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hello i'm christine want to welcome to news africa it's good to have you along you're watching me now so you know what a difference a broad cost can make and it's not just television radio can be a powerful tool for citizen journalists now there are about a 1000000 refugees between south sudan and uganda and it's mostly people from south sudan who fled to uganda because of fighting often their arrival triggers conflicts inside the host country now displaced people and members off the hook society often have no access to reliable information and that's a breeding ground for rumors and false reports today we want to tell you about an initiative seeking to provide these communities with relevant radio it's called cross border network.

the. to. now the new has just organized a conference looking into the role that media can play it brought together. media professionals and humanitarian experts to discuss access to information in forced migration situations. i'm now joined by jane would cross border networks project coordinator in uganda and josephine fortell and she coordinates

a project for south sudan and there at that conference welcome to you ladies jane i'll start with you just looking at some of the headlines on c.b.s. websites for example you've got canned music and don stop marriage and refugee settlements you also have suicide cases many among south sudanese asylum seekers in uganda which you say that refugees settlements all communities with issues unique to them that local media just doesn't cover. thank you very much absolutely refugee camps all settlements whichever way you call them have challenges that are unique and unique to specific settlement camps. and sometimes this challenges are just not tied united by mainstream media. for various reasons one of them being the issue of access to the camps or the

settlement the settlements is not as easy you don't just walk into a fugitive camp to gather some of the information but. that then becomes a limitation in terms of what some media houses or plates that able to broadcast yes right yes i mean let me bring you in here in here so you're using this platform c.b. and so bridges tensions between the more than a 1000000 south sudanese refugees in uganda and their host communities how is that working. because so much. this is really working because cross border neutral member registrations and cross-pollinate drug . veritas working towards you know creating a platform for for a few years and host communities we we do offer them an opportunity to have a dialogue between there for years and

a host i mean edition the last talk and share their challenge just. get solution that's normally what we do right. we also you know we've been tryna talk member registrations each member credit look at a time for for for discussion or for us issues and there and then the content is widely you know shared with all our audience and that's how we are we right now in doing it ok just a bit and perhaps tell us more about i know you're both going to weigh in here but starting with you josephine how does a cross border network kill rate its contents. possible in a talk is a network of member member registrations our contents normally come from the stations. but how we do it as cross about on a truck we always give capacity building through to our member stations journalists for them to come up with accounting that we need that should you know. the interest

of cross more than a truck so what we do is like we give capacity building we have a literal get lines we also you know have one you know reporting standard together with we don't need editors we we always come up with the content that we want and the condoms that we're looking after is a kind of contents that you know create space for peaceful coexistence peace conference and that gives you know the. refugees and the host communities a space of you know creating a. society right so that's how we normally do it yes right and jane there is an element of citizen journalism to this right as as as just in a sort of alluding to. yes there is an element of us citizen journalists and that is how we are able to get some content that is not easy to

find especially for other media outlets because we have citizen journalists who say who are some of whom leave within the camp so the segment on this one is that this citizen genet is that able to pick up on issues that are within the comps or the segments and they share with us. with on investigations and then the content goes through editorial and then that helps us to have content that can contribute to yep useful coexistence and also give some hope staying with e.j. and i just want it i mean what i what are you all proudest achievements with cross border and it i think i'm proudest achievement is that we have been able to create content to that has one way or the other contributed to peaceful coexistence among us there if it is and then the host communities. throughout our content we've

also seen that some steps have been taken by local government oh you know to that to the fact that even some you know things have been decided which have been helpful to to promote peace peace and peaceful coexistence we have examples of that as a result of content that we broadcast on our different radio stations member. member member districts you know different other districts where refugees. well in your late what excellent best practices were inserted in other districts that you know helps to scale down. conflicts but established more you know comfortable and yeah better working 77 meant better peaceful glycol satans just mean at the absolute end off with you i mean the deeds of the academy as organized as conference and looking at dialogue in forced migration what will be

what will you be taking home from this conference. what we will be taking home from this conference is that. people have to make an informed decision. dear if you use a becomes and should be i.d.p.'s in times through then they're free to do besides owned only this tradition whether to come out of the com send or if i do peace and go home you know help in rebuilding the nation and the other thing we also take from here is that. if you use an migration is on the agenda today that all of us has to work together to mak it you know a peaceful society for people so that they go home josephine and jay thank you so much. and it's not just radio like the

project from jane in josephine that's making a difference in ghana a group of young people are using theatre to engage local team ages the p.s.l. for social change project say's its vision is to have resilient informed and empowered communities especially women girls and here with self-confidence to improve their wellbeing. young actors in gym style as sub people far cry are a hazard for an upcoming stage performance the pats off a group called the acts are for social change the group uses interactive performances us an innovative 2 to promote be able react change your not just activists but friends who grew up in this community 28 year old just finished says that steph yetta saved here from teenage pregnancy as social vises i could see

my age group getting pregnant dating food before you think this guy is too old for me but that was the norm now is there a down to the in could have followed this seeing lying because we came here we had to needs an address to fit it it's needed it's different people in the community the group was formed in 2003 and i strained over a 100 young people so far taking many of them off the streets the uk to entertain but also to address society our problems in the communities. we believe that's. true that's can actually engage young people and the whole community discuss issues that are fairly our life and also putting these issues into a dramatic form helps me to actually realize how important issues and what he can do about it and find our own solutions to be a problem. to d.

i just feel and have phrased opera for me in this church in our crowd following gary has out the previous t.v. . audiences are comprised mainly of schoolchildren and the stage performance is focused on the topic of ministration and why. when the phrase experience 8 reaction from the audience member particularly the younger ones shows how much of the flames and enjoy the fall knows when the amish a shamefaced mustard so you pairing wasn't just the tip for when they watch a movie. and i said feeling see should have time for de gale is mistreats is as you can explain everything seems. to spin on their frames one to become professionals. in the country with messages.

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