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About Us
The African Woman and Child Features Service (AWC) is a Nairobi-based media organisation with an African regional outlook.
AWC has been active in training journalists and other media practitioners as well as NGOs in the region in the area of gender, media and development. It has assisted in the production of training manuals for organisations, gender mainstreaming policies and content for media houses and training women on how to access and effectively use the media for development.
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The African Woman and Child Features Service (AWC) is a Nairobi-based media organisation with an African regional outlook. AWC was established in March 1994 with the aim of mainstreaming gender in and through the media for development. Guided by the principle of equal development for women, men and children, AWC disseminates information by way of feature articles, published in mainstream newspapers throughout Africa and beyond, training manuals and hand books, news bulletins, magazines and occasionally audio and video productions for broadcast via radio, television and the internet. All the information disseminated by AWC has a progressive gender perspective. In addition, AWC has been active in training journalists and other media practitioners as well as NGOs in the region in the area of gender, media and development. It has assisted in the production of training manuals for organisations, gender mainstreaming policies and content for media houses and training women on how to access and effectively use the media for development. The organization has enhanced links between the public and the media by being in the forefront in the establishment of the Media Council of Kenya and as coordinators of the Media Industry Steering Committee, which brings all media stakeholders together. AWC has been instrumental in documenting women’s issues for posterity, especially in the area of legal and political developments in Kenya. This is expressed through publishing books and carrying out research from a gender perspective. AWC has a vision of Africa as a continent that understands and embraces media and gender as a cornerstone for development. To achieve this vision, AWC seeks to ensure the presence of gender issues in the media and in development. It runs a feature service, which serves as the media arm of the organization. Our activities are derived from the five core programme areas namely:
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Preliminary report of a study commissioned by African Woman and Child Feature Service as part of the Sixteen Days of Activism against Gender Violence, November 25- December 10, 2004
A snapshot of Kenyan Newspapers’ coverage of violence against women December 10, 2005 to October 2006
A group of women journalists have come together, facilitated by the Swedish and Norwegian envoys in Kenya, and launched an initiative called 'Healing the Nation'.
The GGP was developed by different stakeholders comprising women leaders and women centred civil society organisations and supported by the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and development partners such as the Swedish International Development Agency, the Royal Netherlands Embassy, the Royal Norwegian Embassy and DFID.
