Radio project--Media for Africa Women's Rights (MEWOR)/Projet radio--Medias pour les Droits de la Femme en Afrique (MEWOR).

• Position: COMMUNICATION PROGRAMME/PROGRAMME COMMUNICATION

FEMNET is collaborating with FAHAMU (Networks for Social Justice) to carry out the Media for Women's Rights (MEWOR) Project to be implemented in 2 pilot regions of Africa--Eastern and Western Africa. The project aims to develop a series of radio programmes to create widespread awareness on the Africa Union Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People's Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa. The Protocol has been recognised as a continental legal framework for the protection of women's rights in Africa. The campaign for its ratification and domestication is spearheaded by a coalition of more than twenty organisations known as Solidarity for African Women's Rights (SOAWR) Coalition, in which FEMNET and FAHAMU are members. So far, the Protocol has been ratified in about 19 African countries and there is urgent need to encourage and mobilise the remaining 34 countries to not only ratify but also domesticate the Protocol.

Through this 3-year MEWOR project, FEMNET and FAHAMU propose to use communication as a key strategy, by developing two types of radio programmes. Firstly, a series of radio drama programmes, which will target local communities through community radio stations as well as cartoon strips targeting younger audiences will be developed. Secondly, a series of current affairs radio programmes will be produced, which will target a separate audience of policy makers and opinion leaders and will be available for download from the Internet and shall be broadcast on radio stations.

A regional consultative and planning meeting will be held in May 2007. The meeting will bring together media professionals in both community radio and select media houses as key partners for the project. The key objective is to forge a partnership, common understanding and commitment to the project goals.

FEMNET est en train de collaborer avec FAHAMU (Reseaux de Justice Sociale) afin de mener un projet des Medias pour les Droits de la Femme en Afrique (MEWOR) qui doit etre execute dans deux regions pilotes de l'Afrique--Afrique Orientale et Afrique Occidentale. Le projet vise a elaborer une serie de programmes radio en...