Become a Digital champion
The AWiM Volunteering programme is calling members from our community to become ‘Digital Champions’ “A digital volunteer is someone who freely offers to help other people get online and use digital technology. credit: Photo by cottonbro on pexels.com As a Digital Champion, you will be working with members of the AWiM Team towards promoting our events […]
Vacancy: Project Assistant
PROJECT ASSISTANT Start Date: April 04, 2022 Position Type: Fixed Term (April – November 2022) ABOUT THE AFRICA WOMEN IN MEDIA (AWiM) African Women in the Media (AWiM) is a network for African women working in media industries anywhere globally. We aim to impact positively the way media functions in relation to women, and our […]
Meet our #AWiM21 Pitch Zone Awardees: Sarah Mawerere
#AWiM21 Pitch Zone received pitches from incredible media women all over the continent. It is our pleasure to profile Sarah Mawerere, a Ugandan Journalist who won the ‘Science and technology – Enhancing outer space science studies, activities and facilities in Africa’ Category. Read more about Sarah below Tell us/the readers about yourself, your education, job, interests […]
Meet our #AWiM21 Pitch Zone Awardees: Nitasha Ramparsad
AWiM21 Conference produced five winners across five-pitch categories. We present Professor Nitasha Ramparsad Tell us/the readers about yourself, your education, job, interests and what you do for fun I am the founding director of JD Legacy Projects and has over 15 years of experience in Executive and Leadership training. I currently hold a PhD in […]
Webinars
AWiM Photojournalism Project
Overview of project The Agenda 2063 Africa Photojournalism Project, in line with both Africa’s Development Strategy Agenda 2063 and the African Union 2021 Theme “Arts, Culture and Heritage: Levers for Building the Africa We Work” aimed to inspire photojournalists from all across the continent to share powerful images telling Africa’s story from an African perspective […]
AWiM Labour Migration Reporting Awards
Overview of the awards and training This project aimed to establish a network of media professionals covering labour and migration in Africa. To achieve this, the project developed a media award, an online training and resource hub and a research project into the lived experiences of African women journalists covering Labour Migration in Africa. This […]
AWiM/African Union Projects
Overview of our AWiM/AU relationship African Women in Media and the African Union have worked together on a range of projects since 2019. Below is an overview of each of our joint activities towards the empowerment of women in media. Program Areas Number of entries received Number of selected participants/ Number of finalists Photojournalism Awards […]
Africa Photojournalism Awards
The ‘Africa Photojournalism Award invites the submission of images that creatively and artistically address the topic of the future in Africa. The key objective is to identify motifs that show a modern, self-confident, positive-inspiring and artistic view of Africa’s future and the associated themes of youth, innovation, progress and development. The pictures should convey the […]
Africa Photojournalism Awards
The ‘Africa Photojournalism Award invites the submission of images that creatively and artistically address the topic of the future in Africa. The key objective is to identify motifs that show a modern, self-confident, positive-inspiring and artistic view of Africa’s future and the associated themes of youth, innovation, progress and development. The pictures should convey the […]
