Tag: Opportunities

Agenda 2063 Africa Photojournalism Award

The Agenda 2063 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 message that Africa is a […]

AWiM and UNESCO Empowered and Researched East African Women Journalists During COVID-19

Online training was not one of our goals for 2020. Nor did we envision training a whopping 200 East African women on six courses. But then the world did not imagine that COVID-19 would become a pandemic. With the support of UNESCO, within the International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) framework, we were […]

Bravo AWiM! You are the Dose I’ve Been Looking For by Beatrice Dama Kahindi

My story started late at night when I received a late night call from my superior which I was tempted to ignore as I was so sleepy thought it was my wake up alarm. Little did I know that it was a wakeup call for me. He asked me to try and apply for the […]

If they are unable to see your work; it doesn’t mean you are worth nothing! by Joyce Wangui Wachira-Kangema

“Life is a test, never give up” Journalism is not for a faint heart! Every Female journalists around the world has a story to tell about the terrible ordeal they (have) had been through while in the line of their duties. Some say they missed opportunities, promotions or those ‘big’ assignments because they said no […]

To Think I Almost Missed #RCCE2020

To think I almost missed this training!   I heard about AWiM’s RCCE programme through a forwarded WhatsApp message in one of the groups I am in. The lady who forwarded it wrote: “guys jaribuni” translated as “guys try your luck.” I applied for the training immediately, then I also forwarded the link to a friend to try her luck. I am on a maternity leave, and both electric and internet services at my place had been interrupted for almost a week. […]

How #RCCE2020 Changed my Perspective on Safety by Ann Ndung’u

Safety to me used to be just about physical safety, however that perspective has been broadened via the #RCCE2020 Training of which I am a participant. During my internship period, I faced one of what I can now say were threats but at the time, I did not understand what was happening around me, and I thought that has to happen in every working […]

Gender Bias and the Media Woman

“I raise my voice not so I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard. We cannot succeed when half of us are held back.,” Malala Yousafzai.  Gender bias is a preference or prejudice toward one gender over the other. Bias can be conscious or unconscious, and may manifest in many ways, both […]

Meet the #RCCE2020 Trainers

The #RCCE200 project from African Women in Media in partnership with UNESCO under the framework of the IPDC is pleased to present the trainers for the Risk Communication and Community Engagement training. Meet the trainers;  Trainer: Ruona Meyer  Bio: Ruona Meyer is an Emmy-nominated, multimedia journalist with 17 years’ experience in print, radio, wire agency, TV and digital outlets across […]

Project #RCCE Launches Today and Participants are Thrilled about what’s to come

African Women in Media (AWiM), in partnership with UNESCO under the framework of the IPDC announces the kick off/ launch of the Risk Communication and Community Engagement project (RCCE) today, July 1, 2020.   This project which received applications from over 600 female journalists from Eastern Africa with interest in the areas of health/risk communication and community engagement in light of the Covid 19 global pandemic. The […]

VACANCY: Media and Communications Officer

As we move close to the fourth conference scheduled for July 29-31 in South Africa (here’s the concept of AWiM 2020 [PDF] )we are delighted at the realization that the AWiM family is growing. Therefore, we invite applications for a qualified person for a full-time role of a Media and Communications Officer! The officer, who […]