Gender and Media

Gender Mainstreaming: Regional MDG Capacity Building

Status : Completed

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Building Capacities of media professionals for budget tracking and analysis

Status :  Completed
Description : The program, “Building Capacities of media professionals for budget tracking and analysis”, will strengthen the capacity of media professionals to ensure that media coverage contributes to guarantee the transparency of the budget process and the control of public resources at both national and local levels.

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Media and Women’s rights in Tunisia

Status : Completed
Description : This project is part of international, regional and local efforts to develop the image of women in the media to reflect the reality of women's participation in various aspects of life, which comes in response to the recommendations of the report for the Middle East for the Global Media Monitoring Project 2009.

The "Media and Women's Rights in Tunisia" project analyses Tunisian written and audio-visual media to keep up with the coverage and the reality of media production about the status of Tunisian women in general and focusing on their human rights especially in the post-revolution Tunisia.

This project monitors the media for fifty days, an average of five days each month during the period January – October 2012. This will enable the elaboration of 3 reports, in addition to the synthesis report and make recommendations to the media in order to keep up with changes in the situation of Arab women and improve the media production on women issued.

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Electronic Clearinghouse on Arab Women and Development

Status : Ongoing
Description : The question of exchanging knowledge in reference to scientific evidence, research, and data is used interchangeably in the field of gender issues and women development. Statistic and dynamic websites offer a range of materials, including, reports and information about programs, projects, and initiatives. Considerably, existing international, regional and national publications in this field point to bridging gap between research and policy to yield desirable change.

The Arab region, as elsewhere, faces the challenge of bridging the gap and more importantly a wholesale of problems relating to access to quality and updated information in the field of gender issues and women development.

The main objective of the clearing house is to cover a variety of themes related to gender, development, decision making and other emergent issues. It is expected to be an electronic reference center for the Arab region, and a space in which knowledge is shared, good practices are exchanged, and priorities on gender issues are identified in the region through electronic newsletter.

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The Politic Dimensions of Media Images

Status : Completed
Description : The Tunisian Center of Arab Women for Training and Research (CAWTAR)'s project entitled “The Political Dimensions of Media Images" aims to promote a better understanding of young adults (at least 250 people), of the nature of media images and their impact on public opinion, attitudes, and political choices.

The project also aims to spread the culture of equality, create a better understanding of Women's rights and enhance the image of women among youth in Tunisia through: a) Training TV presenters to analyze various forms of media images, b) Training audience to analyze media content related to representation in the political arena and non-discrimination against women, c) Training spectators on how to read media messages, d) Debate sessions.

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CAWTAR's Media Unit

Status : Ongoing
Description : Media professionals should consider CAWTAR as a leading source of response and comments related to gender issues. Significant importance is accorded to building and maintaining strong relationships with representatives of the media. Regular and effective media interventions are the main goals of the information and communication unit created since 1999.

The diversity of areas of opportunities for mass-media interventions is a strong point to be taken into account:

• Launching of reports and studies
• Speeches and presentation produced by CAWTAR
• Competitions designated to different stakeholders
• Events (workshops, seminars and training sessions…)
• Signature of MoUs
• Technical support provided to other organizations​

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Cawtaryat

Status : Ongoing
Description : "Cawtaryat" is a periodic newsletter published quarterly by the Centre for Arab Women Training and Research (CAWTAR). The objective of its publication is to create a media space that reflects the situation of Arab women and brings about a dynamics between Arab journalists, urging them to address all development issues while taking into account the gender approach.

CAWTAR has succeeded so far to create a network of Arab journalists who address gender issues and reflect problems faced by women in their countries and gains made to achieve gender equality at the social, economic, social and legislative levels.

50 issues have been published so far, with funding from the International Planned Parenthood Federation - Arab world Region, while special issues are funded by partners of  CAWTAR and financiers of some programs and projects related to the subject of the issue.​

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AdoOnline Newsletter

Status : Completed
Description : "AdoOnline" is an electronic newsletter on adolescent Girls and Boys in the Arab region. It has two main goals. First, accumulate knowledge and raise awareness of the conditions of adolescent boys and girls in the Arab region. Second, harness CAWTAR’s communication with its partners: research centres, practitioners, NGOs, regional and international organizations as well as the media active in this field.

A number of journalists and media experts who are also members of CAWTAR’s regional Arab Network for Gender and Development (@NGED) rotate the issuance and the editorial in chief of AdoOnline. This is to allow the full coverage of conditions of adolescents, and the expression of local and national voices on adolescents’ programs and policies.

AdoOnline contains news, articles, statistics, best practices and interviews. It reflects the contents of the findings, testimonies and recommendations of CAWTAR’s 2nd Arab Women Development Report, “Arab Adolescent Girl: Realities and Prospects”, which was published in 2003.

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Arab Woman Media Watch

Status : Completed
Description : The Gender and Arab Media Program is an integrated regional program launched in 2004 by the "CAWTAR” and the United Nations’ Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), with the support of the Arab Gulf Program for United Nations Development Organizations. The program has different components, including basically the fourth report of Arab women development on Arab Women and Media. It is an analytic survey of what has been achieved in the Arab world in terms of studies and research on Arab women and the media in the period between 1995 and 2005.

In 2009, CAWTAR obtained an additional fund from AGFUND to produce a training kit designed for journalists and conduct 2 regional sessions. In 2010 UNESCO allocated funds to conduct a sub-regional session aimed at media in Maghreb countries.

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CAWTAR’s Media Competitions

Status : Ongoing
Description : Since 2000, CAWTAR launched competitions in order to establish a dialogue on Gender and Arab Women issues, and to sensitize many different target groups on the real conditions of Arab women and their true capacities to contribute to the development process.

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