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

AMWIK’s mission is to promote an informed and resourceful society through professional development and transformation of the media to enhance the status of women in Kenya. To achieve this mission, the Association’s focuses upon four thematic areas and all our programmes fall within these areas.

We have chosen these themes based on the needs of women and the media we work with, and analysing the skills and experiences that AMWIK has to offer to them. AMWIK also links its work with regional and international efforts including ensuring that the Kenya government ratifies key international instruments or protocols and that it domesticates the ones it has ratified.

The thematic areas include:
1. Information gathering and dissemination to create public awareness for social mobilisation
2. Policy research, lobbying and advocacy
3. Capacity building and knowledge base expansion
4. Institutional strengthening and of intersectoral linkages between various government and civil society organisations

Specific programmes that AMWIK undertakes within the thematic areas include:

Campaign against Gender Based Violence
Gender based violence prevalence in Kenya is very high with increasing incidences of rape and defilement. AMWIK is involved in various endeavors against all forms of gender based violence. Towards these efforts, the Association has implemented a number of projects and belongs to a network of civil society organisations campaigning against GBV…Read more
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Media Relations
The Association has tried to build the capacity of organizations, media practioners and women leaders on effective media relations as follows:..Read more
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Child Labor Campaign
The Association has in the last four years carried out media and community awareness campaigns against child labour with the support of International Labour Organisation/International Programme on Elimination of Child Labour (ILO/IPEC) and WINROCK International...Read more
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The Regional Women's Exchange Programme
This is an exchange programme that brings together women media organisations from Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Zambia and Kenya. Women journalists from the five countries spend a year in the host Association to learn and share different skills and experiences...Read more
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