Non-Governmental Organisations Working On Gender And Media In Africa
East Africa
African Woman and Child Feature Service (AWC)
The African Woman and Child Features Service (AWC) is a Nairobi-based media organisation with an African regional outlook. AWC was established in March 1994 with the aim of mainstreaming gender in and through the media for development. Guided by the principle of equal development for women, men and children, AWC disseminates information by way of feature articles, published in mainstream newspapers throughout Africa and beyond, training manuals and hand books, news bulletins, magazines and occasionally audio and video productions for broadcast via radio, television and the internet. All the information disseminated by AWC has a progressive gender perspective. click here
Association of Media Women in Kenya
The Association of Media Women in Kenya (AMWIK) is a national media Association established in 1983 as a non-profit membership organisation for women journalists from the print, electronic media and other areas of communication. The Association was founded prior to the United Nation’s Third World Women’s Conference held in Nairobi in 1985 by women in middle and senior management levels in the media. Its membership comprises employees of various media houses, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and other institutions as well as independent content producers. click here
Tanzania Gender Networking Programme (TGNP)
Tanzania Gender Networking Programme (TGNP) is a non governmental organization working in the civil society sector since 1993. It is an activist organization focusing on the practical promotion and application of gender equality, equity and women’s empowerment objectives through policy advocacy and mainstreaming of gender and pro-poor perspectives at all levels in the Tanzanian society and beyond. click here
Tanzania Media Women’s Association (TAMWA)
The Tanzania Media Women’s Association (TAMWA) is a non-profit sharing, non-governmental and non-partisan organisation. Whereas TAMWA is involved in a number of social transformation interventions, their core approach continues to be media advocacy. Their mission calls them to ensure that media work stimulate communities, policy makers, leaders at different levels, experts in various disciplines, the government, non-governmental organizations, political parties, business communities, religious groups and individual men and women, to take part in the fight against gender based violence and promote women’s development qualitatively. click here
Uganda Media Women’s Association
Uganda Media Women’s Association (UMWA), formed in 1983, is a non-governmental organisation for female journalists from government and private media. The association is voluntary and non-partisan as well as non-profit making. However, with time spent searching for economic sustainability, UMWA stages and carries out activities to generate funds. As an association of professional women journalists, the primary goal is to promote interactive communication and to enhance visibility and status among the less advantaged groups so that equal gender relations can be realized. click here
Southern Africa
Agenda
As a feminist media organisation in Africa, Agenda is committed to giving women a forum, a voice and skills to articulate their needs and interests towards transforming unequal gender relations. They target in particular members of women’s organisations, individuals and organisations interested in gender equality. They aim to question and challenge current understandings and practices of gender relations. They contribute to the development of new knowledge about how gender relations can be transformed. In particular they contribute to the development of women and their capacity to organise themselves, reflect on their experiences and to write about this. click here
E-knowledge for women in Southern Africa (EKOWISA)
E- Knowledge for Women in Southern Africa (EKOWISA) is an innovative regional non-governmental organization (NGO) whose mission is to promote the development of a gender sensitive knowledge society through the effective use of appropriate ICTs at local, national, and regional and international.click here
Federation of African Media Women- Zimbabwe
FAMWZ aims at enhancing the professional and social skills of Zimbabwean media women and sensitising them to their role in social development and communication through all aspects of mass communication. click here
Gender Advocacy Programme
The Gender Advocacy Programme (GAP) is an independent, non-governmental advocacy and lobbying organisation based in Cape Town. They see our position as bridging the gap between women in civil society and structures of governance and to increase the participation of women in policy formulation and decision-making. They conduct research and training in order to facilitate, mobilise, link and empower women to lobby for equity between men and women in all spheres of South African society. click here
Gender Links
Formed in March 2001, GL began its work with a strong focus on “promoting gender equality in and through the media.” This work has two facets: research, training and advocacy for achieving greater gender sensitivity and balance within the media and in its editorial content; as well as strategic communication skills for gender activists and women in decision-making to better access and influence media content. click here
Gender and Media in Southern Africa
Gender and Media Southern African (GEMSA) Network is an umbrella organisation of individual and institutions who work to promote gender equality in and through the media. GEMSA has its roots in the historic Southern African Gender and Media Summit attended by 184 participants from around the region as well as international observers in September 2004. click here
Gender Media Diversity Centre
The GMDC is a physical and virtual resource centre based in Southern Africa, with linkages in Africa and across the globe. The centre envisages media that are diverse, representative, responsive, and professional, and a citizenry, women and men, who are empowered to engage critically with their media. It facilitates the collection, connection and dissemination of information and resources relating to gender, media and diversity. The centre also collaborates on research, education and training. click here
Media Institute for Southern Africa (MISA)
The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) is a non-governmental organisation with members in 11 of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) countries. MISA seeks ways in which to promote the free flow of information and co-operation between media workers, as a principal means of nurturing democracy and human rights in Africa. click here
Media Monitoring Africa
The Media Monitoring Africa formerly the Media Monitoring Project is based in Johannesburg, South Africa. The Media Monitoring Africa monitors the media in order to promote the development of a free, fair, ethical and critical media culture in South Africa and the rest of the continent. click here
PANOS Institute Southern Africa
For more than a decade, Panos Institute Southern Africa (PSAf) has been cultivating an informed and inclusive environment for public policy debate in the region, working with the media and other communicators to enable marginalized populations to play an active role in the decision-making process that drives development. click here
South African National Editor’s Forum (SANEF)
SANEF is a voluntary forum of senior journalists and editors, and journalism trainers, from all areas of the media industry in South Africa. SANEF’s vision is to promote the quality and ethics of journalism, to reflect the diversity of South Africa, and to champion freedom of expression. click here
Southern African Media and Gender Institute (SAMGI)
The Southern African Gender Institute is based in Cape Town. SAMGI promotes human rights by increasing the range of voices heard in Southern Africa through participatory education, advocacy, lobbying and media production to improve the status of women. click here
The Zambia Media Women Association (ZAMWA)
The Zambia Media Women Association (ZAMWA) is an association that draws its membership from women journalists working for various institutions and media organisations. Its programmes are targeted at the plight of the marginalized rural women, and women journalists in particular. ZAMWA endeavours to promote the interest of women, to ensure that they have access to, and actively participate in the media. click here
West Africa
African Women Media Centre
P.O.Box 21186, Dakar, Senegal
Phone: 221 823 86 87
Fax: 221 822 05 40
E-mail: awmc@metissacana.sn
Inter-African Network for Women, Media, Gender and Development (FAMEDEV)
Address: BP 7563
Dakar- Médina
Sénégal
Phone: +221 33 867 59 78
Fax: +221 33 867 59 77
Email: famedev@gmail.com
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