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WOUGNET is located at Plot 55 Kenneth Dale, Off Kira Road, Kamwokya. Directions: After the Kamwokya market as you travel along Kira road, turn off to your left onto Kenneth Dale, (just before the football field and Kira Road Police Station). Once on Kenneth Dale, look out for the WOUGNET sign post on your left towards the end of the road. Click here for a map.

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The Citizen Journalism in Africa project (CJA)  is a three-year initiative funded by both Hivos and the EU. Hivos is working with SANGONet (South Africa) on this project. The aim of the project is to increase civil society organisations’ use of and interaction with various forms of media. This will help them maximise their communication strategies and reach. It is hoped that this will strengthen the organisations’ use of media and increase quality information dissemination capacity using multiple platforms.

The project is targeting six countries i.e. South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Zambia and Tanzania. In each of these countries, two Country Focal Points (CFPs) will act as country hubs, working with 15 local organisations. The focus of the interaction with local organisations will be knowledge sharing, learning journalism skills, media, publication skills and information dissemination. It is hoped that these organisations will also learn how to use these skills and resources effectively. In Uganda, the CFPs are WOUGNET and Busoga Rural Open Source Development Initiatives (BROSDI).

To inaugurate the project, Hivos organised a Get–to– know workshop that was held in Pretoria, South Africa from 3 - 6 July 2007. This workshop is the inception of a three tier-approach:
  1. Build the capacity of two forerunner organisations in each country to act as a country learning hub, or in other words – the country focal point. These organisations are the focal points for 15 participating organisations in their countries. The vision behind this is that with the creation of a firm training and knowledge sharing base and network in a country, strong(er) organisations can act as a catalyst for weaker organisations.
  2. Provide, encourage and facilitate pro-active online learning activities. The project will have its’ own e-learning platform.
  3. Encourage peer-to-peer review and on-the-job learning.

 

Learning activities will focus on digital media skills, journalistic professionalism and publishing skills.

The expected results of the Hivos/SANGONet programme are:

  1. Improved capacity of Selected African CSOs including community media organisation to use media tools (edge-of the net applications, traditional and digital media tools) effectively and in a journalistically sound manner
  2. Increased collaborative networking, learning and knowledge sharing between participants and training partners on the regional and the country level facilitating improved access to and higher quality of media contributions.
  3. Increased presence of and access to diverse and journalistically sound content on the situation of women and other marginalized groups (as defined in this proposal) in the media of the target countries

 

Organisations targeted are mainly organisations working in HIV/AIDS, women (gender), youth and children and rural communities (sustainable production/microcredit). For more information on the Uganda program, contact This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

 
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