- Program Civil Society
- Program Area Special Initiatives
- Grant Amount $75,000
- Grant Period January 1, 2005–December 31, 2006
- Location Durban, South Africa
- Geographic Focus South Africa
About this grant
This grant will enable Agenda Feminist Media to publish its quarterly journal that addresses women’s issues in South Africa. The organization’s mission is to provide women with a vehicle and the skills to voice their needs and interests.Funding will support the publication and distribution of eight issues of the journal over the next two years, as well as a writing program, which will service 48 writers and 48 mentors; weekly dispatches to community radio stations, translated into local languages, on themes related to gender; an internship program that will support two journal interns and four radio interns; and a Web site to convey information on gender to a broad audience.Currently, 34 radio stations use the information distributed by Agenda, which is translated into four local languages with an estimated audience of 9.5 million listeners. During the past two years, eight issues of the journal were published; six interns completed the internship program – four in radio and two in journalism; and 36 writers and 36 mentors were trained through the writing program.