(SNJ) on the need for a self-regulatory instrument approved by media workers. Over two hundred journalists attended these meetings. entries increased from 17 in the previous year to 40, a one hundred percent jump. MISA Botswana hosted its 13th media awards ceremony and fundraising dinner on 5 September 2008. The dinner was attended by over 500 people. The Code was also used as a platform for monitoring the media coverage of the elections. A report was produced and submitted to the Editors for approval after which was formally launched on 4 March 2009. For the first time in Mozambique a report using scientific tools was designed and unanimously approved by the Editors in a National event. MISA Zambia held the annual MISA Zambia media awards on 13 February, 2009 at Mulungushi International Conference Centre which was graced by the Minister of Information and Broadcasting Services Lieutenant General Ronnie Shikapwasha and several MISA Zambia cooperating partners and media associations and representatives of media institutions. MISA- Malawi, Namibia and MISAMozambique also held media awards in the course of 2008. Media Awards MISA held its media awards at its AGM in August 2008. The Press Freedom award was awarded to Professor Fackson Banda, a leading media academic and freedom of expression activist from Zambia. MISA-Tanzania fundraised for awards amounting to US$6 500 on anticorruption and good governance to fifteen journalists. Journalists were recognised for their excellence in informing people about corruption and governance issues in the country. The prizes were handed to the winners during the commemoration of the Publicity for the John Manyarara Investigative journalism award was done through the printing and distribution of posters, each national chapter launched the awards with a press conference and 58 on media relations and a community dialogue in Kasane on World AIDS day in December 2009. Right to Know Day. One of the interesting things was that most award winners were those trained on investigative stories under MISA-Tanzania civic alliance against corruption grouping Millennium Challenge Account project. There was publicity of the awards through press conference and posters. MISA-Tanzania held a press conference to introduce regional John Manyarara Media Award to Tanzanian journalists, and called them to participate in the competition. At a national chapter level, MISA Namibia hosted a series of breakfast meetings during the 16 Days of Activism in November 2008 as well as being appointed to sit on the Ombudsman Communities on Human Rights. MISA Namibia also facilitated discussion both on radio and television with various stakeholders both from civil society as well as in the media in looking at issues around gender based violence as well as human right issues. Following support from Global AIDS Alliance, MISA Namibia commissioned a series of papers on the HIV and AIDS and its relation to reproductive health. HIV-AIDS and Gender activities MISA Botswana continued to play an important role in the fight against HIV and AIDS. The Chapter continued with its partnership with ZAMCOM in Zambia and American international health Alliance (AIHA) in effort to guide the reportage on the scourge. MISA Botswana held a number of workshops in which refreshed the skills of media practitioners on ways to report about HIV and AIDS. The chapter also moved a step further by involving other NGOs by holding two workshops In partnership with GEMSA MISAMozambique organized on 18-19 December 2008 a workshop on media and Gender in Nampula province. About 25 participants from the northern provinces of Mozambique took part. This was the last in series of Workshops organized with GEMSA. MISA-Mozambique had previously covered the South and Centre 59