5. High Points of Your Work This Year
• Training: Training of trainers, facilitating trainings
• Networking: Presentations to women forums on leadership topics
• Seeing Program Results: Leadership development and jobs
• Program: Design, measurement, capacity building, and funding proposals
• Funding: Liaison with funders
• Learning: Formal research, networking and participation in conferences
• Advocacy: Promoting young women's rights on different platforms
• Political Space: Our voice being heard
7. Challenges of Your Work This Year
• Funding for programs, scholarships, and staffing, sustainable funding
• Limited staffing and skills
• Transitions
• Measurement and monitoring of programs
• Limited Resources for training, teaching materials
• Language barriers in program delivery
• Internet connectivity
• Community education about feminism and are against women’s
development
• Personal security and safety
8. Three Top Work Related Priorities
• Donor Communications
Organizational Culture: values, innovation, motivating, inspiring,
• Leadership and Management of Organization
• Fundraising
• Communications Strategy for Organization
• Leadership Development Program
• Other Program Development
• Measuring Impact
• Women’s Movement Building
• Networking
• Advocacy
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11. What do you think is the biggest value for using social media and the Internet
effectively for online networking leadership program curriculum development, or
strategic communications for your organization?
• Free, affordable tools and easy to share with many people
• Easy to get feedback from women around the world
• Fast, but unreliable
• Powerful way to spread messages about our work and impact
• Younger women are our target audience and they engage more on social
media and Internet (when no barrier of Internet connectivity)
• It is fun and reaches many young people with access to internet
• Bridge between physical meetings
“Social media has been an explosion in spreading ideas and calling for action.
Women's rights organisations, including ours, need to make use of this
medium that has reach beyond our wildest expectations.”
12. 12. What do you think is the biggest challenge for using social media and the
Internet effectively for online networking leadership program curriculum
development, or strategic communications for your organization?
Connectivity Issues: Power failures, lack of broadband
Women in rural areas, disadvantaged situations, poverty, and urban settlements
do no have access due to costs or lack of Internet access
“However on our part, Internet and mobile phones are instrumental in
collecting opinions, insights and sharing ideas and opportunities. We cannot
move into the future if we don't use social media, mobile, and the internet.”
Lack of designated staff member to undertake the task
Not used the internet for curriculum development and we wish that we could.
13. Success Stories – Areas of Pride with Social Media/Tech
Organization for Women in Self Employment (WISE)
a website through which we share our information to others.
Akilah Institute for Women
We used the internet to develop and implement the Akilah Leadership &
Mentoring program. At some point we even had her deliver a section of
the curriculum to Mentors via skype. We also did the fundraising through
the Internet.
14. Young Women's Leadership Institute
YWLI has a diverse network of young women and has opened a safe space
for your women to discuss various issues affecting them while sharing their
opinions progressively. This has seen a lot of information shared amongst
young women from all over the country and has allowed us to compile
young women's thoughts around various contentious issues.
Mobilizing young women to participate in elections and governance
We have a very vibrant network of young women online who share ideas,
challenge issues, form action groups, blog on our website etc, A large part
of our work depends on our online interactions.
Akina Mama wa Afrika
we are using it to link our alumni working in gender and forced migration
We have a Twitter and Facebook account that we use on a daily basis to
update our donors and partners.
15. Can you briefly describe an inspiring example of how women's leadership programs in
your country including your organization have use social media to build and support a
network or movement?
• It has not yet developed because of the low development of our internet system.
We simply use it to share information.
• Warembo ni Yes, a movement of young women pushing for the adoption of the
new constitution in 2010 in Kenya
• RAUW (Rwanda Association of University Women) has used the social media to
connect many women leaders across Rwanda and other countries. And through
this social media group women have been able to share resources and find
leadership opportunities
• Our online network supported adolescent girls who are survivors of sexual
violence, they also supported a young disabled woman access a wheel chair and
medical assistance.
• Akilah regularly uses social media to spread word about their application process
and students advertise to their friends and encourage them to apply
20. Is there anything else you’d like us to know about your
organization’s use of social media and technology?
“We are very committed to the empowerment of women and
we perceive that technology is the only effective channel to
sustainable development. Social media and technology in our
country is picking up every fast but there are a few challenges
that we encounter when using the internet that limit its
effectiveness.”
“We are inconsistent and most of the staff we are not used to
using technology and social media.”
Notes de l'éditeur
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Mostly positive views .."Cost and time effectiveness. Can be shared by many. Easiness" As young women are our constituency, they engage more on social media and the Internet. Of course this is limited to how many young women can access the internet. It is cost effective and very easy to use "It can be shared with various groups across the world both as a tool and for feedback.It is fast, often reliable and available to many organizationsIt is fun and reaches many young people with access to internet.It reaches a huge mass of women from across the globe." Social media has been an explosion in spreading ideas and calling for action. Women's rights organisations, including ours, need to make use of this medium that has reach beyond our wildest expectations. "curriculum developmentPROVIDES SUPPORT BEYOND PHYSICAL MEETINGS and follow up as well as clarificationsstrategic communicationscan enable reaching a large audience at minimal cost" -Its a powerful and affordable way to spread the message about our work and impact.
Note: Future session might focus specifically on mobile integrationNetwork problems that are existent in our country. Power failure. Lack of broadband connection.The biggest challenge would be our network members in rural areas or disadvantaged situations who have limited or no access to the Internet or social media.The biggest challenge is the breake down in communication due to internet failure/ poor networkThere very many young women who do not have access to internet hence it can be limiting their access to online informationWomen in the urban settlements do not have internet and due to poverty many cannot afford to visit cyber cafe'sInternet connection costs for some young women. However on our part, it has proved instrumental in collecting opinions, insights etc and sharing ideas and opportunities. We cannot move into the future if we don't use social media and the internet. Kenya has a high mobile phone penetration rate. Access to mobile phone internet is growing. How do we spread our messages in this context?frequent power cuts that affects internet serviceslack of designated staff member to undertake the task-We have not used the internet for curriculum development and we wish that we could.
Organization for Women in Self Employment (WISE)We have a website through which we share our information to others. Akilah Institute for WomenWhen developing the Akilah Leadership & Mentoring Program I had to work with Anne Mortensen one of the program supporters to develop the mentoring curriculum and also had to develop the program proposal for fundraising via the internet. We majorly used the internet to develop and implement the Akilah Leadership & Mentoring program.At some point we even had her deliver a section of the curriculum to Mentors via skype. So this is one of the experiences that I evidently know has been successful and I am proud of what social media and internet can do Young Women's Leadership InstituteYWLI has a diverse network of young women and has opened a safe space for your women to discuss various issues affecting them while sharing their opinions progressively. This has seen a lot of information shared amongst young women from all over the country and has allowed us to compile young women's thoughts around various contentious issues. Mobilizing young women to participate in elections and governance We have a very vibrant network of young women online who share ideas, challenge issues, form action groups, blog on our website etc, A large part of our work depends on our online interactions. Akina Mama waAfrikawe are using it to link our alumni working n gender and forced migration We have a Twitter and facebook account that we use on a daily basis to update our donors and partners.
Organization for Women in Self Employment (WISE)We have a website through which we share our information to others. Akilah Institute for WomenWhen developing the Akilah Leadership & Mentoring Program I had to work with Anne Mortensen one of the program supporters to develop the mentoring curriculum and also had to develop the program proposal for fundraising via the internet. We majorly used the internet to develop and implement the Akilah Leadership & Mentoring program.At some point we even had her deliver a section of the curriculum to Mentors via skype. So this is one of the experiences that I evidently know has been successful and I am proud of what social media and internet can do Young Women's Leadership InstituteYWLI has a diverse network of young women and has opened a safe space for your women to discuss various issues affecting them while sharing their opinions progressively. This has seen a lot of information shared amongst young women from all over the country and has allowed us to compile young women's thoughts around various contentious issues. Mobilizing young women to participate in elections and governance We have a very vibrant network of young women online who share ideas, challenge issues, form action groups, blog on our website etc, A large part of our work depends on our online interactions. Akina Mama waAfrikawe are using it to link our alumni working n gender and forced migration We have a Twitter and facebook account that we use on a daily basis to update our donors and partners.
Will use “Campfire” technique … to get them to share of these storiesIt has not yet developed because of the low development of our internet system. We simply use it to share information. We were part of Waremboni Yes, a movement of young women pushing for the adoption of the new constitution in 2010. Much of the mobilization was over twitter, facebook and googlegroups. We routinely use social media to mobilize young women around issues. Yes,I am very inspired by the RAUW (Rwanda Association of University Women) which is not necessarily a leadership program but it has used the social media to connect many women leaders across Rwanda and other countrie. And through this social media group women have been able to share resources and find leadership opportunities Through our social media sites i.e. Face book, our website and Google groups many young women have helped each other through information, though offering employment opportunities, encouraging each other and getting assistance where need be. Last year the members of our online network supported adolescent girls who are survivors of Sexual Violence, they also supported a young disabled woman access a wheel chair and medical assistance. We were a key part of the Warembo Ni Yes campaign to get young women to vote for the proposed constitution of Kenya. Ultimately the 'yes' votes prevailed and we have a constitution that upholds women's rights. use is not wide spread -We regularly use social media to spread the word about our application process, and our students advertise to their friends and encourage them to apply to Akilah.
Mixed comfort level, will have create supportive environment so those comfortable can assist those not comfortable
-Twitter individual module: scaffold-Wikispaces: scaffold-Facebook: will need to get the 1 person who isn’t on FB on FB so we can all use the group – may have discussion of pros/cons of FB vs Email – FB is better for networking-LinkedIn: was not originally included, but good to see usage – will prepare some “on demand tutorials”-Interesting to see high level of use of YouTube – perhaps for browsing only, not production