With Maisha Yetu as the model, and generous support from the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, the IWMF has launched a collaboration with African media organizations that promises to energize reporting on the critical role women play in agriculture and rural development. The goals of this four-year project include raising the quantity and quality of reporting on farming and rural development, focusing more of the reporting on the importance of women to the economics of rural areas, and creating more gender equality in newsrooms. In developing the Women and Agriculture initiative project, the IWMF will take advantage of the strategies it employed so successfully in the 2003-2007 Maisha Yetu project. That four-year pilot, underwritten by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, upgraded the reporting on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in three African countries. For more information on these and other IWMF programs, click on the links below: