Upcoming Events

International Women’s Day, 8 March 2012

Media Centres of Excellence – Training of Trainers, 13-15 February 2012, Johannesburg, South Africa

Mainstreaming gender in media education, 20-24 December 2011, February 2012, Johannesburg, South Africa

GMDC Advisory Group Meeting and telcon, 23 February 2012, Johannesburg, South Africa

Reporting Gender Based Violence, November 2011, Johannesburg and Limpopo, South Africa
COP 17, 28 November – 9 December 2011, Durban, South Africa

16 Days of Activism, 25 November – 10 December 2011, International

Reporting Gender Based Violence, October 2011
Botswana, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe

Pan African Conference on Access to Information Conference, 17-19 September, Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape Town, South Africa

15th Highway Africa Conference, 17-19 September, Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape Town, South Africa

Gender Links, Polytechnic of Namibia and MISA, 8 August 2011, Gender, media freedom and access to information seminar, Hotel School: Windhoek, Namibia, 18h00-20h00

Gender Links Polytechnic of Namibia, MISA and University of Namibia, 21 July 2011, Gender, media freedom and access to information seminar, Windhoek, Namibia

Gender Links, MISA Tanzania and University of Dar es Salaam, 9 August 2011, Gender, media freedom and access to information seminar, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Gender Links, Media Monitoring Africa and MISA South Africa, 15 August 2011, Gender, media freedom and Access to Information seminar, Johannesburg, South Africa

Gender Links and Malawi Institute of Journalism, 16 June 2011, Media Literacy Graduation, Signing of MOU and Gender and media freedom seminar, Blantyre, Malawi

Gender Links and National University of Lesotho, 22 June 2011, Media Literacy Graduation and Gender and media freedom seminar, Maseru, Lesotho

Media Centres of Excellence, 18-20 May 2011, Johannesburg, South Africa
Gender Links will be conducting a planning workshop for gender policy facilitators from the 18-20th of May 2011. The purpose of this workshop is to re-conceptualise the media policy work as part of a long term vision to establish Media Centres of Excellence (COEs) in gender mainstreaming. The COE process will ensure that GL makes meaningful interventions in the media in the next three years. Among other things, the workshop will identify newsrooms; agree on the different interventions and the monitoring and evaluation tools to assess the impact of the different initiatives. GL will work with 100 newsrooms in the SADC region with the aim of ensuring that they have at least 30% women sources in news content by 2014

10 March: Launch of GMPS/GIME Swaziland in Swaziland

16 March: Media literacy for Mass Media Council and media houses at Hotel Cardoso, Maputo: 08h30-16h30

17 March: Launch of GMPS/GIME Mozambique at Hotel Cardoso, Maputo: 18h00-20h30

TBD: Media literacy for School of Journalism and Media Studies at University of Dar es Salaam

TBD: Media literacy for radio station staff and students at Malawi Institute of Journalism

Malawi: Gender and media regulation in Malawi, 31 January to 1 February

Botswana: Media literacy with students from the department of Media Studies, University of Botswana

Botswana: Launch of the GMPS and GIME reports, President Hotel, Gaborone, 1 February 2011

Lesotho: Media literacy with students from the department of Media Studies, National University of Lesotho

Madagascar: Gender entry points into the curriculum of the Department of Journalism, 14 – 17 February, University of Antananarivo

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