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HEMNet
draws its strength from its ability to network
member journalists with various organisations
and institutions, with which joint programs
are undertaken from time to time.
Below is a list
of partners with whom HEMNet enjoy very
productive partnerships;
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IUCN (The
World Conservation Union) - Founded in
1948, IUCN brings together over 900 members
including states, government agencies and a
diverse range of non-governmental
organisations seeks to encourage, influence
and assist societies across the world
conserve the integrity and diversity of nature
and ensure that any use of natural
resources is equitable and ecologically
sustainable.
The organisation
is currently facilitating the establishment of
a network of journalists who report on issues
affecting the Lake Victoria as a strategy
towards the water body's conservation. HEMNet
leads Kenya's representation in the regional
network, which also includes interested
scientists and researchers.
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ActionAid, renowned for its work with
poor communities worldwide, is one of HEMNet's
oldest partners. ActionAid's programs in West
Kenya cover a broad range of poverty-related
issues.
In a relationship
spanning since the establishment of HEMNet,
the two organisations have been able to
collaborate in various development areas
including interventions against insecurity,
public resource management, poverty
eradication among others.
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The LVEMP (Lake Victoria
Environmental Management Programme) is a
World Bank supported initiative seeking the
sustainable management of the lake's
resources. It is implemented through the
government environmental departments in Kenya,
Uganda and Tanzania - the lake's riparian
states.
HEMNet
took a strategic decision to maintain links
with the programme as a means to informing its
own activities and the wider public on the
implications of activities by LVEMP, which
remains the largest initiative seeking to
manage the lake resources.
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AWCIN (Africa Women and Child
Information Network) is renowned across
the continent as one of leading feature
services on development journalism, especially
on issues affecting women and children.
AWCIN continues
to collaborate with HEMNet on
issues affecting media development and
professional journalism activities in
Kenya.
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Futures Group Europe is an international
projects management group, currently running
one of Kenya's biggest intervention against
the HIV/Aids scourge.
The group is a
key partner in health related activities, a
collaboration that has seen a marked
improvement in the media attention to the
pandemic as a developmental problem.
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Ace Communications is a leading
communications outfit active in media-related
development interventions in Africa. This is
an ideal shared with HEMNet making the
two organisations partner in journalists
training in Nyanza Province, Kenya.
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MoH (Ministry of Health) a
department of the Kenya Government, remains
the leader in policy and interventions in the
sector. HEMNet has been able to
cultivate an active network with the
Ministry's technical wing in its
health-oriented activities.
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NGO Network for Western Kenya is the
umbrella body of all developmental
not-for-profit organisations working in West
Kenya. It creates a platform for such
organisations - generally known as the civil
society - to collaborate and partner with one
another, and with organisations active in
other sectors. >>
West Kenya Press Club, a nascent club for
media professionals working in West Kenya. HEMNet
is currently active in the process to
strengthen and establish the club as the
custodian of professional journalism in its
part of the country.
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