Media Focus On Africa organized a two day Gender training workshop was held on Thursday 27th and Friday 28th January 2022 at Eureka Hotel in Kampala. 23 participants attended in person. 3 commuted while the 20 resided at the hotel for three nights.

The sessions were mostly interactive; as participants discussed practical ways to apply the key gender and media viability lessons learned over the year in their media houses. Overall goal was to create gender policies and enforce them. Topics covered in the training include;
1. Importance of gender inclusion in the newsroom
2. Gender statistics in the media- with a bias on the sexual harassment statistics on newsrooms
3. Critical gender challenges in the media
4. Developing policy guidelines

The training structure consisted of dialogue, presentations , group work and and assignment that the participants took home. Tools like the Jam board were used which enabled online participants to contribute to the discussions