Winner of ONE Africa Award 2008 is
Development Communications Network of Nigeria

The ONE Campaign is delighted to announce that Development Communications Network is the winner of the 2008 ONE Africa Award. Devcoms Network was awarded the prize of $100,000 for their work with the media in Nigeria, training and sensitizing journalists and editors to public health care issues, especially for women and children.

Reducing child and maternal mortality are the fourth and fifth Millennium Development Goals, but are the ones where least progress has been made, especially in Africa. Devcoms’ work sensitising and immersing reporters in public health issues has seen a 15% rise in media coverage of maternal and child health in Nigeria. Devcoms also provides media support to advocacy efforts for free maternal and child health care across the country.

This is the first annual ONE Africa Award, which has been created to honour outstanding contributions by Africans towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals. The award was announced at the CSO Parallel Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Accra, Ghana.
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About Development Communications Network

Development Communications (DEVCOMS) Network is a media-development, capacity-building non-governmental organization that engages media in the development process with a strong emphasis on science and public health journalism. The organization is the product of a series of development projects on media (both print and broadcast – including filming and radio production), health promotion, advocacy and capacity building in the Nigerian mass media and the civil society sector from 1995 to date.
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ONE would also like to recognize the outstanding work of the following organizations, who were finalists for this year’s ONE Award. Read more