Rural Women's Movement/
Indiba-Africa
Durban, South Africa
19
- 26 August 2007.
In
collaboration with the Rural Women's Movement and Indiba-Africa,
an 8-day training took place from 19 - 26 August 2007. Over the course
of the workshop, women from rural communities in Kwa-Zulu Natal and a
representative from the Centre for PublicParticipation planned,
researched, conducted interviews, wrote scripts and created a series of
features covering a range of issues such as evictions of widows from
their marital homes, women’s inheritance rights and the impact of
HIV/AIDS, sexual violence against girl children, forced/arranged
marriages, young women and employment and grandmothers and orphans -
all issues that receive little mainstream media attention. Each had
never made a radio programme before. The programmes will be made
available to local radio stations, as well as being distributed over
the internet as ‘podcasts’.The workshop is part of the UmNyango
Project, an innovative project
to use ICTS to promote and protect the human
rights of rural women in KwaZulu Natal.
From left to
right, top to bottom: Ayanda transcribing interviews; Sizani and Daniel
recording, Senzo busy scripting, The Mercury journalist Omeshnie Naidoo
hearing about rural women's issues;.
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FAHAMU
Kenya
Nairobi, Kenya
7 – 13
October, 2007
From 7 –
13 October,CMFD worked with women in Nairobi to plan, research, conduct
interviews, write scripts and create an hour-long programme on women’s
rights. Over the course of the workshop, almost one hour of
programming was created that explores women and governance. Each
of the participants gained knowledge not only in making audio/ podcast
programmes, but also in interviewing and
research. This topic is particularly important at this time as Kenya
heads towards theupcoming
December elections.
Putting women and gender on the political agenda is key to ensuring
that women’s issues and rights find a place in political campaigning,
and also that women gain greater representation, not just in government
but also in various levels of decision making. As such, it is key that
media be used to ensure that the views of a wide variety of women,
particularly those who do not have
access to media is important.
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Muloma
Women's
Development Association
Kenema, Sierra Leone
Overview From 13 – 28
November, CMFD was in Kenema,
Sierra Leone
to work with members of the Muloma Women’s Development Association.
Over the course of 8 days the group planned, researched, conducted
interviews, wrote scripts and created 3 feature programmes on pregnancy
and access to health care, early marriages and theft in the community.
Formed in 1996 by disadvantaged women in Nongowa Chiefdom, Kenema
District, MUWODA assists women and children in the war-torn Eastern
region of Sierra
Leone. The goal of the training was to
produce radio programme(s) that can be podcast through the FAHAMU
podcasts, broadcast via radio, and used in discussion groups, around
women’s rights and issues affecting rural women, while also encouraging
the women to express themselves and raise issues through the
media.
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