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Humanitarian Reporting Award 2013 – Deadline Extended
31 August 2013

Zimbabwe faces humanitarian challenges that until recently have not been receiving much coverage due to lack of adequate media attention; a situation the Humanitarian Information Facilitation Centre (HIFC) is addressing through its mentorship programme. Further, donor attention has shifted from Zimbabwe to other crises for various reasons. It is with this in mind that HIFC and OCHA have initiated media awards for humanitarian reporting in the country. This is done as part of efforts to encourage journalists to cover humanitarian issues. The winning journalists will be announced and receive their awards at belated World Humanitarian Day (WHD) commemoration. WHD was declared in 2008 and is marked on the 19th of August annually. It was first commemorated in 2009 but is still not widely known. Consequently, it has not received much media and public attention. The awards therefore serve the dual purpose of bringing attention to humanitarian issues currently affecting Zimbabwe and the importance of World Humanitarian Day.

Objectives
-To encourage media coverage of humanitarian issues affecting Zimbabwe
-To commemorate World Humanitarian Day
-To raise awareness of WHD and the humanitarian work being done in Zimbabwe
-To highlight new/innovative humanitarian projects in Zimbabwe

Eligibility criteria
The contest will be open to all journalists who are based in Zimbabwe regardless of whether they are working for the print, electronic or web-based media.  Only stories of a humanitarian nature will be considered for the competition. Humanitarian issues will be defined within the scope of the cluster system and the work of humanitarian clusters in Zimbabwe.

Categories
-Print
-Broadcast- Radio And Tv (Audio And Visual)
-Online
-Gender Award (Gender should be within a humanitarian context)

Submissions
The submission of entries has been extended to 31 August 2013, to allow for receipt of more entries.
Only one submission per journalist will be accepted.
Only stories from August 2012 to date will be considered.
Only submissions made through the following ways within the stipulated dates will be accepted:

Electronically through an email address that has been created for this competition: humanitarianawardzim2013 [at] gmail [dot] com

Or

Delivery of articles in a sealed envelope clearly marked Humanitarian Reporting Awards 2013 Zimbabwe (specify category) to the HIFC offices at: 38 Harvey Brown Avenue, Milton Park, Harare Zimbabwe

Adjudication
The adjudication process will take place soon after the closing date, 31 August 2013. The judges shall remain anonymous and their names will be made public on the day of the awards.

Prizes
The prizes will be announced and awarded to the winning journalists during the 2013 belated World Humanitarian Day commemoration.

Zimbabwean / Dutch musician Rina Mushonga has composed a beautiful and moving tribute to her friend and music shero, Chiwoniso Maraire, who died last month.

You can access the song online at Sound Cloud here or email products [at] kubatana [dot] net with Sister in the subject line, and we will email it to you (4.2MB).

You can watch Rina singing Sister and talking about her friendship with Chiwoniso here

And, if you like this song, get more of Rina’s music like her new EP via iTunes and visit her website

Source: This isn’t happiness

A home filled with nothing but yourself. It’s heavy, that lightness. It’s crushing, that emptiness. – Margaret Atwood, The Tent

Protection and promotion of the interests of disadvantaged and disabled women in Africa

Date: Wed 28 Aug, 2013

Time: 5.30 – 7pm

Venue: Book Café, 139 Samora Machel Ave/6th Street

The rapid integration of world economy has transformed the world at large and its women. However, it has ushered in its way many changes of immense significance and fresh opportunities. Though a great deal of progress has been done to protect and promote the interests of disadvantaged and disabled women, more efforts are required to create a sense of awareness and confidence to enable them to become active participants in the process of social transformation and regeneration. WHERE ARE WE NOW IN AFRICA?

Marlene Le Roux, Director of Artscape Audience Development and Education Artistic Program (Cape Town) is joined by Soneni Gwizi (Radio Broadcaster, Gender & Disability Activist) together with Cleopatra Ndlovu (Gender Activist) as they interrogate issues that affect disabled women and how much advocacy is being done vis-a-vis what needs to be done in regards to the protection and promotion of the interests of disadvantaged and disabled women in Africa.

In November 2009, Harare arts development organization, Pamberi Trust, created a platform for the discussion of gender and women’s issues at Book Café in Harare.  Aimed at contributing to initiatives of advancing gender equality and promoting women’s rights in Zimbabwe, the Book Café Gender Forum has become a popular space for tackling issues of concern guided by audience responses.

The Book Cafe Gender Forum is a monthly discussion, targeting human rights activists, members of civic society, and members of the general public.  This month’s discussion is hosted by the Book Café Gender Forum in partnership with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.

The discussion is FREE and all are welcome.