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.
CMFD is committed to upholding women’s rights and gender equality, and is a significant consideration in all our projects, from large-scale radio dramas to 2-day workshops. Raising awareness around women’s rights, and the various international, regional and local instruments that are meant to serve women, is one of the priorities in our media development projects. We aim to ensure that the media has the tools they need to engage with women’s and gender issues, and that women and women’s organisations have the capacity to engage with the media.
Score a Goal for Gender Equality
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).
The campaign aims to raise awareness around gender and 2010, using the FIFA World Cup in South Africa as a platform.
At the launch, CMFD was busy conducting interviews with media and gender activists from all over Southern Africa. The interviews are being used to produce a series of five radio features focusing on the five main campaign themes: women and sport; economic opportunities; human trafficking; sex work; and gender, media and sport.
The event began with the launch of issue seven of the Gender and Media Diversity Journal, which examines women, media and sport in 2010. This was followed by presentations from key speakers, including Litha Musyimi-Ogana (pictured at left), Director of Women and Gender for the African Union Commission. Musyimi-Ogana was in Johannesburg on another mission, and made a special point of visiting the launch to address the delegation.
Presentations were followed by a colloquium on the problems and possiblities 2010 poses for women, based on the five key themes. The day concluded with a soccer match between two local women's teams.
To read more about the campaign, visit the Gender Links website.
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"I" Stories 2008 For the third year, CMFD Productions recorded and produced spoken narrations by survivors of gender violence as part of Gender Links "I" Stories project, conducted annually as part if 16 Days to ensure that survivors of violence have the opportunity to have their voices heard. The audio recording complement a print publication and distribution of these stories to media as part of 16 Days coverage. These audio recording are being made available to radio stations, and also included on the Taxi C
Tjoon’in Tjoon’in is a Gender Links production in partnership with Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality and Gauteng Women in Transport, produced by CMFD Productions as part of the 2008 16 Days of Activism campaign for distribution on public transport. The CD is a mix of fun and interesting audio pieces, including spots (PSAs), music, personal testimonies, and reports that raise awareness about various 16 Days themes, particularly gender violence, xenophobia, human trafficking, and men as partners.
As part of the I Stories, some of the women at a Johannesburg workshop recorded parts of their stories for use by radio, telling about their experiences, and offering advice to others experiencing violence. Recorded and produced CMFD (Community Media for development) Productions, the women told their own stories, and also recorded the excuses their abusers gave for violence, reasons why they stayed, and the response from the legal system, which were produced into spots for airplay during 16 Days.
Harriet Nhlapo - Healing on the outside, but still scarred within
Reporting on Women’s Rights in legal frameworks 3 – 7 December 2007, Maputo, Mozambique
Designed and implemented by CMFD and supported by Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, this 5-day workshop brought together 8 women radio journalists from community and national radio stations in Mozambique to build capacity on and create 4 Portuguese-language radio programmes on women's rights within legal frameworks. The Africa Union Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa has been recognised as a continental legal framework for the protection of women’s rights in Africa. The ability of media and journalists to report on the Protocol and other such legal commitments and the issues that they address, is key to ensuring that these rights become a reality on the ground. While there is growing awareness among journalists about women’s issues, there is still significant problems related to how women appear in the media, and few have the knowledge of legal frameworks in place that would make for stronger reporting. Rather than report on women’s rights in an abstract manner, there is a need to build capacity of journalists to report on what leaders have committed to, a as way of holding leaders accountable
UNSC Resolution 1325 and women's rights8 & 9 June 2007, Johannesburg, South Africa
As part of a 5 week conflict resolution training programme organised by COPA and the International Women’s Tribune Centre, CMFD facilitated a training seminar and on-site production in Johannesburg to train advocacy programme officers to use radio to promote women rights and UNSC Resolution 1325. The main objective was to create radio spots to encourage people to stop and think about equal rights, especially related to UNSC 1325, which says that women should play leadership roles in peace-building activities and negotiations. Participants learned how to write radio spots and recorded the spots in CMFD’s mobile studio. CMFD also produced the spots with sfx.
Gender Audio -CMFD recorded Gender Links "I Stories" from survivors of gender violence for 16 Days of Activism 2006. CMFD was also on hand at GL's second Gender and Media Summit to record interviews with participants.
Rural Women & ICT- February 23 - 25, 2004, Johannesburg, South Africa - With the Community Information Network of Southern Africa (CINSA) to record conference delegates speaking about rural women and ICT at "Advancing Rural Women's Empowerment:ICTS in the Service of Good Governance, Democratic Practice and Development for Rural Women in Africa."
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16 Days of Peace Taxi Campaign
Tjoon’in
"I" Story 2007
Designed and implemented by CMFD and supported by Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, this 5-day workshop brought together 8 women radio journalists from community and national radio stations in Mozambique to build capacity on and create 4 Portuguese-language radio programmes on women's rights within legal frameworks. The Africa Union Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa has been recognised as a continental legal framework for the protection of women’s rights in 
