Training Manuals

The handbook – part of the Media Action Plan (MAP) on HIV and AIDS and Gender – is targeted at key decision-makers within media houses who are pivotal to providing vision and effective leadership as well ensuring that policies are turned into action.

Making Every Voice Count: Reporting Southern Africa is a compendium to Making Every Voice Count: A Handbook for Gender in the Media Centres of Excellence.The hand book maps out the process, including the management, monitoring and evaluation tools. Reporting Southern Africa is like the concertina that opens out at the critical Stage 7: Backstopping.

Many gender and media activists have access to computers, modems and the internet, but how do we use these tools?

Business Unusual is a practical work book of 8 chapters, 13 fact sheets and a CD-Rom with 30 case studies which address women and the economy and which will help media practitioners and trainers to see the economy through gendered lens.

Crafted by specialist writers from around Southern Africa, this is an invaluable resource for media trainers keen to go beyond superficial ABC campaigns for reducing the spread of HIV.

“Picture our lives”, jointly produced with SAMSO, provides insight into gender and photo journalism in Southern Africa. The wealth of exercises and examples is an eye-opener to those who make and take images, as well as those who daily consume them.

This primer documents one of the most far-reaching efforts to mainstream gender in media education in Southern Africa in partnership with the Department of Media Technology, Polytechnic of Namibia.

The Local Government Gender Action Plan Manual is a product of the Training of Trainer (TOT) workshop that took place in Johannesburg in November 2007. The workshop brought together representatives of gender and local government ministries, local government authorities and their staff from the four case study countries of the Gender Links (GL) study: At the Coalface, Gender and Local Government. The four countries are Mauritius, Lesotho, South Africa and Namibia.

The South African local government gender action plan manual is designed as a complement to the government’s Gender Policy Framework for Local Government. While the framework provides the policy guideline, the manual provides the tools for understanding what gender mainstreaming is; why it is important; and how to go about developing a gender action plan.

The local government gender action plan workshop manual is a product of the Training of Trainer (TOT) workshop that took place in Johannesburg in November 2007. The workshop brought together representatives of gender and local government ministries, local government authorities and their staff from the four case study countries of the GL study: At the Coalface, Gender and Local Government. The four countries are Mauritius, Lesotho, South Africa and Namibia.

The tool kit “Watching the Watchdogs,À has been developed to guide the media literacy course. It draws from research and training material developed over a number of years on gender and the Southern African media.

Training manual for gender action plans in Swaziland