Reporting on SDGS, Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment in Tanzania

Gender Links and Tanzania GMBS, GMPS, GEM Summits Training GEMSA – GEMSAT COE for Gender in the Media COE for Gender in Media Education GMDC

SADC Protocol on Gender and Dev Gender in media policy and training Gender equality in ownership and in newsrooms Equal voice of women and men in media content Portrayal of women Sensitivity in coverage of sensitive topics – GBV, HIV and AIDS

Steps in the Gender, SDG, Media 1. Inception meeting (Feb) 2. Buy –in (Feb-March) 3. Baseline monitoring (March) 4. Handbook (April) 5 Training and field work (UN Women) –May/ June 6 Summit – August 7 Sixteen Days of Activism (Nov/ Dec) 8. Endline Monitoring

Proposed media to engage Who are the key media in the country? How can they be engaged to seek buy in and commitment to the process ? Are they present at this meeting Proposed news titles for monitoring Ownership Centre of excellence for Gender in the media Present at meeting Daily News Public   1 Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation Mwananchi Private The Citizen (newsroom under Mwananchi) Clouds Media Free Media Upendo Media Tumaini Media Print Business Times Limited Times FM (a newsroom under Business Times Unlimited) Channel Ten Abood Media The Guardian 10 6

Baseline monitoring Monitoring of 15 key media houses in Tanzania Engaging journalism students to assist in the media monitoring as part of institutional effectives an influencing a journalism cadre that is gender sensitive Proposed for March 2018 Monitoring over a month equating to 14 staggered days Monitoring of Print, Radio and Television news titles/newsrooms

Handbook Develop and disseminate a media handbook . Strengthening and influencing the capacity of journalists editors and media managers in Tanzania media houses. Shared at a media roundtable to spark discussion on how best media houses can tack gender imbalances in news content The roundtable will also propose ways on how best the media can champion the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Training workshop Purpose- Strengthen media capacity on reporting gender aware and responsive coverage of the news Device an editorial plan that journalists commit to especially indepth feature stories in different formats. This will also include briefing meeting with editors, managers and publishers to seek buy in into

Field work As part of the project journalists will cover stories from different localities . This will assist journalists to come up with content which features people whose voices and concerns hardly make it to the news. This content This content can be aired or published in the journalists newsrooms

Gender and Media Summit A platform for peer learning and sharing amongst media professionals on gender aware and responsive practices. It will affirm good practices gender responsive journalism and coverage of SDG 5

Progress media monitoring A follow up survey on the key media houses will be conducted. This will give a comparative analysis to check improvement or lack thereof in coverage f gender equality in the media and whether there is an increased prioritisation of gender equality and women empowerment in news coverage UN Women will publish a pamphlet with key results from this monitoring

1. methodology and tool group work Who are the main media in the country Is it a representative sample Is the 14 staggered days time frame for media monitoring adequate? Comment on the SDG 5 questions How can they be framed better.

2. Training and handbook Existing materials What to include Language Dissemination Checklist How much, how little Application

3. Summit Who to invite How to structure How to incentivise excellence How to profile Categories for the awards How to sustain good practise