Apply for Media Advocacy for LGBTQI+ Equality Workshop (Africa)

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.