Programmes

Campaign against Gender Based Violence :: Media Relation :: AMWIK’s Supporters & Networks :: Child Labor Campaign :: Regional Women's Exchange Programme :: GGP ::FGM/C :: Child Labour Awards

a. The Stop FGM Campaign - since 2002, AMWIK has been involved in the campaign agaisnt Female Genital Mutilation/Cut (FGM/C), which is considered as a form of gender based violence. Currently, AMWIK is implementing a programme: The Regional Media Task Force (RMTF) to Support the Process for the Abandonment of FGM/C Within One Generation, being supported by AIDOS and which involves seven Sub-Saharan countries and Egypt.

b. Stepping Down the Sexual Offences Act AMWIK in collaboration with Centre for Rights, Education, Awareness for Women (CREAW), the CRADLE, and Education Centre for Women in Democracy (ECWD).

Other programmes that AMWIK has previuosly implemented include a media campaign to end workplace sexual violence, a programme supported by Mama Cash and its anjual involvement

d. 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Based Violence – Every year, the Association participates in the 16 days of activism through awareness raising programmes on GBV issues. It also networks with other organizations locally and regionally especially with Raising Voices, an organization based in Uganda in joint activities such as distribution of IEC materials in addition to ensuring media coverage of the network’s activities.

e. The HIV/AIDS Campaign
In its quest to improve the role of the media in HIV/Aids prevention, AMWIK provided well researched and edited online feature articles ready for publication under this programme in 2002-2003. The articles highlighted human interest stories on the plight of HIV/AIDS in the society. This project was supported by UNESCO and received an award for the media body most committed to the HIV/AIDS sensitisation campaign during the Journalist of the Year awards organized by the Kenya Union of Journalists in December 2003. AMWIK mainstreams HIV/AIDS issues in all its projects.

f. Counter Trafficking in Kenya :
AMWIK has been involved in creating awareness on persons and child trafficking with the support of International Organisation on Migration (IOM). Issues that have been addressed in this project include the plight of trafficked children who often end up in sexual exploitation and slavery. The project aims to create public awareness and lobby policy makers to develop and enact appropriate policies that address persons’ trafficking in Kenya. It is also a member of anti-trafficking network coordinated by FIDA Kenya that is lobbying Kenya to be a signatory on the international protocol against trafficking of persons and enactment of an anti-trasfficking act in the country.