Majority of the trained female journalists are undertaking investigative stories on corruption, extortion, sexual exploitations and peer-peer knowledge sharing in their journalists networks/newsrooms.
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Media for Gender Equality and Social Justice: Leaving No One Behind
With support from the Royal Danish Embassy of Uganda, UMWA is yet again advancing the “Media for Gender Equality and Social Justice-leaving No One Behind” project. This is to address the poor portrayal of women in politics and women at large by the media. This challenge continues to undermine efforts towards growing and sustaining a people centred and inclusive democracy in Uganda.
WOMEN AND MEDIA SYMPOSIUM 2023: HERSTORY: SELF, HEALTH AND WEALTH
The Symposium was made colorful by the dinner awarding ceremony of women media practitioners who have overtime done impactful and life changing works. These distinguished ladies in media were selected from academia, research, management, civil society, mentors, managers, researchers and trainers.
DigitALL: Translating Gender Responsiveness into Digital Spaces for Women Inclusion
As we mark the great achievements witnessed in women empowerment during this #IWD2023, UMWA continues to strongly advocate for opportunities that offer women equal utilization of the digital innovations and technologies for freedom of expression and enhanced socio-economic empowerment.
Women visibility increases by 4% in Ugandan Media-Study
The study also realized a gender selective reporting where there is a relationship between the sex of the reporter and the proportion of female and male news subjects appearing in print news stories. Female reporters covered more female news subjects and quoted more females in their stories as opposed to the male reporters. In equal measure, male journalists gave more audience to male sources but also within talk shows of purely male presentation, women suffered a low engagement under similar likelihood.
Would Denmark be the assisting triumph towards an engendered media in Uganda?
During an interview on Mama FM while on the delegation visit, Flemming observed that Denmark is one of the developed countries that is deliberate on gender equality and human rights as a foundation for democracy. He added that subject to human rights, media is assessed as fundamental and hinge to fulfillment of other rights for all persons, as a knowledge and advocate ground.
Male dominance, a persisting gender gap in media content
The 2020 GMMP report released by UMWA observed that there was a low women visibility in news media, only at 24% as news sources and subjects compared to their male counterparts. And yet, only achieved at a 6% rate over a ten year-period of time and a staggering progress as of the March-June 2022 gender responsive media monitoring engagements.
Post Covid-19: Identifying capacity needs for Community media development
“We have least political talk, ours is developmental content that serves the immediate needs of communities without a profit orientation. Our importance is unarguably relevant but how best can we serve in lack?” said Margaret Sentamu