Media Focus On Africa
  • Home
  • Who We Are
  • Our Projects
    • Kenya
    • Uganda
    • Netherlands
  • News
  • Resources
    • Annual Reports
    • Kenya Media Week Reports
  • Contact Us
MS PRESIDENT: KENYA’S FIRST REALITY SHOW ON LEADERSHIP PREMIERES
MS PRESIDENT: KENYA’S FIRST REALITY SHOW ON LEADERSHIP PREMIERES

MS PRESIDENT: KENYA’S FIRST REALITY SHOW ON LEADERSHIP PREMIERES

Simon Gicia January 30, 2019

The first ever of its kind reality series on leadership is set to begin showing on Kenyan screens this coming 30th January 2019. Ms President Reality TV show will see tens of women from across Kenya compete to win the ‘Presidency’.

Women with exemplary community projects and passionate about bringing social change applied to participate in the show after a call for participation was released in June 2018. After a thorough shortlisting based on the answers submitted in the application forms received from close to a 1000 women from all corners of the country, at least 375 were invited for auditions in five major towns in Kenya.

Ms President, a 26-episode reality television series, will captivate the national audience with 71 extraordinary women leaders going through a series of tasks and challenges designed to display their leadership capacity and ability.

The women representing the majority of counties across Kenya will have to survive through viewers’ votes and judges’ decisions, until the last one emerges as the “Ms President”. The winner and the 5 finalists will receive additional leadership mentorship opportunities.

Underrepresentation

During Kenya’s 2017 elections, of the 1450 Wards, women were only elected into 96. Of the 290 Constituencies in Kenya, women were elected in only 23 of those. Only 3 women were elected Senators from the 47 slots available, the same with Governors.

Ms President hopes to empower Kenyan women to build sustainable capacity for effective leadership especially in the areas of conflict management, peace building and crisis preparedness.

“Despite the constitutional principle for two thirds gender rule, women are still under-represented in public service, political leadership and corporate leadership. The legal framework alone will not suffice in the achievement of the gender parity in leadership.

“Concerted efforts especially those targeting to alter attitudes, perceptions and stereotypes regarding women and leadership are a necessity. Ms President is one such effort,” said Harrison Manga, Programmes Manager, Media Focus on Africa, the organization producing the show.

social media

Social Media Feed

Updates from Uganda & Kenya

Facebook Kenya

This message is only visible to admins.
Problem displaying Facebook posts. Backup cache in use.
Click to show error
Error: Error validating access token: The session has been invalidated because the user changed their password or Facebook has changed the session for security reasons. Type: OAuthException
Media Focus on Africa

1 month ago

Media Focus on Africa
Change begins at the grassroots level. Ahead of the #MsPresident community dialogues, we're training facilitators to lead meaningful discussions that encourage women's leadership participation. Let's empower women at the community level.@CanHCKenya @unwomenkenya @euinkenya ... See MoreSee Less

Photo

View on Facebook
· Share

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email

Media Focus on Africa

1 month ago

Media Focus on Africa
At MFA, we're committed to promoting gender equality in leadership. It is why we're going to engage communities on topics covered in the Ms President show. Join us in enhancing women's participation in politics and decision making.#empoweringwomen #mspresidentcommunitydialogues ... See MoreSee Less

Photo

View on Facebook
· Share

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email

Facebook Uganda

This message is only visible to admins.
Problem displaying Facebook posts.
Click to show error
Error: Server configuration issue

Twitter Kenya

[fts_twitter twitter_name=Media_Focus tweets_count=12 twitter_height=400px cover_photo=no stats_bar=no show_retweets=no show_replies=no]

Twitter Uganda

[fts_twitter twitter_name=@MFAUganda tweets_count=12 twitter_height=400px cover_photo=no stats_bar=no show_retweets=no show_replies=no]

Annual Report 2019

https://mediafocusonafrica.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/ANNUAL-REPORT-2019-FINAL.pdf

CONTACT US

  • Kenya Email: info@mediafocusonafrica.org
  • Kenya Phone: +254 711 403 555
  • Uganda Email: infouganda@mediafocusonafrica.com
  • Uganda Phone: +254 755 146 541
  • Netherlands Email: info@mediafocusonafrica.com
  • Netherlands Phone: +31 6429 90149

FEATURED POSTS

  • Rural Based Journalists trained on digital inclusion reporting for marginalized groups of people
  • Karamoja Dialogues
  • Training and Dialogue wrap-up
  • Journalists’ training on digital inclusion

    All rights reserved 2023 | Terms and Conditions Apply 2023