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1. What do ASMITA means ?
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What is its' major aim ?
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What is its' goal ?
4.
What are its' major activities ?
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What are the objectives ?
6.
What is the organizational potentiality ?
What do ASMITA means ?
ASMITA literally means
Identity of women. It was established in 1988 as a non-profitable,
non-political and non-governmental organization by a nucleus of young
enthusiastic women journalists. Its general objectives is to fulfill
the existing gap in participation, representation and access to media of
women. It is committed to find new ways and direction s for women's
progress.
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Major
aim
Its major aim is to active
participation of more women in the media. ASMITA is the one and only
feminist alternative media organization in the country, and its functions
as a pressure group for the advancement of women through media activism.
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Goal
The prime target of ASMITA is
to establish a well-equipped and self-reliant feminist alternative media
organization for continuous advocacy of women's human right, gender
equality and advance of women.
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Major
activities
In order to achieve its
pre-set objectives, ASMITA has been involved in the following activities :
- Publishing Asmita Feminist
Magazine;
- Publishing Literacy Supports materials;
- Maintaining inforamtion & Documentation section
- Conducting research on contemporary women's issues
- Conducting trainig on gender perspective in journalism
- Media analysing
- Networking
- Consultancy
<see
detail in
About Us>
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Objectives
ASMITA has set
forth the following objectives:
- To publish a
specalised magazine, newspaper, books, booklets, anthologies, year books
etc on women issues for educated women and men.
- To establish
a feature service for producing features, investigative reporting, depth
reporting on contemporary women's issues.
- To support
the country's literacy campaign for women by publishing educative
materials for rural women.
- To produce
an audio-visual programs on women's and gender issues.
- To conduct
various research on contemporary women's issues.
- To conduct a
media watch project by analyzing and monitoring the presentation of women
in the media.
- To establish
an information and documentation service of published materials on women's
studies.
- To maintain
network with related national and international media organizations and
exhange information.
- To provide
training on gender perspective in journalism in order to produce a skilled
gender-conscious work force in the field of media.
- To provide
consultancies in the sector of feminist alternative media.
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Organizational
potentiality
ASMITA is
managed by a Board (of member) consisting of five members. All of them are
professionals having expertise in various fields. The board provides
directorship and policy guidelines to the institution and also contributes
professionally in areas of their interest and expertise.
ASMITA staff
includes professionals experienced in journalism, print media,
publication, research, administration and management. Moreover, ASMITA
employs proffessionals from outside the organization on short and medium
term basis, when needed.
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