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Business Unusual, Gender, Economy and the Media targets financial journalists with the aim of raising awareness on and profiling women's contribution to the economy. So far training has been conducted in Botswana, DRC, Malawi, Mauritius, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe .


With the signing of the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development, the project has sought to highlight the economic provisions of the protocol. Since 2009, training workshops have coincided with the SADC Heads of State (HOS) summits in the DRC and Namibia in 2010. In 2011 GL will bring together Angola and Mozambique journalists for a training workshop ahead of the HOS summit in Luanda. In 2010, GL conducted a workshop for regional journalists with the aim of highlighting how the SADC protocol economic provisions could be tied to the 2010 Soccer tournament.

This year, Gender Links, in collaboration with the Angolan Forum for Women Journalists, conducted a training workshop for journalists ahead of the SADC HOS in August 2011. The workshop brought together journaists from Angola and Mozambique. These Lusophone countries have not benefitted from previous Business Unusual training initiatives. Angola has previously been marginalised in the process to promote women's rights in SADC. The HOS summit therefore presented a strategic opportunity to carry the work of the SADC Gender Protocol Alliance forward. 


 
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Report on DRC BU SADC Protocol workshop

04 June 10
Regional relevance: Regional, South Africa
This is a report on the DRC Business Unusual workshop which was conducted during the SADC Heads of State Summit from the 7th -9th September 2009. The aim of the workshop was to publicise the economic provisions of the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development. [read more]

SADC journalists examine gender ahead of 2010

26 February 10
Regional relevance: Regional
While most people perceive the 2010 FIFA World Cup as a men’s show, some journalists in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) have made the commitment to keep gender on the media agenda heading into and after the 2010 World Cup. Through a regional “Business Unusual” programme initiated by Gender... [read more]

Report on the SADC Protocol and Soccer 2010 workshop

20 December 09
Regional relevance: Regional, South Africa
This report is based on the SADC Protocol and Soccer 2010 Business Unusual workshop conducted by Gender Links in Collaboration with the Zimbabwe Women Resource Centre and Newtwork (ZWRCN). [read more]

DRC Business Unusual workshop report

27 February 09
Regional relevance: DRC
La formation " Business unusual, - sur le genre, l'éconornie et les medias" s'est tenue du 19 au 23 janvier a Kinshasa en Republique Democratique de Congo. [read more]

Madagascar Business Unusual workshop report

28 November 08
Regional relevance: Madagascar
This report covers the key activities and outputs of the Madagascar Business Unusual training undertaken by Gender Links from 3 to 7 November 2008 with support from the Nederlands Instituut voor Zuldelijk Adfrica (NIZA) in collaboration with the Federation pour la promotion feminine et enfantine (FPFE) - GEMSA of... [read more]
 
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Who’s Feeling It? : Informal traders and the World Cup

17 May 10
Regional relevance: South Africa
As the whole country gears up for the quickly approaching World Cup 2010, not everyone is happy. Informal traders are waiting for a response this week from FIFA to demands made last week at a demonstration outside “Soccer City” protesting their exclusion from World Cup commerce. In the shadow of the Coca-Cola... [read more]

Traders protest exclusion from World Cup

12 May 10 | (1) Comment
Regional relevance: South Africa
Facing what they say is economic exclusion from South Africa's upcoming World Cup, informal traders marched on FIFA's South African headquarters in hopes of securing their place at the games, and their livelihoods. [read more]

The media and business women friends or foes - BU Malawi

05 June 06
Regional relevance: Malawi
The continued absence of successful women from the media and their often negative portrayal when they do appear is a frustration to them and concern to gender and media activists. [read more]

Survivors of violence take charge - BU Malawi

05 June 06
Regional relevance: Malawi
Just look at me, whispers Maness Mwale, ‘a typical working woman. You see, it is only a few hours ago that I arrived from Lizulu where I usually buy my goods on wholesale from small holder farmers. [read more]
 
 
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