Understanding and Challenging Stigma toward ... - Pact Cambodia

A4
Naming Stigma and
Discrimination toward
Men Who Have Sex with Men
in Different Places
Facilitator’s Note:
In this exercise participants describe stigma and discrimination toward men
who have sex with men (MSM) in specific places, e.g., home, school, clinic,
community, workplace, public spaces, police station, pagoda, etc.
This exercise is designed primarily for health care providers, NGO and CBO staff,
police, and the community. They may not be aware of these examples of stigma so
you may want to invite a few MSM to join the session and help the health care
providers, police, and community to identify examples of stigma in each of the
places.
The next exercise (A5) is a follow-on to this exercise. Make sure to save the outputs
from A4 to use in A5 and plan for enough time for both exercises to be completed
in sequence.
Extra Tips for Facilitators:
The number of flipchart stations/categories depends on the number of
participants and the amount of time you have. With a large group you will
need many stations/categories so that the groups are not too large. (For this
activity it is good to keep the group size four or less.)
Example: 24 participants – eight groups of three people.
In introducing this exercise tell groups which direction to move so there is no
confusion when you blow the whistle to ask groups to move to the next station.
The rotational brainstorm is fun, but the real learning comes in the debriefing,
so make sure you allow enough time/energy for this.
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