Media coverage plays a crucial role in public education and awareness-raising on disability rights and challenges that persons with disability are facing. Proper presentation of disability issues and problems of women and girls withdisabilities can change public perceptions and eliminate discrimination.
On the other hand, persons with disabilities are not ready to be featured in mass media because of lack of skills to report on their rights, challenges and achievements.
As a result of the project activities, mass media workers, journalists, and students in Shirak, Lori, and Tavush regions will:
- be skillful and knowledgeable on interviewing women and girls with disabilities,
- be aware of useful tips for disability rights-based coverage,
- know what terminology to use.
As a result of the project activities, women and girls with different types of disabilities from Shirak, Lori, and Tavush regions will:
- overcome gender and disability-based stereotypes,
- be ready to speak up and advocate for their rights,
- be ready to share their success stories,
- learn to be visible in their communities and in the media.
Within the framework of the project “I can break stereotypes in my community” ,
- acting and future journalists and cameramen from Shirak, Lori and Tavush regions will be trained on how to cover disability issues on media by developing their capacity in reporting about disability rights and challenges of persons with disabilities,
- the most successful participants will host 10 TV shows with the participation of women and girls with disabilities who will share their success stories,
- numerous informational materials (flyers, guidebooks, booklets, postes ect) will be developed and shared among the project target groups.
- 3-day empowering workshop will be organized for women and girls with different types of disabilities from Shirak, Lori and Tavush regions, during which they will learn how to communicate and work with media representatives
- a short film “I can break stereotypes” will be produced, presenting how the project helped women and girls with disabilities to overcome stereotypes.
The project is implemented in the framework of the “EU 4 Gender Equality: Together against gender stereotypes and gender-based violence” programme, funded by the European Union, implemented jointly by UN Women and UNFPA.