| Reporting Organization: | BBC Media Action |
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| Total Budget ($CAD): | $ 4,774,350 |
| Timeframe: | March 22, 2017 - December 31, 2020 |
| Status: | Implementation |
| Contact Information: | Unspecified |
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| Afghanistan - $ 4,774,350.00 (100.00%) | |
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| Human Rights, Advocacy & Public Engagement (60 %) | |
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| Gender Equality (40 %) | |
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The project promotes women’s role in public discourse with the help of non-profit media and women’s rights and empowerment focused civil society organizations in six regions of Aghanistan. Building on successes of local Afghan FM radio stations, this project supports partner organizations to communicate knowledge and share experiences through an acceptable social medium which ultimately aims to provide women and girls with a stronger voice in their communities and within their social networks. Project activities include: (1) increasing the capacity of six to eight provincial radio stations to more effectively and responsibly portray key gender equality concerns; (2) supporting the Afghan Education Production Organization to produce new radio programming with an emphasis on women’s and girls’ rights and empowerment issues through 600 scenes of its radio drama “New Home, New Life” and 90 episodes of its youth program; (3) engaging the Empowerment Centre for Women and their women’s organisations members to extend their reach, and strengthen their advocacy and media engagement techniques; (4) supporting the development of women’s radio networks to empower female journalists; and (5) enhancing the awareness and knowledge of radio station managers and senior staff on key gender equality issues. Overall, the project is expected to strengthen six to eight provincial radio stations in at least four different regions (Khost, Jalalabad, Mazar i Sharif and Herat). Direct beneficiaries include women journalists, station managers and member organisations of the Empowerment Center for Women. Through radio, a wide and diverse range of broadcast audiences are reached, particularly in the rural areas where gender discriminatory attitudes tend to be highest. Advocacy efforts of civil society organizations also extend reach to wider communities of indirect beneficiaries to increase awareness of rights and ensure the voice of rural women is brought into the discourse.
| Gender and age: | Adult women Adolescent females Children, girls |
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| Total Direct Population: | Unspecified |
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Return to topThe expected outcomes for this project include: (1) Afghan society and government are more effectively supporting the protection of rights of women and girls from gender-based violence through enhanced commitment, policies and programming that defend the rights of women and girls; and (2) strengthened Afghan civil society organizations are actively coordinating, advocating, protecting and promoting the rights and empowerment of women and girls.
Results achieved as of June 2018 include: (1) the development and delivery of training sessions to staff of six FM radio stations. These training sessions were on producing gender-sensitive and gender-transformative content, on creating enabling work environments for female staff, on practicing gender-sensitivity, and understanding Afghan gender laws; (2) the production of six broadcasts by FM radio stations promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment; and (3) the establishment of monthly forums between radio partners and civil society organizations to collaborate on advocating for women’s and girls’ rights, and for FM radio partners to improve their understanding of local issues to help them generate content ideas that can drive change at the provincial level. These results have contributed to increasing the capacity of six FM radio partners to produce content that addresses issues relating to the rights and empowerment of women and girls in Afghanistan.
