Deadline: 19-Jan-24
Taboom Media is inviting activists and human rights defenders to apply for the Media Advocacy for LGBTQI+ Equality Workshop.
This course aims to help civil society organisations from across Africa create and deliver media advocacy strategies, campaigns, and stories that advance LGBTQI+ equality.
Workshop Information
- Regional expert trainers and guest speakers will lead practical daily sessions about numerous media advocacy and storytelling techniques.
- The program includes training sessions on media campaign design, audience identification, messaging, framing, safety, social media, press interviews, press releases and op-eds, community events, crisis communications, communicating with religious groups, evaluation, and more.
- This workshop is designed to be interactive and participant-driven. Each selected fellow will share at least one media advocacy skill/platform/strategy/approach with the group during a 10-minute Spotlight Session.
- Participants will also write stories of change, craft media campaigns, and provide group feedback during the week in a supportive and safe environment.
Benefit
- Taboom will pay stipends for successfully completed stories and campaigns.
What you have to do?
- This is a time-intensive workshop.
- Participants are required to attend all sessions and complete nightly homework during the four days of training.
- During and after the workshop, participants will:
- write one advocacy story (with mentor-editor support) to be included in the Queer Activism in Africa book series and
- produce one media campaign benefiting their advocacy group.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible participants must live in Africa, be affiliated with a civil society organisation that serves sexual/gender minorities, and have working proficiency in English.
- This workshop is for activists and human rights defenders (not journalists, for whom they will host a separate workshop later this year).
- Past participants of the region-wide workshops (online or offline) are not eligible to apply.
- Past participants of the country-specific workshops are eligible to apply.
For more information, visit Taboom Media.