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Achievements

May 2010 – WOMEC in collaboration with the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) organised a National Training Workshop for Media Practitioners on Effective Use of the Media to Promote the Housing and Land Rights of Women in Ghana, Coconut Grove Regency Hotel

August 2010 – WOMEC offered to 15 female journalists for a 3-day ICT workshop on Microsoft Suite 2007, at the Center of IT Professional Development (CIPD) of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) in Accra

2009 - WOMEC in collaboration with ABANTU for Development and Women’s Manifesto coalition with support from CIDA, organised a Media sensitization workshop on the theme, Promoting greater visibility for women in leadership in Ghana. One workshop was held in Kumasi for the Northern sector and another one was held in Accra for the Southern sector. Twenty-five journalists from both the print Media and electronic Media participated in the two workshops.

November 2008 - Women, Media and Change (WOMEC) with support from Abantu for Development organised training workshops for female journalists on Enhancing the Participation of Women in Ghana’s Elections 2008.

August 2008 - WOMEC and FAMEDEV with support from Africa Women’s Development Fund organised a Training Workshop on “Reporting on HIV/AIDS from a Gender and Rights Perspective.”

2008 - WOMEC organised a media sensitization workshop on “Increasing Women Leadership and Participation in Election 2008” with support from ABANTU for Development

2008 - WOMEC also organised an HIV/AIDS training workshop for journalists with support from AWDF.

June 2007 - WOMEC organised a capacity building workshop for 20 female journalists from both private and public media houses in Ghana. The workshop was aimed at building the capacity of female journalists to enable them report from a gender perspective.

June 2007 - WOMEC coordinated SOAWR public forum toward the African Union (AU) Summits held in Accra, Ghana to ensure that the Protocol to the African Charter on the Rights of Women in Africa remains on the agenda of policy makers and to urge all African leaders to safeguard the rights of women through ratification and implementation of the Protocol.

April 2007 - WOMEC organised a field trip to Dodowa Health Research Centre for 10 journalists to acquaint themselves with researches going on at the centre. Journalists acquired first hand information on current researches underway in the District.

November 2006 - WOMEC co-founded African Media and Malaria Research Network (AMMREN) - a network of African journalists and scientists working together to eradicate malaria in Africa. Participating journalists and scientists are from — The Gambia, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal and Tanzania. Read more about AMMREN on www.ammren.org.

August 2006 - WOMEC worked with six women living with HIV to produce radio diaries. Six radio journalists were trained to partner with HIV positive women to act as mentors and to assist with the production of radio diaries of women living with HIV. The project is with support from INTERNEWS, USA. Read about INTERNEWS on www.internews.org.

April 2006 - Launched the first edition of “The Female Parliamentarian”. The Newsletter was produced and published by WOMEC with support from ActionAid International and UNDP-Ghana.

April 2006 - WOMEC with support from CIDA, DANIDA/Abantu for Development organised the first phase of workshop for 35 journalists from 5 regions of Ghana on the Promotion of Women’s Participation in Local Governance.
In June 2006-WOMEC with support from CIDA, DANIDA/ABANTU for Development organised the second phase of workshop for 35 journalists from 5 regions of Ghana on the promotion of women in local governance.

September 2005 - WOMEC as a nominee for an award at the Pan African Women’s Invent and Innovate Conference. (PAWII) in the “Capacity Building Initiatives and Projects” Division, put up a stand at the PAWII exhibition. The theme was “Celebrating Women in ICT”.

2004 - WOMEC, with support from UN System Gender Programme conducted a Training workshop for 50 media practitioners from six regions on Mainstreaming Gender Coverage in Elections 2004.

2004 - WOMEC, in collaboration with UN System Gender Programme with support from CIDA-Ghana conducted a Three-Day workshop that brought together 25 media personnel (drawn from the Northern Belt) from both the print and electronic media to sensitise journalists to promote gender mainstreaming in media coverage against the Background of the Women’s Manifesto for Ghana.

2003 - WOMEC co-produced a Training Manual on HIV/AIDS Reporting for Media Practitioners with support from Action Aid-Ghana.

2003 - WOMEC Forum on Mobilizing supports to end domestic violence in Ghana for 100 women in Shama-Ahanta Metropolitan Area in the Ahanta West District in the Western Region.

2003 - WOMEC organized a Reflection Seminar for female parliamentarians with the aim of developing media skills, tools and practices for effective participation of women in parliament.

2002 - WOMEC Series of Voter Education Workshops for representatives of women groups in Shama-Ahanta Metropolitan Area in the Ahanta West District of Western Region. This is under WOMEC’s Grassroots’ Projects to empower women take action for change and progress.

2000 - WOMEC conducted Media skills training for 100 female parliamentary candidates in the 2000 elections. The Public Affairs Section of the US Embassy, Accra, sponsored the project