Theme pack
Here is our third monthly theme pack of FRI resources. This month it’s all about gender. The theme pack includes 13 scripts and 11 Barza Wire stories.
This collection represents some of the best resources on gender that we’ve published over the past decade.
Scripts
- Teaching youth about sexuality
- Gender mainstreaming in farmers’ co-operative: Groups in Ghana achieve food security for small-scale farmers
- Maternal health, part one
- Maternal health, part two
- Violence against women and HIV/AIDS
- Maternal postpartum depression
- No more female genital cutting: Villages in Senegal celebrate 10 years of women’s rights
- Widow cleansing: ‘Good’ intentions – negative consequences
- Local groups in Cameroon work to eradicate ‘breast ironing’
- Gender and HIV/AIDS
- Promote gender equality and empower women
- Women’s right to land is necessary for community development
Barza Wire stories
- East Africa: Taking rural women’s issues to the top
- Mozambique: Woman builds lychee fruit export business (UN Women)
- Kenya: Women’s co-operatives provide microfinance support to ease burden of HIV (IPS)
- Mali: Women of Balimaya taking care of (fruit drying) business (Africa Report)
- Kenya: Tea tree success launches gender discussion in arid Kenya (Trust)
- Mali: Women preserve local seeds
- Tanzania: Girls struggle to avoid forced marriage, yearn to learn (IPS)
- Ghana: Ten thousand Queen Mothers take their power and drive change (Trust)
- Cameroon: Rural woman uses mobile app to get information on maternal health
- Tanzania: Women farmers speak out against domestic violence
- South Sudan: ‘Real men don’t marry children’ (Internews)