Empowering female journalists to amplify the lived realities of African women
ACWJ provides training, grants, and advocacy. We work to ensure women's stories shape policy and public understanding across Africa.
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Born from the Newsroom
Founded by Vivian Serwanjja, ACWJ began as a response to the silence around women's stories in African media. Through an Afrocentric lens, we empower women journalists with tools to amplify women's realities and shift public narratives.
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Equality
Championing equal opportunities, representation, and recognition for women in and through the media.
Integrity
Upholding the highest ethical standards in journalism, advocacy, and organizational practice.
Inclusivity
Actively working to ensure marginalized women's voices are heard authentically and ethically.
Afrocentrism
Centering African contexts, narratives, solutions, and perspectives in all our work.
A woman's story, told her way.
This means reporting women's experiences through a feminist lens, exposing how issues truly affect them and stating these realities directly, without seeking external approval.
Media Advocacy
Our advocacy promotes media freedom and pushes for safer working conditions for female journalists. We engage with newsrooms to adopt gender-sensitive reporting standards and challenge policies that restrict coverage of women's rights. Through strategic campaigns and policy dialogue, we work to build an enabling environment for impactful journalism.
Grant Making Program
We provide micro-grants and project funding for reporting initiatives that center women's stories. Priority is given to projects focused on under-represented voices or those using innovative formats. These grants enable journalists to pursue ambitious reporting that might otherwise lack funding, bringing critical stories to light.
Research Program
We support the production of rigorous, evidence-based journalism on under-reported issues affecting African women. ACWJ provides journalists with research grants for investigative projects, training in research methodologies, and facilitated access to relevant data and subject-matter experts.
Training and Capacity Building
We provide specialized training in investigative techniques, data journalism, multimedia storytelling, and safety. Our programs, including immersive workshops and a robust mentorship program, build a deep understanding of issues like SRHR, economic justice, and climate change through an Afro-centric lens. The goal is to enhance the quality, depth, and impact of reporting on women's issues.
Lots of women suffer in silence
Our Amplify Her Voice initiative provides a platform for the critical stories that are often never told. We have a network of trained, professional female journalists across the continent ready to report on these issues.
Do you know of an issue, a challenge, or a story of resilience affecting women in your community?
Share her storyNaming the silence
You cannot be successful and not be called a sex worker or slurs like ashawo, which is a Nigerian term... From top to bottom, from the senator, right down to the woman who sells pepper by the road, you are called a prostitute.
