violence came out strongly.

• Early marriages for girls as young as 14years old
• Defilement cases are also very rampant though some of these cases are not repoted and in some situations, the parents get compromised.
• Wife battering is a major concern for it is viewed as a norm of the day; others believe it’s a way of showing love to their spouces and even if reported the same complainants goes back and withdraws the case before it reaches the courts.