According to UNICEF, domestic violence and intimate partner violence are highly prevalent in the Caribbean, with an estimated 45 percent of women in the region experiencing physical or sexual violence in their lifetime.

Co-Director of the Grenada Legal Aid and Counselling Clinic and coordinator of the Man to Man Programme, Tyrone Buckmire is a champion of male to male intervention as a key strategy in addressing domestic and intimate partner violence.

“We’ve had over 700 men referred into the programme. We’ve had 5 hundred and 60 plus of those men meet the criteria for successful completion. There is a regional criteria that says you have to attend these many sessions, your attendance and participation must be such and such in order to be considered a successful applicant.”