Gaborone — Media training institutions are taking "gender equality in and through the media" - the slogan of gender and media activists - to new heights. The recently ended SADC Gender Protocol@Work Summit 2015, in Gaborone Botswana, witnessed seven institutions of higher learning from Malawi, South Africa Mauritius, Mozambique and Zimbabwe share best practices on gender in media education.
Clayton Moyo, broadcast journalism instructor at the National University of Science and Technology, Zimbabwe noted that institutions need cooperation, partnerships and multi-prong approaches to achieving gender. "Change is not an event but a process and if institutions are not seeing immediate change they need not be deterred but carry on. Institutionalising gender work, is one of the ways you can sustain these kind of processes."
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