In its endeavour to increase the profile of children's voices in public spaces, and thus promote children's rights to participate, Plan Rwanda, a Community Development Organization, is currently implementing a Child Media Project that will draw on lessons learnt from previous Media projects to create greater impact in the area of Child media/participation. This project seeks to build the capacity of journalists and media outlets and of children and youths to further and more effecively engage in child media programming.
More specifically, Plan Rwanda seeks to promote the long-term voice of children and youth in the Rwandan media, and thus help promote children and youth as active participants in development discussions, by providing them with the skills they need to develop their own media programming and by training professional journalists to be cognizant of children’s and youth’s issues and children’s participatory techniques as they develop their own content..
As Umberto Eco, a professor of Language and Semiotics, once said " If you want to use television to teach somebody something, you first have to teach somebody how to use television."
