Inter-African Network for Women, Media, Gender and Development (FAMEDEV) is a women’s rights organization headquartered in Dakar, Senegal.
The NGO was founded in 2001 by women and men involved in media, communication, education and information. The founding members of FAMEDEV are predominantly women and its executive board is predominantly composed of women journalists and communicators.
FAMEDEV works with women’s media networks, media associations, journalists’ unions, other women’s NGOs, media companies and individuals.
Our targets are networks of women in the media, women journalists, communicators, and women leaders engaged in the media such as owners of press organs or senior officials.
FAMEDEV is also interested in women members of media regulatory bodies, women members of Journalists’ Unions, individual journalists, young women and girls who are victims of all kinds of violence such as domestic violence, harmful cultural practices such as genital mutilation, forced and early marriages affecting the health and rights of women and finally, women facing the scourge of HIV/AIDS because we are increasingly seeing the feminization of the pandemic.
Male journalists also benefit from some of FAMEDEV’s activities such as training, especially those relating to gender and human rights and those on HIV/AIDS.
FAMEDEV is a member of the following networks:
– Solidarity for African Women’s Rights (SOAWR) based in Nairobi;
– African Women’s Network for Communication and Development (FEMNET); based in Nairobi
– Global Media Forum Development (GMFD). Based in Belgium.