On December 10, 2009, CMFD participated in the launch of a new campaign, Score a Goal for Gender Equality, spearheaded by Gender Links and the Gender and Media Diversity Centre (GMDC).
Radio for Peacebuilding Africa recently awarded CMFD's six-part serial drama Crossroads winner of the Radio for Peacebuilding Africa Awards Special Category.
Rural Women's Radio - South Africa, Kenya, Sierra Leone
Rural Women's Movement/ Indiba-Africa Durban, South Africa19 - 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 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 interviewingand 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.
uloma 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.
In collaboration with the Rural Women's Movement and Indiba-Africa
From 7 – 13 October,CMFD worked with women in 
Overview From 13 – 28 November, CMFD was in