Impact

Topic: Africa

  • The Undocumented Handshake: Is Peace at Home?

    Trainers blog, by Juma John Stephen Political events have been developing at an unprecedented speed in the Horn of Africa in recent months. First there was Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and opposition National Super Alliance (NASA) leader Raila Odinga’s peace handshake this year, which was followed by a handshake between President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda

  • JHR-trained reporters at Bakhita Radio received journalism awards on World Radio Day

      By Mustapha Dumbuya , Trainer South Sudan Late last year, a long boisterous conversation ensued in the Bakhita Radio newsroom among reporters after a disclosure by their news editor that the Catholic Radio Network (CRN) had been given an award by Community Empowerment for Progress Organisation (CEPO) — a leading civil society group —

  • The Future of Journalism

    By Hannah Clifford, Program Manager It was 5:30 in the morning and we had just hit submit. The application was finally in. JHR had been fortunate enough to be shortlisted for funding for a pilot program in South Africa and we had finished the application in the nick of time. The tiredness I was feeling

  • jhr funds project to bring domestic violence awareness to rural communities in Africa

    In addition to training local journalists on human rights reporting, as a part of our programming overseas, jhr provides grants to local African NGO’s as a way of advancing local growth.   In 2009 jhr funded a campaign on the prevention of domestic violence in collaboration with the Sierra Leone Red Cross Society. The SLRCS