Sections

Fight Fistula! Campaign

aventh — Tue, 06 May 2008 08:00:42 -0700

Fight Fistula! Campaign

Country

Ethiopia

Programme Summary

The Fight Fistula! Campaign, initiated under the German Foundation for World Population's (DSW) Youth-to-Youth programme, intends to reach both men and women in East and West Gojam in Ethiopia. The project uses trained nurses and former fistula sufferers, who are trained as peer educators, to reach people in the region with reproductive health information and improved health facilities. The project involves home-to-home visits, peer-to-peer learning in youth clubs, and mass edutainment.

African Network of Environmental Journalists (ANEJ)

nombuso — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 01:14:23 -0700

African Network of Environmental Journalists (ANEJ)

Region

Africa

Programme Summary

The African Network of Environmental Journalists (ANEJ) is an organisation that seeks to promote public understanding of environmental issues in Africa by improving the quality, accuracy, and intensity of environmental reporting. The organisation, whose motto is "the voice of the African environment", aims to increase the coverage of environmental issues in the media in Africa and to enhance the capacity of African journalists to report on environmental issues through workshops, networking, information sharing, and institutional development. Specific objectives include:

mainstreaming environmental journalism in Africa;
enhancing the capacity of African journalists to deal with existing and emerging environmental challenges;
disseminating relevant information on environmental issues in Africa;
promoting web journalism on environment and sustainable development in Africa;
influencing decision making processes with regard to environmental policies in Africa; and
disseminating information on the activities implemented by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and other relevant institutions, organisations, and governments.

OneLove Campaign - Tanzania

aventh — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:21:50 -0800

OneLove Campaign - Tanzania

Country

Tanzania

Programme Summary

In October 2008, the Femina Health Information Project (HIP) launched the Onelove campaign in Tanzania to raise public awareness about issues surrounding multiple concurrent sex partners in an effort to curb the spread of HIV/AIDS. The campaign forms part of the OneLove regional initiative which is being rolled out across Southern Africa in Swaziland, Lesotho, Namibia, Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. The Onelove campaign in Tanzania focuses on the need for couple communication and involves special focus segments in the Fema TV Talk Show and in magazines, as well as billboards, roadshows, and radio spots.

Onelove Campaign Lesotho

aventh — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:07:52 -0800

Onelove Campaign Lesotho

Country

Lesotho

Programme Summary

The Onelove campaign in Lesotho was launched in January 2009. It forms part of regional Onelove campaign which focuses on multiple concurrent partnerships (MCP) identified as one of the key drivers of the HIV pandemic in Southern Africa. The Lesotho campaign activities include a radio and a television talk-show, public service announcements (PSAs), a radio drama , and booklets and billboards. The campaign is run by Phela Health and Development Communications along with C-Change and its member organisations Soul City, Social Surveys, and Care.

Onelove Campaign - Swaziland

aventh — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 23:40:53 -0800

Onelove Campaign - Swaziland

Country

Swaziland

Programme Summary

The national Onelove Campaign in Swaziland, led by National Emergency Response Council on HIV/AIDS (NERCHA) and rolled out through Lusweti Institute of Health and Development, seeks to reduce HIV prevalence by decreasing the number of people engaging in multiple concurrent partnerships (MCP). In order to discourage MCPs, the campaign aims to highlight the dangers of MCP, promote positive dating patterns and good relationships, encourage single partner relationships, build self efficacy by showing life examples of good relationships and positive dating patterns, and counter negative relationship role modeling prevalent in Swaziland. The 5-year campaign, which forms part of a larger Southern African regional Onelove campaign, was launched in March 2009 and will run until 2012. The campaign activities include television and radio talkshows, public service announcements, outdoor media, public dialogues, a media competition, and a business sector component.

Super Buddies

aventh — Fri, 09 May 2008 02:36:41 -0700

Super Buddies

Country

Swaziland

Programme Summary

Super Buddies Club, a non-profit organisation working with children and youth between the ages of 5 and 25 years in Swaziland, seeks to work towards a society free of HIV and AIDS, abuse, violence, and exploitation. The Super Buddies Club project initially started with the Super Buddies magazine in 2003, which led to the formation of Super Buddies Clubs in 2007, and "Ses'khona", a radio programme led by children, in 2009. The magazine, clubs, and radio programme are designed to provide platforms where children and youth can share views on issues affecting them, model positive behaviour, and empower each other with life skills, as well as create awareness about children's rights.

100 Dúvidas (100 Doubts)

aventh — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 03:48:19 -0700

100 Dúvidas (100 Doubts)

Country

Angola

Programme Summary

Launched in July 2009, 100 Dúvidas (100 Doubts) is a BBC World Service Trust programme, produced in collaboration with Trocaire and Radio Ecclesia, which is designed to improve government accountability and give a voice to citizens in Angola. The project, which will run until January 2011, seeks to promote debate, discussions, and understanding between government authorities and citizens through an interactive weekly radio programme and the project website.

The Omaheke Health and Education Programme (OHEP)

aventh — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 02:57:27 -0700

The Omaheke Health and Education Programme (OHEP)

Country

Namibia

Programme Summary

The Omaheke Health and Education Programme (OHEP), supported by Oxfam, worked in the sparsely populated area of Omaheke in Namibia to reach mainly the mobile San population. The community-based health initiative sought to decentralise tuberculosis (TB) control services by focusing on a primary health care system where outreach activities as well the active participation of the community were used to help treat TB patients, educate communities, and identify potential TB patients requiring treatment.

Safe from Harm Parent/Child Interpersonal Communication Programme

aventh — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:46:25 -0700

Safe from Harm Parent/Child Interpersonal Communication Programme

Countries

Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Programme Summary

The Safe from Harm Parent/Child Interpersonal Communication (IPC) Programme, initiated by Population Services International (PSI) and AIDSMark in 2005, is based on the fact that parent/child communication has been shown to be a key factor in delaying sexual activity and in reducing risky sexual behaviour amongst youth. Through training sessions, Safe from Harm intends to equip parents with the knowledge and skills to increase the amount and quality of in-home sex education and to provide adolescents with communication skills. The project, currently being implemented in Rwanda, South Africa, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, works with different organisations in each country to train interpersonal communication (IPC) facilitators to work with parents and youth. In so doing, Safe from Harm seeks to:

equip parents with knowledge and skills to talk to their children about reproductive health, HIV, and life in general;
give adolescents the opportunity to enhance life-skills and HIV risk perception;
provide parents and youth with a forum in which to build these skills; and
encourage adolescents to delay sexual debut and/or adopt other safer sexual behaviours.

Radio Alternative Voice for Gambians (AVG)

aventh — Wed, 07 May 2008 00:10:55 -0700

Radio Alternative Voice for Gambians (AVG)

Country

Gambia

Programme Summary

Radio Alternative Voice for Gambians (AVG) was initiated by individual Gambians and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) interested in human rights and freedom of expression. Its main objective is to provide the Gambian people with an alternative means of accessing information that is impartial and independent. AVG's online radio programming is offered in English, Mandingka, and Wollof.

Malawi Community Radio Project

aventh — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:32:39 -0700

Malawi Community Radio Project

Country

Malawi

Programme Summary

Established in 2006, the Malawi Community Radio Project is an initiative by the American Institutes for Research (AIR), Radio Systems Inc. (RSI), and the Creative Centre for Community Mobilisation (CRECCOM) of Malawi, supported by seed funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). This project includes the establishment of the Mchinji Community Radio Station, as well as the production of the programme M’mudzi Mwathu. The project was designed to reach people in Mchinji with messages promoting abstinence and being-faithful in the fight against HIV/AIDS, mobilise communities to support education for orphans and vulnerable children (OVCs), and promote care for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHAs).

Straight Talk Foundation (STF) Avian Influenza Radio Campaign

dheimann — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 13:14:53 -0700

Straight Talk Foundation (STF) Avian Influenza Radio Campaign

Country

Uganda

Programme Summary

Launched by Straight Talk Foundation (STF) and supported by DANIDA (the Danish bilateral agency)'s Agriculture Sector Programme Support (ASPS) and the Poultry Association of Uganda (PAU), this was a three month radio campaign initiated in Kampala, Uganda to raise awareness of the low level of risk to farmers and consumers in Uganda despite the growing threat of avian influenza in surrounding areas of Africa in early 2006.

STF is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) addressing health and development through radio and print communication interventions in Uganda.

West African Elections Project

aventh — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:31:05 -0800

West African Elections Project

Countries

Cote d'Ivoire / Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea

Programme Summary

The West African Elections project, coordinated by the International Institute for ICT Journalism (PenPlusBytes), seeks to develop the media's capacity to use information and communication technology (ICT) as a tool for election coverage and the provision of information and knowledge related to planned elections in Ghana, Cote d'lvoire, and Guinea from 2008 to 2009. A key component of the project is the African Election Portal, which aims to provide comprehensive election-related information on the various countries covered by the portal.

Community Mobilisation in Response to Avian Influenza

kdevries — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:10:40 -0700

Community Mobilisation in Response to Avian Influenza

Country

Uganda

Programme Summary

The humanitarian organisation CARE Uganda's office is working to mobilise communities and to heighten awareness about avian influenza (AI) among internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the 3 Ugandan districts of Amuru, Gulu, and Pader. CARE Uganda has crafted a number of communication-centred approaches, including the dissemination of messages through drama shows and FM radio as well as the integration of bird flu messages in hygiene and sanitation training sessions.

Empowering Staff to Prevent and Manage Avian Influenza

kdevries — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:25:04 -0700

Empowering Staff to Prevent and Manage Avian Influenza

Countries

Somalia, Sudan

Programme Summary

The humanitarian organisation CARE's Somalia/South Sudan (CSSS) office has undertaken communication-centred efforts to educate their own staff, as well as to collaborate with local and global avian influenza (AI) networks, in an effort to prevent and/or manage the spread of bird flu in this region.

Red Card

kdevries — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:39:01 -0700

Red Card

Country

Madagascar

Programme Summary

Red Card is a health communication campaign that was designed to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS and to curb associated risky behaviours by "letting girls call the shots" and sparking conversation between parents and adolescents. The Academy for Educational Development (AED) turned to the signal soccer referees use to kick aggressive players out of a game: a red card. As part of the C–Change programme, which is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), paper Red Cards were distributed to 1.5 million young women across Madagascar. The Red Cards are meant to be used as an ice breaker to start conversations on sensitive topics and to stop risky and inappropriate behaviours at school, parties, their homes, and on dates. A series of public service announcements (PSAs) was designed to raise awareness about the initiative, and the Red Card tool that is at its centre.

Women’s Crossroads

aventh — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:20:52 -0700

Women’s Crossroads

Country

Chad

Programme Summary

Launched in 2009, Women’s Crossroads is a radio programme by Internews that seeks to address the information needs of women refugees from Darfur living in camps in eastern Chad. The programme, aired by Radio Sila 89.9 FM, focuses mainly on women’s health and rights issues. As part of the project, wind-up radios were distributed to women who were put in charge of the radio in order to ensure that the whole community, especially women, have access to radio.

Shukumisa Campaign

aventh — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:46:32 -0700

Shukumisa Campaign

Country

South Africa

Programme Summary

Launched on November 2008 in South Africa, the Shukumisa (to stir and shake up) Campaign is a national initiative by the National Working Group on Sexual Offences which calls on the state to account for its responses to survivors of sexual violence. The project is a product of 26 organisations working with adult and child survivors of sexual violence to ensure that effective and appropriate laws around sexual offences are passed. The purpose of the Shukumisa campaign is to monitor the implementation of laws and policies relevant to sexual offences and hold service providers to account for ineffective implementation.

Empower Children and Communities against Abuse (ECCA)

kdevries — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 10:25:40 -0700

Empower Children and Communities against Abuse (ECCA)

Country

Uganda

Programme Summary

Founded in 2002 by a team of human rights activists and child welfare practitioners, Empower Children and Communities against Abuse (ECCA) is a non-profit organisation that works to empower in- and out-of-school children and communities to work together against all forms of gender-based violence (GBV) in Uganda. The organisation works through support programmes, lobbying and advocacy, and capacity building. In addition, ECCA promotes the proactive participation of men in the design and implementation of gender-based violence prevention projects.

Information Dissemination Campaign on Domestic Violence

nombuso — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 01:56:26 -0700

Information Dissemination Campaign on Domestic Violence

Country

Zimbabwe

Programme Summary

In July 2007, Zimbabwe's International Video Fair Trust (IVFT) launched a campaign using mobile cinema, community dialogue, and printed information materials to highlight the problem of violence against women and to introduce the then-newly-passed national Domestic Violence Act. Funded by Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) Zimbabwe, the campaign sought to reach Zimbabweans in the country's four major cities (Harare, Bulawayo, Mutare, and Masvingo) with information on the new Act, and to demonstrate the link between HIV/AIDS and domestic violence. The campaign's goals included:

improved community dialogue and action on social concerns such as HIV/AIDS, and violence against women;
improved community awareness and utilisation of services in areas such as legal advise, shelters for urgent help, and HIV testing, counselling, and treatment;
improved community outreach offering relevant services in the same areas as well as improved partnerships between legal resource centres and women's help organisations, as well as development agencies and communities; and
behaviour change on the part of perpetrators of domestic violence by informing them of what constitutes gender equality and positive gender relations, as well as the legal implications of domestic violence.

MyQuestion and MyAnswer

aventh — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 01:20:38 -0700

MyQuestion and MyAnswer

Country

Nigeria

Programme Summary

Learning about Living, a project that aims to use information and communication technologies (ICTs) to educate young people on issues around adolescent reproductive health, is running two information and advice services for young people in Nigeria called MyQuestion and MyAnswer. These services, launched in November 2007 by the United Kingdom (UK) charity OneWorld UK and Butterfly Works (NL) in collaboration with other key Nigerian health non-governmental organisations (NGOs), allow young people to request information on reproductive health and HIV/AIDS through short messaging system (SMS), by going online or by phoning a hotline. It also involves a competition which requires that young people answer a set question each month related to HIV/AIDS.

Attendre Demain (Awaiting Tomorrow: HIV/AIDS in the Democratic Republic of the Congo) Video Advocacy Project

nombuso — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 02:55:21 -0700

Attendre Demain (Awaiting Tomorrow: HIV/AIDS in the Democratic Republic of the Congo) Video Advocacy Project

Country

Congo (DRC)

Programme Summary

Attendre Demain (Awaiting Tomorrow: HIV/AIDS in the Democratic Republic of the Congo) is an advocacy project that aims to use video to call to the Congolese government and other decision-makers to address the emerging HIV/AIDS crisis in the war-torn Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The video was produced by WITNESS, a non-profit organisation that trains human rights defenders to use video as an advocacy tool, in partnership with the Association des Jeunes pour le Developpement Integre-Kalundu (AJEDI-Ka/PES), a non-governmental organisation (NGO) that works with child soldiers and children affected by armed conflict.

Make Abuse Disappear Online Accountability Tool (MAD OAT)

nombuso — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 07:16:13 -0700

Make Abuse Disappear Online Accountability Tool (MAD OAT)

Country

South Africa

Programme Summary

The Make Abuse Disappear Online Accountability Tool (MAD OAT) is a child-centred project that aims to raise awareness and improve the representation of child abuse in the South African media through the use of technology, a network of child abuse experts, and a reference group of children. The project, run by Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) (formerly "Media Monitoring Project", or MMP), uses a website application to alert members of the MAD OAT network to media reporting that infringes on children's rights and that requires a response. MAD OAT members then submit their responses, which are sent to the media and self-regulatory bodies. In addition, instances of best practice are highlighted and commented on by MAD OAT members.

Witness to Truth: A Video Report and Recommendations from the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission

nombuso — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 04:05:17 -0700

Witness to Truth: A Video Report and Recommendations from the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Country

Sierra Leone

Programme Summary

As part of the peace and reconciliation process in Sierra Leone the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) considered it vital that the report emerging from the TRC process be conveyed to a broad variety of audiences, using as many different media as possible. For this reason the documentary “Witness to Truth” was produced to accompany the TRC report. The documentary summarises the key findings and recommendations of the TRC's report, highlighting the main causes and consequences of the war. It aims to raise public awareness of the TRC's peace-building efforts, encourage civil society in Sierra Leone and beyond and ensure that the government is held accountable for implementing the recommendations that form part of the TRC report. The video was produced by WITNESS, an organisation that uses the power of video to open the eyes of the world to human rights abuses.

Africa Talks Climate

aventh — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:44:02 -0700

Africa Talks Climate

Region

Africa

Programme Summary

Initiated ahead of the December 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference Copenhagen (COP15), Africa Talks Climate is a research and communication initiative of the BBC World Service Trust (WST), funded by the British Council. The initiative is designed to provide insight into the public's understanding of climate change in Africa, highlighting their concerns and experiences, in order to stimulate awareness of climate change and enhance political attention and action. The project is based on the idea that Africa's response to climate change is to some extent determined by how well it is understood by citizens and policymakers, and therefore the research seeks to inform and improve communication around this complex issue. In addition, the project's work to gather attitudes, opinions, and responses to climate change is designed to formulate advice for governments and society more widely.