Welcome to the GMDC!
The Gender and Media Diversity (GMDC) is a project of Gender Links. It is a physical and virtual resource centre based in Johannesburg, South Africa, with linkages throughout Southern Africa and across the globe.
The GMDC is a consortium of tertiary institutions and media NGOs committed to the vision and mission of the GMDC. Read more about the GMDC. Institutions and individuals become members of the GMDC. The centre is managed by Gender Links working with an advisory group drawn from the membership. Click here for a full list of members. Only members who have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the GMDC are eligible to sit on the Advisory group.
The Centre aims to create a diverse, response media and critical citizenry that is able to hold the media accountable. The GMDC does this through three strategies: knowledge creation and dissemination; investing in future media producers and through public debates on issues of gender, media and diversity.
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The GMDC creates and disseminates knowledge through the: |
Investing in the future: Working with institutions of higher learning the GMDC coordinates a region wide internship programme for young peope as part of their formal training. |
| Critical citizenry: The GMDC holds regular seminars on gender, media and diversity. Seminar topics have included gender and transformative leadership and gender and Soccer 2010. |
Latest News and Opportunities
 Gender, climate change and sustainable development - November 2011 Making every voice count! Two major global campaigns celebrating or heading up for their twentieth anniversary are coming together in late November/ early December 2011. The Sixteen Days of Activism from 25 November to 10 December coincides with the UN Conference on Climate Change in Durban. The two campaigns taking place on almost exactly the same dates have given rise to this year's dual focus on gender and climate justice. The momentum of the two campaigns is being used to launch a concerted campaign for an addendum to the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development on gender and climate change. Read more. |
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| Gender Links: Internship Jan-June 2012 A leading regional NGO working on gender equality offers an exciting opportunity to work as an intern in one of its programme areas. Gender Links (GL) is providing a six months long internship programme, which commences on the 13th of January 2012. The internships will be available in three of our programme areas. The organisation has a long history of successful internships. Many interns have moved into desirable positions after their internship at GL. The internship programme is ultimately aimed at maximising benefits for both Gender Links and the Intern. To read more and to apply, click here. |
African Platform on Access to Information On 19 September 2011, the Africa Information and Media Summit (AIMS), which brought together the Pan African Conference on Access to Information and Highway Africa Conference, adopted the African Platform on Access to Information (APAI). The declaration calls on African governments to adopt a set of principles that promote information access, and urges them to pass and implement freedom of information laws. Currently, less than a fifth of African countries have freedom of information laws. Read more |
The GMDC advisory group includes:
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INSTITUTIONS |
| African Women and Child Feature Service (AWC), Kenya |
| International Media Women's Foundation |
| National University of Science and Technology (NUST), Zimbabwe |
| Polytechnic of Namibia |
| University of Antananarivo, Madagascar |
| University of Botswana |
| University of Limpopo, South Africa |
| INDIVIDUALS |
| Ammu Joseph, author and member of the Network of Women in Media, India |
| Margaret Gallagher, gender and media expert |
| Maria Edstrom, academic, University of Gothunburg |
| Patricia Made, independent gender and media consultant |
| Pinkie Mekgwe, University of Botswana |
