Resource Type: Video

Namhla Mniki-Mangaliso discusses how African Monitor were able to mobilise citizens across Africa to have their voice heard in the global Post-2015 Development Agenda. 

Bob Muchabaiwa (Save the Children) shares insights on how financing for development was included in the multilateral processes surrounding the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). 

Civil society actors from across Africa met in Kenya to review the advocacy campaigns that have influenced the Post 2015 Development Agenda.  

With the Commonwealth theme for International Women’s Day 2015, “equality for women is progress for all“, Foundation programme manager, Diana Atungire-Ocaya reflects on what role civil society can have in improving women’s rights and gender equality across the world. 

On UNESCO World Radio Day 2015, Lesedi Mogoatlhe talks about how a youth-led radio project is offering an innovative alternative to traditional HIV messaging. 

With a grant from the Commonwealth Foundation, Children’s Radio Foundation are training mentors and young people in Cape Town to use radio as a tool to get young people talking about HIV/AIDS in their community. 

Project representatives are interviewed about the Commonwealth Foundation grants programme.

With a Commonwealth Foundation grant, Faces of Life is a project that uses media resources to support and empower the women of Rwanda whose lives have encountered barriers and adversities following the country’s 1994 genocide.

With a Commonwealth Foundation grant, the Institute for Education in Democracy (IED) is working towards the Kenyan High Court’s recommendation that positive steps should be taken to increase the representation of women in politics by 2015.

With a Commonwealth Foundation grant, the International Community of Women Living with HIV Eastern Africa (ICWEA) is empowering the country’s women, giving them the skills and confidence to support create their own change.

With a Commonwealth Foundation grant, the Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) is working with local partners in South Africa to develop the trust and frameworks needed for effective dialogue between South African farm owners and their workers.