Courses completed

June 2024: Resource & Support Hub ( RHS) E-Learning: Safeguarding Matters

This is a series of 5 online training modules aimed at non-safeguarding specialists in civil society organisations (CSOs) who want a flexible approach to learning, to learn key facts about safeguarding, gain knowledge, do activities and achieve an RSH certificate. 

February 2016“Being A Leader” (BAL) and the effective exercise of leadership-

The course aimed at creating leaders and the effective exercise of Leadership as a Natural Self Expression.

Media appearance

Kujenga Amani, 8^th March 2017. Ignored Heroine? Maimuna Siraj, Social Media Activist, Strives for Peace and Women’s Empowerment in Mombasa, Kenya.

https://kujenga-amani.ssrc.org/author/joyce-omwoha/

Kujenga Amani, 12^th April 2019. Empowering Kenyan Voices in Peacebuilding Discourse Through Talk Radio. Article by Joyce Omwoha

https://kujenga-amani.ssrc.org/2019/04/12/empowering-kenyan-voices-in-peacebuilding-discourse-through-talk-radio/ 

The standard Newspaper, 9^th June 2023. Why the media should highlight intricacies of sexuality education. Opinion Editorial by Joyce Omwoha 

https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/entertainment/blogs/article/2001474811/why-the-media-should-highlight-intricacies-of-sexuality-education

Citizen TV News, 7^th March 2024. Washikadau wa afya kaunti ya Migori waitaka serikali kutoa mafunzo ya jinsia shuleni (Health stakeholders in Migori county want the government to provide gender training in schools)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98FY5W6bric

KTN TV News. 8^th March 2024. Unyanyasaji wa kijinsia Migori (Female Circumcision in Migori)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EephsB9DOU

Kala TV, Kenya. 9^th March 2024- Tero Nyiri Nyangu (Female Circumcision)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWGzFVfAWWM

The Standard Newspaper, 2^nd April 2024. Culture, religion are key factors hindering media coverage of reproductive health- experts. Article by Sharon Wanga 

https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/health/health-science/article/2001492546/culture-religion-are-key-factors-hindering-media-coverage-of-reproductive-health-experts

1.      1. Research grant from the University of Ghent (UGhent), Belgium.  The Power of Evidence-Based SRHR Policies in Times of Fake News. (SRHR- Sexual and Reproductive Health Research). June 2023- June 2024. 

2. Research fellowship at Ghent University, Project Titled The Intricacy of Adolescent Contraception Policy As Depicted And Portrayed In The Kenyan Media (May – July 2022)

3. Research Supervisor. Implementation Research Project in Guinea, Somalia and Kenya by WHO: A Health Systems Approach to Prevention of Female Genital Mutilation Using Person-Centered Communication (Elgeyo Marakwet County) 5^th July -23^rd July 2021)

4. Research Supervisor. Research titled A Health Systems Approach to Prevention of Female Genital Mutilation Using Person-Centred Communication: Implementation Research Project in Guinea, Somalia and Kenya by WHO (24 August – 4 September 2020).  Project funded by  World Health Organization, Department of Reproductive Health and Research (RHR), UNDP/UNFPA/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction

5.  Researcher. Project titled Emerging Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic on Gender-Based Violence in Africa for Sonke Gender Justice; a South African-based non-profit organisation working throughout Africa with the aim of resisting patriarchy, advocating for gender justice and achieving gender transformation. (July 2020)

6. Researcher. Project titled Emerging Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic on Gender-Based Violence in Africafor Sonke Gender Justice; a South African-based non-profit organisation working throughout Africa with the aim of resisting patriarchy, advocating for gender justice and achieving gender transformation. (July 2020)

7. Research co-trainer and interviewer.  Research titled Journalists and hate speech: The context of local radio stations in Kenya funded by Deutsche Welle Academy (12th to 16th January 2020)

8. Tracking Journalists in Kenya’s Fluid Media Environment For  Kenya Editors’ Guild (July-August 2019)

9. Fellow at the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) Democratic Governance Institute 2019. Project titled: “Open The Servers”: The Implications of Electoral Technology to Kenya’s Democratization Process (August-September 2019)

10. Research Grant: African Peacebuilding Network (APN) Research Grant fellow (May – December 2016). Project titled: From Street Sentiments to Online Sentiments: Negotiating Peace through Social Media Activism in Kenya

11. Research coordinator: Radio Listenership survey funded by Deutsche Welle Academy (August-September 2014)

Examined 10 thesis from: Aga Khan University (8), Sol Plaatje University, South Africa (1), Egerton University, Kenya (1).  Details available on request.