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their wellbeing. hello i'm christine want to welcome to news africa it's good to have you along here watching me now also. 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 $1000000.00 refugees between south sudan and uganda and it's mostly people from south sudan who fled to uganda because of fighting often they a rival triggers conflicts inside the host country now displaced people and members of the host 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. her.

to. the. to. the. now data of you has just organized a conference looking into the role that media can play it brought together refugees need to 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 for 10 she called nate's 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. website for example you've got canned music and on stop any marriage in refugee settlements you also have suicide cases many among south sudanese asylum seekers in uganda what you say that refugees settlements all communities with issues unique to them that no call needed 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 challenge is are just not tied united by mainstream media. for

various reasons one of them being the issue of access to the camps with a settlement the settlements is not as easy don't just walk into a fugitive amp to gather some of the information but. that then becomes a limitation in terms of what some media houses that are cleats that able to broadcast yes all right jessica let me bring you here you are here so you're using this platform see the end so ridge's tensions between the more than a 1000000 south sudanese refugees in uganda and their host communities how is that working. thank you so much. this is really working because cross-pollinate truck member registrations and cross-pollinate of. veritas working towards you know creating a platform for for for us and house communities we we do offer them an opportunity

to have a dialogue between there for years and the host communities and they almost talk and share their challenge used and 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 to the content is widely you know shared with all our audience and that's how we 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 content. possible only talk is a network of member member registrations our contents normally comes 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 the counting 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 in order but in standard together with we don't need top editors we we always come up with the contents that we want and the contents that we're looking after is a kind of contents that you know creates 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 n.j. 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

a citizen gentleness and that is how we are able to get some contempt that is not easy to find especially for other media outlets because we have citizen journalists who say who some of whom live within the camp so the settlements and these ones that this citizen generally is that able to pick up on issues that are within the camps or the segments and they share with us. with on investigations and then their content goes through editorial and then that helps us to have content that can contribute through yet this from coexistence and also give some hope to stay with e.j. and i just want it i mean what i what are you all proudest achievements with cross fought in atlantic i think up 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 have also seen that sense tapes have been taken by local government oh you know to that to the fact that even some you know things have been ringback 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 and i different radio stations member. member member districts you know different other districts where if you just ask. well if ever to emulate what excellent best practices were. set in other districts that you know helps to scale down on. conflicts but established more you know comfortable and yeah better working is that good settlement better peaceful coexistence just mean that perhaps the end off with you can be the deed of

a academy has organized this conference and looking at dialogue in forced migration what will be what will you be taking home from this conference. what we will returning home from this conference is that. people have to make an informed decision. do you for use of the cams and should be i.d.p.'s in times through then they're free to do besides owned only distillation whether to come out of the com send or if i do preach and go home you know help in rebuilding the nation and the other thing we also took from here is that i do peace if you use and migration is on the agenda today that all of us has to work together to make 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 they project from jane and 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 says its vision is to have resilient informed and empowered communities especially women girls and youth with self-confidence to improve their wellbeing. young actors in jamestown as sub able for crime are a hazard for an upcoming stage performance the pats off a group called theatre for social change the group uses interactive performances us an innovative 2 to promote be able react change they're not just activists but friends who grew up in this community 28 year old joseph is says that steffi atta saved here from teenage pregnancy as social vises i could see my age group getting

paid needs dating food and people you think this guy's too old for me but that was the norm those that were down to the include a full load seeing. that because we came here we had to needs an address to fit it it's needed 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 act to entertain but also to address society our problems in the communities. we believe that's powerful true that's can actually engage young people and the whole community discuss issues that are fairly at 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 their own solutions to be a problem. to be just feel that i have phrased opera for me in this church in our crowd following gary has out the previous the. audiences are comprised mainly of school children and the stage performers is focused on the topic of ministration and. when the phrase experience 8 reaction from the audience member particularly the younger ones shows how much of the are from aids and enjoy a roof. lang the amish a shamefaced mustard so you just go to have her and then watch a movie. and i said feeling see should have time for the goal is to says you can't explain everything. what. their friends want to become

professionals. in the country with. and that's it for now from the news africa you can catch all our stories on our website and facebook page will leave you with another look at the. atlanta. i'm going to take you on a trip a little sex. from traced to my son right. in the center. 60 fun filled kilometers just have to come to the 2nd one movie it's a small a wine region but it's got

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