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Most of CMFD's projects include some element of training. The activities outlined below are short training sesssions and consultations that CMFD has conducted outside of longer term projects.

Reporting on Women’s Rights in legal frameworks

3 – 7 December 2007, Maputo, Mozambique

MozfocusgroupDesigned 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 3 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.

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Education
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Taxi driver


Power Reporting
1 – 8 September 2007, Johannesburg, South Africa
As an add on activity to build on the Power Reporting Workshop held in Johannesburg 3-5 September to improve investigative journalism coverage in the region, on behalf of KAS CMFD Productions worked with a selection of journalists from Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, and Malawi to produce audio programming around the ideas generated by the workshop. This included facilitating a planning workshop, providing voice recorders, daily editorial meetings of the course of the interview day, providing studio recording and production. The group produced two English programmes. The first focuses on the state of investigative journalism in Africa, based on information and interviews from the presenters and participants in the 3-day PRW. The second explores migration to South Africa based on interviews in the community.

Investigative
Journalism Programme
 

Migration Programme

Radio Magazines
July to 3 August 2007, Sao Tome & Principe
The aim of the two-week training was to plan and create high quality produced programming that would address issues important to the target audience in the Sao Tome communities, while also building the knowledge  and technical capacity of staff to maintain this type of programming.  As a new radio station, there was a need to conceptualise and create new programmes to address issues identified as important for the community, and build the capacity of the staff to be able to continue these programmes forward. Based on the strategic planning process, ideas for a number of new programmes were identified. Over the course of the training five such new Portuguese programmes were created.
Local economics  – Looking at local economy.

Local language – each edition       focuses on a few words in local language, exploring meaning and history, speaking to older people, to keep alive the local language.
Education – focusing on the education needs of the community and related issues.

Culture – to keep alive awareness and appreciation for local culture.

Children – focusing on the rights of children and issues affecting them.
Media Literacy  for learners
25 June 2007, Orange Farm, South Africa
CMFD worked with Gender Links to facilitate a group of five students to create radio programs about caregivers working with people living with HIV. The Let Us Grow Project is made up of caregivers who visit those in the community living with HIV/AIDS. They help to bathe and feed those that are bed-ridden. They also go to them to give them their anti-retroviral treatment at the times required for the medication. The learners accompanied the caregivers while doing their rounds around the area.  CMFD was there to work with the students to capture their stories on audio. CMFD helped the learners to produce a radio documentary, called Youth Speak. The process began with selecting the stories they thought they could tell the best. The stories were scripted and turned into radio material. The learners’ stories were recorded, mixed with ambience recorded around Orange Farm and blended with music. The end product was a multi-lingual radio documentary exploring the lives of those affected by HIV/AIDS in Orange Farm.

Orange Farm (audio only)

Media literacy digital story
UNSC Resolution 1325 and women's rights
 8 & 9 June 2007, Johannesburg, South Africa
iwtc 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 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.
Radio Despertar Strategic Planning
April 2007; Vianna, Angola: CMFD director Daniel Walter traveled to Vianna, 20 km outside of Luanda, in Angola, to lead a three-day strategic planning and training workshop for about 25 staff members and volunteers of the recently re-launched independent radio station, Radio Despertar. In order to ensure Radio Despertar can effectively transform itself into a private, independent, commercial broadcast medium for the community, German-based Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS), is supporting the station through a planning and training process that aims to strengthen the station and establish a solid foundation before moving forward.
Soul Beat Africa - April 2007; Johannesburg, South Africa: Former Project Manager of Soul Beat Africa, CMFD Director Deborah Walter faciliatated a four-day writing and editorial capacity buildign workshop, and drafted a set of editorial guidlines for the website.