This manual is part of a Gender Sensitive Training Package, which aims to be a resource for trainers who want to encourage more gender sensitive reporting in the southern African media. Along with teaching activities, notes, and ideas for practical exercises, the manual provides suggestions for additional reading materials. Though the manual can stand alone, the reading materials and the manual are meant to be mutually supportive and the publishers suggest that trainers need the reading materials to implement a knowledge-based in-depth course.

The package was produced as part of the training component of UNESCO's Media Development Project in Mozambique. The publishers suggest that the manual be used to organise an eight-day course that could be adapted and/or implemented anywhere. Each day of the course focuses on a specific subject area, and each day is divided into four sessions which include: patriarchy, concepts of gender, customs and tradition, gender division of labour in the media, and gender-sensitive reporting.