Latest NewsBILL WATCH PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES SERIES [20th January 2012] Committee Meetings Open to the Public: 23rd to 27th January The two meetings listed below will be open to members of the public, but as observers only, not as participants, i.e. members of the public can listen but not speak. The meetings will be held at Parliament in Harare, entrance on Kwame Nkrumah Ave between 2nd and 3rd Streets. Note: This bulletin is based on the latest information released by Parliament on 20th January. But, as there are sometimes last-minute changes to the schedule, persons wishing to attend a meeting should avoid possible disappointment by checking with the relevant committee clerk [see below] that the meeting is still on and still open to the public. Parliament's telephone numbers are Harare 700181 and 252936. If attending, please use the Kwame Nkrumah Ave entrance to Parliament. IDs must be produced. Monday 23rd January at 10 am Portfolio Committee: Transport and Infrastructure Development Oral evidence from ZINARA [Zimbabwe National Road Administration] on tollgate fees collection and progress made in 2011 Committee Room No. 1 Chairperson: Hon Chebundo Clerk: Ms Macheza Thursday 26th January at 10 am Portfolio Committee: Media, Information and Communication Technology Oral evidence from the ZIMPOST Managing Director on the operations of ZIMPOST Committee Room No. 413 Chairperson: Hon S. Moyo Clerk: Mr Mutyambizi Other Committee Business Other committees will be meeting during the week, but in closed session for purposes such as preparing for future meetings and considering draft reports. Forthcoming public hearings: the Portfolio Committee on Health and Child Welfare will be considering its itinerary for public hearings on hospital user fees. Reports under consideration cover the following subjects: . the state of prisons [Thematic Committee on Human Rights]; the CMED audit [Public Accounts Committee]; . the Electoral Amendment Bill [Portfolio Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs, Constitutional and Parliamentary Affairs]; . residential care institutions [Public Services, Labour and Social Welfare]; . operations of Air Zimbabwe; familiarization tour of ZESA power stations; ZESA service delivery to the nation [Portfolio Committee on State Enterprise and Parastatals]; . local authority service delivery in Gutu and Chiredzi [Portfolio Committee on Local Government, Rural and Urban Development]; . vocational training centres [Portfolio Committee on Women, Youth, Gender and Community Development]; . education sector challenges[ Portfolio Committee on Education, Sport and Culture]. These reports, once adopted, will only become public when presented to the Senate [thematic committees] or the House of Assembly [portfolio committees] when sittings resume at the end of February.
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International and Media Scholarship Programmes
The conference organizing partners are committed to making AIDS 2012 accessible to people from resource-limited settings, researchers globally, community activists and civil society representatives. Priority will be given to those whose participation will help enhance their work in their own communities, to those who are able to assist in the transfer of skills and knowledge acquired at the conference, and to those whose abstract, workshop or activity submission has been selected.
A very limited number of scholarships will also be available for media representatives from around the world. Media scholarship applicants will be asked to provide media accreditation and supporting documents.
Scholarship applications close on 15 February 2012.
The FEDERATION OF AFRICAN MEDIA WOMEN ZIMBABWE (FAMWZ) board and the Secretriat extend their heartfelt condolences to the Moyo family, on the untimely and tragic passing on of Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) Current Affairs manager, Freedom Moyo, in the early hours of Tuesday, 17th January 2012. Moyo was involved in a car accident on Saturday morning and was admitted at the West End clinic where he passed on.We received with shock and profound sadness the news of Freedom Moyo’s death.Moyo was an outstanding senior journalist who was very popular among his peers and had a very successful career in journalism. He cut his teeth in journalism as the ZBC Bureau Chief for Matebeleland South province before moving to Matabeleland North province in the same capacity.He was later promoted and became ZBC’s Manager for Bulletins in Harare before later becoming the Current Affairs manager, a position he held until his death. He will be sorely missed by all in the journalism field and we pray that the comforting spirit of the Lord be with his family and friends during this difficult time.
Underwritten by Africa's only continental umbrella association of media owners and operators, the African Media Initiative (AMI), the fund is designed to kickstart experimentation with new technologies. Winners will receive seed grants ranging from $12,500 to a maximum of $100,000 for more ambitious projects. To ensure that grantees build robust business models, winners will also receive technical advice and start-up support, as well as one-on-one mentoring from some of the world’s leading media experts. The contest will target solutions to technology challenges facing African media, including ways to strengthen data-based investigative journalism, audience engagement, mobile news distribution, data visualization, revenue streams and workflow systems. AMI will launch the contest website in December 2011. In the first phase, African journalists and publishers will be asked to identify the most pressing challenges facing the industry. Once these have been identified, AMI will issue a call for applications targeting these issues in February 2012. Winners will be chosen through a rigorous two-phase judging process, consisting of public voting and a review of finalists by a panel of experts. The top contenders will receive a combination of cash and technical support. Winners will then test their innovations in AMI member-newsrooms and showcase projects at international media gatherings. The African innovation contest is part of AMI’s broader initiative to build digital entrepreneurship within traditional media. AMI is also supporting a new network of HacksHackers.com chapters across Africa that will bring technologists together with journalists to help pilot projects in digital media. The chapters will run workshops and help incubate ideas for the African News Innovation Challenge. ANIC is supported by Google, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ), the Knight Foundation, the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS), Omidyar Network, the US State Department, and the World Association of Newspapers & News Producers (WAN-IFRA).
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The Federation of African Media Women Zimbabwe (FAMWZ) is a non-governmental organisation that was established in 1985.It was set up as a voluntary association of women working in both the print and electronic media.Its formation was out of the realisation that women were not only being marginalised in the mainstream media and publishing activities but also that for along time, issues of critical importance to women were trivialised.
From 1985, FAMWZ’s work primarily focused on empowering media women through training and advocacy on issues affecting them.FAMWZ later broadened its focus to work with grassroots communities in Mashonaland and Matabeleland.The Development Through radio (DTR) project, a key success story not only for the organisation but also the grassroots women, helped provide rural women with a voice and a forum in development.
With the growth of the organisation and the dynamism of the operating environment, FAMWZ re-positioned itself strategically to retain its relevance in development.In line with this, the organisation went through an Organisational Development (OD) process, which helped steer it to a new lease of life through redefining its identity, vision and goals.The OD process also resulted in FAMWZ undergoing gender mainstreaming to strengthen its gender advocacy role as well as the adoption of HIV and Aids as a central six-year theme around its programming.
