Rural Women Reporting

This 8-page report documents the process and key outputs of the Rural Women Reporting workshop series initiated by FAHMAU Networks for Social Justice and Community Media for Development (CMFD) Productions.

According to the report, rural women are rarely heard in the media; even more rarely do they actually have the opportunity to create media. The Rural Women Reporting project was developed to both produce programmes that speak to the issues rural women face, and to empower those who participated through skills and confidence-building to support ways to make their voices heard. The programmes were made available to local radio stations and places where people gather, and were distributed over the internet as podcasts.

According to the report, the workshops focused on participation and experiential learning, and followed eight key steps: an introduction outlining course objectives and radio formats, programme planning, creation of a detailed programme outline, research, conducting interviews, learning about and writing scripts, voicing narration and editing the programmes, and distribution.

Publisher: Community Media for Development (CMFD) Productions/FAHAMU
Year of Publication: 2008