Makerere University

By Grace Amme

By Samuel Kamugisha

BY SAMUEL KAMUGISHA

All is set for this year’s Annual Media Convention (AMC) scheduled for Thursday 31st and Friday 1st  November at Fairway Hotel in Kampala. 
The two-day event will bring together journalists and media practitioners, public communication experts, policy makers and government officials, academicians, civil society and development partners, as well as Journalism and Communication students  from Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Namibia, Zambia and Germany. 

The Department of Journalism and Communication (DJC) has won NORHED funding for a project titled: Strengthening Media in Post-Conflict societies through Education and Research: Bridging Gaps, Building Futures in Uganda, Norway, South Sudan and Nepal. It is a Five year project to be implemented in partnership with Norway, Nepal and South Sudan.  The selection of the DJC proposal was as a result of a competitive process of which 173 applications were received by NORHED for funding and out of these ony 46 have been recommended for support.