[ad_1]
Dar es Salaam – Vice President Samia Hassan is expected to celebrate the three-day gender summit scheduled for 2018, which will begin on August 22 in Dar es Salaam.
UN Women Executive Director Dr. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka and prominent media personalities from Tanzania will participate in this event. The summit will include several sessions and discussions on the status of gender reporting in Tanzania. The opportunity will also be used for launching the report of the media monitoring exercise and research held earlier this year as well as a manual on gender-sensitive reporting, with particular emphasis on the Sustainable Development Goals.
after a week-long training on gender-sensitive reporting held recently in Dar es Salaam where 32 journalists from 15 Tanzanian press houses and students from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication there Have attended.
In Tanzania, specific data were collected. and Media Progress Study found that women represent only 22% of news sources, two points higher than the regional average of 20%. Gender Links Director Colleen Lowe-Morna said, "The media play a leading role in shaping attitudes, norms and perceptions to achieve and contribute to gender equality. "
The key element of the Summit is the Award for Excellence in Gender Sensitive Reporting in the categories Print, Radio, Television, Photojournalism, Institutional and Media Leadership. "
Funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and supported by Gender Links, the Summit is a component of accelerating the localization of gender-sensitive sustainable development goals – Program to Support the Capacity of Executive Secretariat of UN Women, and aims to bridge the gender gap in the media.
[ad_2]
Source link
