Ethiopia: EMWA Trains Women Leaders On Media Practice
7 Apr 2009
The training serves the purpose of capacitating women leaders in the use of the media as well as strengthening the advocacy work that is being undertaken in the country, the organizers said.
For media is one major channel that facilitates advocacy as well as awareness creation and bringing about attitudinal change in the areas of human rights, changing of harmful practices, understanding gender equality and other social exclusion issues, in order to make this a reality one needs to understand how the sector works and how can use it for our purpose, said Saba Gebremedhin, Executive Directress of Networks of Ethiopian Women Association (NEWA) on Monday on her opening remark at Axum hotel here.
" Even though, there have been some efforts on the side of women, organizations and other actors one cannot say women's have been full utilizing this important tool the purposes due to different reasons including lack of knowledge or skill even understanding how the media works. Today more ever we need to use the media to sustain the result achieved so far to strengthen on gender equality further," she added.
The three days training organized by Ethiopian Media Women's Association (EMWA) in collaboration with Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES).
According to the directress, women haven't yet achieved even the 30 percent women and others government and NGOs have to work very hard to achieve enhancing capacity.
EMWA is a non-profitable professional association established in 1997 by like-minded women journalists and media professionals to promote women's rights and issues through and in the media. The association has about 200 members consisting of women journalists working in private and government media as well as media practitioners drawn from all fields of media and communication such a NGOs, international organizations and communication agencies
The training serves the purpose of capacitating women leaders in the use of the media as well as strengthening the advocacy work that is being undertaken in the country, the organizers said.
For media is one major channel that facilitates advocacy as well as awareness creation and bringing about attitudinal change in the areas of human rights, changing of harmful practices, understanding gender equality and other social exclusion issues, in order to make this a reality one needs to understand how the sector works and how can use it for our purpose, said Saba Gebremedhin, Executive Directress of Networks of Ethiopian Women Association (NEWA) on Monday on her opening remark at Axum hotel here.
" Even though, there have been some efforts on the side of women, organizations and other actors one cannot say women's have been full utilizing this important tool the purposes due to different reasons including lack of knowledge or skill even understanding how the media works. Today more ever we need to use the media to sustain the result achieved so far to strengthen on gender equality further," she added.
The three days training organized by Ethiopian Media Women's Association (EMWA) in collaboration with Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES).
According to the directress, women haven't yet achieved even the 30 percent women and others government and NGOs have to work very hard to achieve enhancing capacity.
EMWA is a non-profitable professional association established in 1997 by like-minded women journalists and media professionals to promote women's rights and issues through and in the media. The association has about 200 members consisting of women journalists working in private and government media as well as media practitioners drawn from all fields of media and communication such a NGOs, international organizations and communication agencies
