1. Citizen Journalism Africa (CJA)
citizenjournalismafrica.org

2. General apercu
CJA is Hivos/SANGONeT civil journalism project aiming at building the capacity of civil society organisations (CSOs) to use online and offline citizen journalism as a means of publication, lobby, networking and knowledge sharing with their constituencies.
CJA’s Objectives To increase outreach in local media of balanced, objective and informative reporting on the situation of targeted marginalized groups
To an increased involvement and participation of these groups in democratic processes on the national level.
To improve capacity of selected African CSOs in the field of gender, children and youth, HIV/AIDS and rural communities to use both traditional and digital media strategically and with journalistic professionalism.

3. Participating Countries

4. Participating organisations per country
Zambia : 16 organisations
Uganda : 15 organisations
Tanzania : 14 organisations
South Africa : 14 organisations
Zimbabwe : 13 organisations
Mozambique : 16 organisations

5. Activities Trainings and workshops: Online Course:
Web 2.0 (Blogger, Technocracy, Webpage,…)
Social media (Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Picasa…)
Open sources
Online Course:
Digital storytelling (speaking through images)
Reporting and writing

7. Partners and users
The CJA interacts with 88 “chosen” partner organisations in six countries
The CJA has 175 active users registered on the portal
The CJA portal runs an average of 2,100 visitors and 1,600 unique visitors per month (Google analytics)

8. Challenges Diversity Language
Access to broadband High cost of internet
Brain-drain in NGOs

9. Find us
Citizen Journalism
Africa
CJAfrica