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Gendocracy

SAMGI's programmes are designed to fulfil the communication, gender awareness and critical media needs of the Southern African Region.

The Gendocracy programme aims to build capacity in civil society to participate in building stronger democracies.

Gendocracy Projects

Gender Media and Democracy for Grassroots activists

New Media for Advocacy. Computer Literacy; Computer Enrichment; Basic Web Design – Local and Regional

Gender, Media and Communication course. Getting Smart

Gender Media and Democracy for Journalists. Annual Radio Drama Music Human Rights Concert: Writing skills, Traditional Media (Human Rights ARMeD)

Gender, Media and Democracy

Training in media literacy in various communities in the SADC using Getting Smart, New Media for Advocacy and GenMeDem.

Objective: to train participants in the strategic use of media through participatory workshops.

Outputs: X number of participants trained in 14 countries which will result in a contribution to the Making Waves publication.

regular regional campaigns on gender equity, GBV and women’s rights.

Refugee Help Desk

Using the Getting Smart and other communications training manuals.

Objective: to provide assistance and support through communications training to refugees in the Western Cape.

Outputs: A vulnerable group of people trained in communication and are able to articulate their needs to policy makers.

Contributions of personal stories and opinion pieces of refugees for publication in our newsletter.

Refugees trained to use computers, assisted with their applications for refugee status.

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 26 May 2010 11:08 )

Media Monitoring 2010
Women! Turn up the Volume!
Homeweek
GenMeDem Training

SAMGI is hosting the next Southern African media monitoring project, from Monday 30 August - Sunday 26 September. We have participants from Lesotho, Madagascar, Mozambique, Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Women! Turn up the Volume trains communication officers from various NGOs and CBOs in developing and producing low tech media products (newsletters, banners, t-shirts, posters, etc.) to assist in communicating messages specifically during campaigns.

Part of the SAMGI tradition is to have all her staff members gather in one place for a week per month. During this week we focus on staff development initiatives. Themes for the upcoming homeweeks are Strategic Planning. The next home week is 27^th September - 1^st October.

Training sessions to assist NGOs and CBOs in using the media to communicate with their target groups and beneficiaries. The course focuses on Gender, Media and Democracy and draws from the experiences and needs of the participants attending in addition to the prepared training programme.