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Women in Cameroon have been called upon to claim their rights and break stereotypes so as to contribute in the economy growth of Cameroon. This was amongst many recommendations made at the end of a panel discussion organised by the Denis and Loretia Foundation this November 30, 2021 in Yaounde under its project to promote Women's Economic Rights, WERC. With theme of focus, "Advancing Women's Liberty for a Sustainable Economic Growth" , three panelists identified barriers to women's economic liberty and prosperity in Cameroon and then proposed solutions to tackle these problems. Barriers Identified The obstacles to women's economic liberty highlighted include: limited access to education in some localities, limited access to health services, limited access to loans, constraints in justice systems and vulnerable jobs. Recommendations One of the Panelists, Dr Wilfred Pathe, a Lecturer on Human Rights, insisted that women grab their rights and break stereotypes. H...

Effective communication has over the years had an impact on the growth and development of humans and societies at large. In this effect, the Center for human rights and Democracy in Africa held an evaluation and monitoring workshop on 25th November 2021 to educate actors against Gender Based violence on how they can effectively communicate the Start, Awareness Support Action SASA methodology in their communities to impact change. The capacity building workshop which took place at the CBC Hall Mile 3 Nkwen Bamenda, had Ndum Chalotte, a girls' right activist and a representative of CESCOMPSUP's Coordinator Madam Rosaline Obah as one of the facilitators. While highlighting the different communication strategies that can be used to effectively pass out the SASA message amongst which are advocacy, behavioral change, youth generational change, she noted that the SASA methodology has been a success and these communication strategies will be a plus to ending violence against women in...

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Some Media Professionals drawn from the North-West, South-West and West Regions, have been schooled on Routine Vaccination. This forum of exchange falls within the framework of Health System Strengthening. Organized by the Expanded Program on Immunization E.P.I, the workshop trained media professionals on key areas of immunization and build their capacity to produce broadcasts, spots and micro-programs in favour of immunization and to also empower them with the necessary resources to research information on immunization.   This workshop is organized within the backdrop that there has been a drop in vaccination coverage where Yellow Fever YF, Measles and Rubella MR had dropped to 79% and 71% respectively in 2018. This is further corroborated by the MICS 2014 and EDS V 2018 surveys, which concluded that the proportion of children vaccinated with Penta 3 has fallen from 86% to 71.5%.      Conscious of the great role that Radio and Television play in the dissemination...

  As part of measures to spread peace through communication, the Civil Peace Service of Bread for the World organized a 5- day workshop on radio drama production on the theme "Radio Drama: A Veritable Tool for the Promotion of Peace" .The workshop which was held at the PCC Synod office in Buea brought together 17 CPS partner organizations from all over the country. Opening the training workshop, the representative of the Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Cameroon, the National Peace Coordinator, Rev. Nta William Nche disclosed that the workshop is coming at a time when all avenues have to be exploited to preach peace, and radio drama is one of them. During the 5-day training workshop, the participants were drilled on peace, peacebuilding, conflict, history of radio drama, elements of a good script amongst others by Julius Nzang and Achaleke Christian, who were the main facilitators.   Cross Section of Participants During Workshop   At the end of the training wor...

  One of the contestants of the Bamenda III Festival of Heritage Arts and Cultures (FEHACU) beauty pageant has offered brooms to youths who turnout for the cleaning of Nkwen Fon's Palace being the venue of the maiden edition of the festival. Tita Princess Wanki 19yrs Studying Business Management at the University of Bamenda stormed the palace in the morning of 22 November 2021 with bundles of brooms for those who came to clean the palace. While distributing the brooms, Princess said she was motivated by the need to keep the festival venue clean so that visitors will be comfortable while at the Nkwen Fon's Palace. According to Princess Tita, this can contribute to making her winner of the Miss FEHACU contest.   The other four contestants include Asah Nadia Sirri 20yrs and holder of the Advanced Level Certificate, Fuh Nadege Bih 17years studying Accounting and Finance, Ijang Julienne 25yrs involved in Handicraft and Arts and Blandine Ngewoh 19 from the Faculty of Arts...