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Foundation for
Female Photojournalists - Africa
The Foundation for Female Photojournalists
(FFP) is a non-profit media and art advocacy and research organisation that
uses information communication technology (ICT) and other forms of media for
development. The organisation's mission is to advance the skills and prominence
of women photojournalists so that they might effectively advocate for the
rights and development of minority groups, especially women and children. FFP
carries this out by documenting and increasing society's awareness of the
achievements and challenges of women and children through photography and
video, by building the capacity of visual communicators and the media to
respond to women and children's rights issues, and by creating and providing
useable and accessible information for the development of women and children.
Communication
Strategies
FFP's strategy includes:
- Advocacy
- Work with media owners,
managers, editors and journalists on women's rights issues in the media.
- Disseminate development
information to women and policy makers through ICT.
- Provide information for
women to make informed decisions on their development.
- Give visibility to
women and their achievements through photo and video documentation.
- Work with communities
on social development issues within the concept of good governance.
- Work with communities
to produce experimental development cinema.
- Capacity Building - Offer periodic workshops and training for media
persons.
- Documentation/Research - Produce and research
videos on social issues by portraying women's perspectives. Conduct
research in rural communities on the use of media and arts as means of
human resource development.
- Economic Development/Poverty Alleviation - This is pursued
through the foundation’s Infonin Gallery and the Association of Visual
Communicators projects (CAV).
Motivated by the belief that access to information is key to women's and children's development, FFP also produces audiovisual and artistic information, education, and communication (IEC) materials. These materials are designed to enable the organisation to overcome language barriers and illiteracy in their advocacy and research initiatives.
Development Issues
Women, Rights, Democracy & Governance, Children.
Key Points
FFP started working in November 1998 as an initiative to create opportunities in the media for female photojournalists and photographers as well as to pursue women's development issues through the media. The quest was motivated by the Beijing platform for action adopted in 1995. FFP's objectives include:
- Contribute to social development through advocacy,
research, and networking using ICT
- Promote self-reliance and economic independence of
women visual communicators
- Document - and increase society's awareness of - the
achievements and challenges of minority groups, especially women and
children.
- Build the capacity of visual communicators and the
media to respond to women's and children's rights issues in a
developmental manner.
- Create and provide useable and accessible information
for the development of women and children.
Contact
Foundation for Female Photojournalists (FFP)
P.O. Box OS 1826
Osu
Accra
Ghana
Tel:
+ 233 244 658900
Fax:
+233 21 258811
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