Our Services
What FIMO Does?
Influenced by the personal experience of young female journalists, in a male dominated sector where women are viewed a mare accessory in the industry and are only given very limited and specific roles it was necessary to establish a platform and a space that gives the priority to women in media.
- Established a center for female journalists’ collaboration
- Developing women in media skills and media education
- Strengthening professional journalism capacity of female journalists
- Empowering women in media on leadership
- Creating employment opportunities for female journalists
- Advocating for multisectoral female collaboration.
Organizational Values
- Gender sensitivity
- Honesty
- Respect for individual
- Integrity
- Participation in communal activities
- Transparency in all transactions
- Accountability to all the actions/deeds performed by an individual
- Creativity
- Cost efficiency
Objectives
The overall objective of (FIMO) is enhanced ability in the target beneficiaries to tackle the professional, social, cultural, and financial problems in the Somaliland media sector.
- To protect, defend and strengthen the rights of women in media.
- To increase the participation of women in media in Somaliland by strengthening their capacity and enhancing their skills.
- To protect and foster freedom of information, freedom of the media, and independent female journalism.
- To support professionalism and social responsibility towards the development of greater democracy and freedom in Somaliland.
- To establish and develop cordial relationships with journalists and the Somaliland journalist associations, media associations of other countries, civil society organizations, and public and private institutions.
- To advocate for the improvement of the working conditions and environments for women in media in the country.
- To help women in media create and follow short-term and long-term career plans.
- To encourage women in media to become leaders and media houses owners and CEOs.
FIMO is firm believer in a very strong and efficient service delivery in the fields of Media, politics, business, education, and socioeconomics. For this purpose, FIMO management has always delivered services in target groups in a transparent manner taking care of quantity and quality. It is only because of this very reason that the FIMO interventions have always helped in meeting the needs of female journalists and achieving the desired objectives.
FIMO has always promoted the networking with other NGOs, CSOs, media groups and concerned stakeholders for achieving the goal of sustainable development. Networking with other organizations has always proved very productive by playing as medium between the service providers and those at the receiving end. Networking basically provides opportunity for looking at the issues from different angles as the perspective of issue changes, which then helps in comprehending the issue.
FIMO basically works mainly for women in media but all women, and girls at large. Its target groups include female journalists, women in politics, female net citizens and women in the creative sector.