Uks Workshop for Media Students
- Workshop for Media Students
Funded by WACC
Project – Gender Equality in Media: Beyond Advocacy and Awareness
Participants – Media Students.
Facilitators/Locations –
Islamabad, Quetta, Swat, Karachi. (20 sessions in 5 universities )
To train media students to analysis media content through gender lens using Uks and WACC’s tools and toolkits.
These sessions contributed towards creating gender-aware journalism students who could challenges the re-enforcement of sexism, gender-based roles, portrayal and stereotypes through news media in Pakistan
Funded by National Endowment for Democracy (NED – Phase-II)
Project – Gender Just Media Drive
Participants – 53 participants including faculty and students from various universities.
Facilitators/Locations –
Islamabad, Karachi
The aim of this consultation was to Gender-sensitise faculty and their role in sensitizing the students. To revise the existing curricula to ensure gender is taught as a course; and increased awareness and responsibility of mass communication department’s faculty and students as pro-active media watch groups using Uks’s gender-sensitive CoE and WMCC.
The participating universities list:
- Bahria University, Islamabad
- Islamic International University Islamabad
- NUST University, Islamabad.
- SZABIST University, Islamabad.
- Alama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad.
- Fatima Jinnah Women University, Rawalpindi.
- Riphah University, Islamabad
- NUML University, Islamabad.
- G.C University Lahore
- Preston University Islamabad
- University of Karachi, Karachi
- Federal Urdu University of Arts, Sciences and Technology, Karachi
- Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology, Karachi
- Bahria University, Karachi
- Aawaz Institute of Media Sciences, Karachi
- Greenwich University, Karachi
October-December, 2016
Funded by DAI AAWAZ Resource Fund
Project – Giving Voice to the Voiceless
Participants – 213
Trainer/Facilitator –
Amira Parveen (Mansehra), Amra Hussain (D.I.Khan), Amjad Ali (Swat), Hamza Ali (Kohat),
Partner universities in the selected 6 locations:
Hazara University Mansehra (43 students) – 15th December, 2016
Gomal University D.I.Khan (26 students) – 8th November, 2016
University of Swat (30 students) – 8th November, 2016
KUST University Kohat (30 students) – 12th August, 2016
Bacha Khan University Charsadda (27 students) – 26th October, 2016
University of Haripur (57 students) – 24th October, 2016
February – March, 2016
Funded by National Endowment for Democracy (NED)
Project – Gender Just Media Drive
Participants -162
Student Trainers/ locations –
Abdul Waheed & Muhammad Sipah (Turbat), Javid Mustafa & Arooj khan (Mardan), Sanober Shoro & Rasool Bukhsh (Hyderabad),
Masooma Mudasir & Muhammad Aqid (Peshawar), Naimus Sehar & Bushra Zahra (Multan), Haider Sherazi & Erum khan (Karachi), Afia Mushtaq & Mehak Khurrum (Islamaabad)
Each of the media coordinators at the conclusion of the session with university students identified two students who conducted these seven peer-to-peer outreach sessions to reach out to their peers and increase their awareness about their social responsibilities as media consumers. The journalists/coordinators assisted the students in conducting these sessions.
University of Turbat (28 participants) – 16th March, 2016
Abdul Wali Khan University (20 participants) – 10th March, 2016
Chambers of Commerce & Industries Hyderabad (26 participants) – 3rd March, 2016
Edwardes College Peshawar (19 participants) – 25th February, 2016
Bahaudin Zakariya University Multan (26 participants) – 24th February, 2016
Federal Urdu University Karachi (22 participants) – 23rd February, 2016
Islamic International University Islamabad (21 participants) – 18th Feb, 2016
Funded by DANIDA
Project – More Women in Media
Participants – Upto 1000
Trainer/Facilitator –
Tasneem Ahmar
In the first year of the project, Uks conducted five 2-day training workshops with groups of students from Media and Mass Communication departments of partner universities in major cities across Pakistan to spread awareness regarding the gender-sensitive Code of Ethics for media, sensitized reporting of women and gender issues and encouraging female students to come in the practical field.
In the second year of the project, Uks managed five 2-day training workshops with the same groups of students from Media and Mass Communication departments (trained earlier in the first year of the project) of partner universities for further awareness regarding the gender-sensitive Code of Ethics for media, producing sensitized media content on women and gender issues. The sessions aimed to encourage female students to pursue media as their careers while highlighting the social and workplace hurdles holding them back.
Partner Universities:
- Fatima Jinnah University, Rawalliindi
- University of lieshawar
- Federal Urdu University Karachi
- Islamia University Bahawalliur
- University of Baluchistan Quetta
- G.C University Faisalabad
Funded by National Endowment for Democracy (NED)
Project – Media Literacy
Participants – 12-14 students from each partner university
Trainer/Facilitator –
Rafia Arshad
Uks involved selected educational institutions for effective representation of youth. The training workshops focused on monitoring and analysis of the content of the media – p rint and television on selected issues and themes, inclusion of Media Literacy in Mass Communication and Gender Studies Department as a subject/tool and also skills of desk and field research imparted to students based on media monitoring, audience feedback to gauge viewer reception across strata, cities and demographic groups through Audiences’ Forum.
Year One (12 Students each University):
Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad
Fatima Jinnah Women‘s University, Rawalpindi
Lahore College University, Lahore
Federal Urdu University, Karachi
University of Peshawar, Peshawar
Islamia University, Bahawalpur
Two (12-14 students each university):
SZABIST, Islamabad
Federal Urdu University, Karachi
University of the Punjab, Lahore
KUST University Kohat
International Islamic University, Islamabad
Bahauddin Zikriya University, Multan
Islamia University, Bahawalpur
Hazara University, Mansehra
Funded by UNFPA
Project – Motivating Pakistani Youth into Changing Mindsets through Development of Sensitive Media Content on Gender-Based Violence (GBV)
Participants -1035
Trainer/Facilitator –
Tasneem Ahmar
Saadia Haq
two training workshops were:
5-day training workshop was held in Karachi
3-day training workshop was held in Islamabad
Funded by National Endowment for Democracy
Project – Promoting Public Discourse on Media Content in Pakistan
Participants – 12 students from each academic institute.
Trainer/Facilitator –
Sumera Abbasi
Orientation sessions with students of Gender Studies and Mass Communication Departments to impart knowledge and skills on how to analyse and draw meanings from their media experiences.
The trained students were to hold FGDs with public as media consumers, aimed at educating and empowering the people -viewers and readers – about their rights and responsibilities regarding the media and to promote Media Literacy through a culture of dialogue and analysis.
The following universities participated in the study:
- Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad,
- Fatima Jinnah Women’s University, Rawalpindi
- Lahore College University, Lahore
- Federal Urdu University, Karachi
- University of Peshawar, Peshawar,
- Islamia University, Bahawalpur