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We engage in the following activities

  • Advocacy
  • Training
  • Media Encounters
  • News Update
  • Directory for Programme Producers

Advocacy

Radio and TV are strong advocacy tools yet few women make use of them.WIB provides support in this regard. We use our privileged position as programme producers, editors, directors, to bring issues of women and children to the front burner.

Through existing programmes on radio and televison, we provide the platform for women advocates to voice their concerns and push forward their advocacy agenda. We therefore cover a wide range of urgent issues- social, politics, economic and culture which go a long way to inform policy decisions.

Information Dissemmination

This is one of our strong advocacy tools. The aim is to empoer taget audience with requiste information in order to make informed decisions. We package and disseminate information on health, politics, conomic rights of women and human rights and governance.

Media Encounters

Once in two months WIB creates a platform for gender activitist and government officials to interact with its members and other media practitioners. The objective is to get acquainted with their programmes and activities.

Directory for Programme Producers

We aim at engendering media discussions particularly live and recorded radio and televison prgrammes. In this direction we are comipiling a directory of female resource persons who could be easily contacted to comment on national issues.

Training

Broadcast Skills Workshop

Children from selected schools in Ghana are the target group. Three hundred and 60 children from eight regions of Ghana have so far been equipped with skills in interviewing, news reporting, anchoring and presentation. Following the UNICEF sponsored workshops, the children "broadcasters" have regular air slots on regional and local FM stations where the peer education concept is taken further through radio.

Gender Training for Drama Groups, Film Producers/Script Writers

This training aims at bringing quantitative and equalitative changes into TV programme contents with respect to the representation of women and children in the medium. Participants are taken through gender concepts, with practical exercises in defining and identifying stereotypes and negative images of women and childrne in their productions.

Training for Members

One of our training programmes focuses on building the managerial capacities of members with a view to enhancing their access and mobility to key decision/policy making positions in and outside the media.

Other training programmes aim at keeping media women informed on development issues, a well as skills acquisition in order to improve professional standards and quality.

News Update

This online service provides local stories on social issues and success stories on women across the country. Newspapers and radio/televsion stations can cull the information.