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In May 2025, CAMECO will launch the “Commbox” media & development literature database and repository. Media practitioners and communication researchers will enjoy user-friendly access to training materials, project experiences, country reports and impact research. The database draws on the library that CAMECO has compiled from all over the world since it was founded in 1969...

To strengthen our international team CAMECO seeks to recruit a Media expert for decolonization and dealing with a violent past - in collaboration with AGIAMONDO. For more information about how to apply please click here.

To strengthen our international team CAMECO seeks to recruit a Desk Officer for Francophone Africa and Haiti. Find more information about how to apply here.

To strengthen our international team CAMECO seeks to recruit a Desk Officer for Central and Eastern Europe / (Central) Asia. Find more information about how to apply here.

The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (Catholic Sisters Initiative) has partnered for the second time with the Dicastery for Communication of the Holy See and CAMECO to launch a special communication scholarship programme, endowed with $100,000 this year. Apply here!

Planning a project, running a successful fundraising campaign, implementing the project, and finally evaluating it before presenting a new proposal: this is how social development projects typically work from the perspective of implementing partners and funders. Most projects are financed on the basis of...

The Ugandan East Africa Radio Service – EARS together with Minibus Media kicked-off in October 2023 a project aiming at enhancing musical culture through the edutainment approach. “Time Travel into Fat beats” celebrated 50 years of the creation of this musical genre. The project successfully concluded last December 2024...

‘Know Your Audience, Improve Your Radio Ratings’ is the name of this two-year capacity building project that combined online and offline training with eleven community radios from Kenya and Uganda in a participatory manner. The principle was to merge elements...

40 local reporters from twelve Church and community radio stations were enabled to produce relevant journalistic content in a regional network and to improve their environmental journalism skills. From May 2023 to April 2024, three experienced trainers accompanied...

The Catholic Media Council (CAMECO), in cooperation with TULIP and supported by BEGECA, will conduct the Digital Media Education and Policy Development Training from Monday, November 25th to Friday, 29th, 2024. You can register now...

From 23rd September to 3rd October 2024, CAMECO (Catholic Media Council – cameco.org) will coordinate a Design Thinking workshop with a Catholic Radio and TV partner in Madagascar. The purpose of this session is to help this TV developing a creative format for its new audio-visual transmission on children rights. To hold this design thinking session, CAMECO will send one of his officers to Madagascar, from Germany. To ensure the quality of the intervention, CAMECO and its local partner are seeking a qualified and creative Audio-visual and social media communications expert...

Emy Osorio Matorel, our Digital Strategy and Analysis Advisor, participated in the Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute (OMPSI), aiming to explore the impacts of technology, media, and policy through a global and multidisciplinary lens. The 2023 edition focused on the question, "Technology and Policy in Turbulent Times: Whose Rights and Responsibilities?" The topics discussed during the two weeks included AI and...

CAMECO joined the discussion of communicators acting for sustainable development, exploring the role of journalists in building better informed communities at the UCAP conference held last November 2023 in Kampala...

CAMECO contributes insights into current academic research on media in the transformation of conflicts at the roundtable on the Central African Republic, held in October 2023, hosted by the Archdiocese of Cologne...

In the next two years the Dicastery for Communication of the Holy See, the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (Catholic Sisters Initiative) and CAMECO are going to join forces with the Cardinal Foley Scholarship Fund to support the education of religious sisters in preparation of taking up important roles and responsibilities in the media ministries of their congregations...

In an era where our professional and personal lives are intricately woven into the digital fabric, understanding and safeguarding our online presence is more crucial than ever. Following a number of advice requests from partners in the Global South, Cameco recognised the need to delve deeper into personal online safety beyond the conventional cybersecurity discourse...

This publication is a practical handbook edited by the Kenya Community Media Network (KCOMNET) on fact-checking, digital security, and data journalism. It is a comprehensive guide designed to equip journalists, citizen reporters, journalism students, and overall interested readers with the necessary knowledge and skills for responsible and ethical information practices and develop critical thinking, caution and accuracy to navigate today’s landscape of information and media...

“Participating in the journalism club at my school felt like a dream come true and absolutely mind-blowing. I would love to continue engaging in activities like this as they play a crucial role in shaping my future career,” exclaimed Rahim Agness, a 15-year-old student at St. Dorcas Education Centre in Satellite Kaibiria, Darogetti Constituency in Nairobi County. Rahim Agness was among the students who joined the journalism clubs in fourteen schools across Kenya...

In May 2023 the project “Cumare – Voices of the Amazon peoples”, a common initiative of the Colombian Non-Governmental Organisation “Comunicarte”, the Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network (Red Eclesial Panamazónica, REPAM) and CAMECO, started. “Cumare” (Astrocaryum chambira) is the local name of...

30 community radios are part of a project to support the most vulnerable groups of listeners in their fight against poverty. Involved are 30 stations from four countries (Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Timor-Leste), from which the directors and two programme staff each are going to receive training...

On April 26, the WACC regional association in Europe hosted an online seminar to explore the implications of digital transformation for those seeking digital justice, as well as the potential role of Christian communicators in this context...

Emy Osorio Matorel, our Digital Strategy and Analysis Advisor, conducted a workshop on Digital Security at this year’s AGIAMONDO Summer Conference. The workshop focused on understanding risks and exploring ways to protect personal data and professional documents...

At the Catholic Media Convention on 3 November 2022 in Bonn, an international panel convened by CAMECO with experts from the Vatican, the Philippines addressed with the German participants what appears to be a global trend...

The BMZ has published a video highlighting the importance of media development cooperation. Entitled "Freedom of Expression, Dialogue, Participation: BMZ Promotes Free Media and Media Literacy Worldwide" it showcases the work of three partner organisations – Deutsche Welle Akademie (DWA), Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and CAMECO...

From 5 to 9 December 2022, Mambulu Ekutsu, CAMECO's Francophone Africa Desk Officer, travelled to Marrakech, Morocco to attend the World Summit on Social and Behavior Change Communication (SBCC). Attending this summit was an opportunity for CAMECO to expand its network and observe the latest trends in social and behaviour change communication...

CAMECO’s new Advisor for Digital Analysis and Strategy, Emy Osorio Matorel, was part of an expert group convened by the Deutsche Welle Academy Lab and the Colmena project in Berlin on 25th November to explore the potential for Open Innovation...

On 16 December, Hans Peter Gohla who steered the fortunes of CAMECO as Executive Director from 1991 to 1999 died at the age of 87 in Aachen. In August 1991, at a time of structural change, he became Executive Director of CAMECO, succeeding Fr Dr Marcel Vanhengel op...

Dissatisfaction regarding general working conditions, the lack of operational budgets, audiovisual working tools and competent staff, and the urgent need for training and capacity building for better organisation, project planning and access to funding: These are...

The Forum Media and Development (fome) held its 2022 symposium from September 13-14 in Hamburg, Germany, on the issue of “Dealing with the Past – Preparing for the Future: Media Assistance in Conflict Mitigation, Reconciliation and Peacebuilding”...

The issue of sustainability is a key factor in media development assistance, which must be substantiated in funding applications and must be considered in evaluations. In a sense, it is the ultimate goal of most of the assistance provided to partners in the Global South and of the support given to their capacity building...

Participants at the German Catholic Convention in Stuttgart and experts from the Global South explored examples of using digital tools for spiritual formation and media education at a joint missio – CAMECO Workshop.

The open data tool developer Code for Africa (CfA) and the Kenya Community Media Network (KCOMNET) have teamed up with CAMECO to help local communities track public governance decision making and spending in eight counties in Kenya...

The third issue of the Research Reviews for Media Development Practitioners authored by Michel Leroy aims to trace the social construct of sustainability in the context of media development and define what is to be sustained, at the level of intervention (the process of change) or its outcome (the impact on the medium itself).

“Does knowing you mean trusting you?” was the provocative question of a panel, co-organised by CAMECO, Weltfilme and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, challenging the common assumption that local media, especially community media, enjoy the trust of their audiences as a natural consequence of their (geographic) proximity.

A new project aims to empower local communities to develop pathways out of the worsening poverty caused by the Corona pandemic. The project was planned and will be implemented by CAMECO in cooperation with AMARC Asia Pacific...

The Peruvian community radio association CNC and CAMECO launched the manual "Digitalization of Local Radio”.

Peru has been struck particularly hard by the Covid-19 pandemic. Adolescents from all over the country shared their personal experience with moving stories.

"Know your Audience - Improve your Radio" combines, in a participatory manner, online and offline training elements in the form of easy-to-use and modifiable learning modules with tools and templates, physical on-site visits by mentors allocated to each station, peer-based learning, etc.

“Be data driven” is one of eight long-term strategic goals of SAT-7, a Christian satellite TV channel in northern Africa and the Middle East. A special method to achieve this goal was in the focus of an online workshop that CAMECO helped organize with support of Kindermissionswerk ‘Die Sternsinger’.

Michaela Pilters, former Head of the Catholic Editorial Office of German public service TV channel elected new President of CAMECO.

Encouraging pilot-phase of BMZ project "Our County - Our Responsibility! Community media mobilising for accountability in Kenya".

Radio Veritas Asia's digital transformation gets a boost in times of lockdown.