African Women in Media (AWiM) is an INGO creating an enabling environment for African women working in media through various capacity building programs. The organisation engages several consultants based on the activities being carried out. AWiM has a proven track record of delivering online training and producing quality content, exemplified by our 2020 Risk Communication and Community Engagement Programme with UNESCO (Dar es Salaam) through the IPDC framework
About the Enhancing the capacity of African female journalists on reporting peace and security
AWiM and Fojo’s 2020 research found gender inequality a barrier to career development and capacity building. 74% of the respondents in our pre-training surveys indicate not having gender-specific training, and 50% did not feel confident in their reporting skills in the areas proposed in this project. The Global Media Monitoring Report indicates that women represent 24% of people seen, read or heard in the news. A 2020 report by UNEP revealed that the gendered dimensions of environmental issues, the impact of gender norms and power, receive little attention, with implications on countries’ abilities to achieve SDGs. Organisations like the WILPF have highlighted the importance of media in challenging social prejudices on women’s capacity to contribute to peacebuilding and changing patriarchal narratives in media.
Against this empirical situation, the ‘Enhancing Capacity of female journalists on reporting peace and security’ aims to build the capacity of African women journalists to apply solutions journalism to reporting on women’s issues in peace and security. Solutions journalism is an innovative approach to reporting that focuses in-depth on a response to a problem and how the response works in meaningful detail.
This project was done through capacity training of selected journalists in the following areas;
- Solutions reporting of peace and security and
- Reporting gendered angles of peace and security
Benefits of the Project
- Gain mastery of the designed courses; Solutions reporting of peace and security and reporting gendered angles of peace and security
- Conducted the online training of 100 African women journalists via awimlearning.com.
- Five trainees were selected from the 100 trainees to be mentored as fellows for four months and develop content relevant to the training areas
- Have your work featured in a digital anthology that brings together the content produced by the fellows under this program
