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Pilot project led to deeper reporting about the Rwandan election

Miscommunication about polling hours, registration difficulties for those living outside their home districts and confusion about candidates. These were some of the issues reported on in a game-changing pilot project organised by the Rwanda Media Programme during the country’s election in July. During the Rwandan elections in July 2024, a pilot synergy project revealed significant […]

Seeing the world through bug eyes: Future journalists learn why insects matter

Students at Mount Kigali University (MKU), the University of Rwanda, East African University Rwanda and Institut Catholique de Kabgayi ICK recently participated in a course on TV production and environmental journalism. The course taught students how to report on the environment, through the lens of some of its smallest components.

Breaking barriers, building change

Women’s lived experiences. Surveyed, analysed, and communicated. This is the simple recipe for successful media development work to fight gender violence and discrimination. As a result of comprehensive gender research by Fojo and African Women in Media (AWiM), new policies and mechanisms for change are now a reality. 

Rwanda’s students take a stand for gender equality 

In the face of gender disparities among journalists in Rwanda, 200 students from the Rwanda Media Programme’s four partner universities have come together to form Gender Clubs. Their mission? To weave gender equality into the very fabric of journalism education, boost female enrollment, and transform the landscape for women—both during their studies and in their future careers.

“You should feel safe in your workplace”

In mid-November 2023, 33 media houses in Rwanda endorsed the “Rwanda Media Anti Sexual Harassment Policy,” vowing to address workplace sexual harassment. Developed by the media sector with support from Fojo’s Rwanda Media Programme, Annelie Frank, Programme Manager for the Rwanda Media Programme, highlights that experiencing sexual harassment affects female journalists personally and impacts their representation in Rwanda’s already low female journalist count.

AWiM23 introduces bold declaration to tackle gender-based violence

The AWiM23-Conference in Kigali, Rwanda, on 30 Nov – 1 December, will present a declaration that addresses the critical issue of gender-based violence (GBV), both regarding the kinds of violence women in media experience and how media represents gender-based violence in its content.