Northern Uganda Media Club (NUMEC) is an independent, non-partisan media development organization founded by journalists and media professionals in Gulu, Northern Uganda. It’s a membership-based media resource conceived to revitalise the media terrain in northern Uganda to help catalyse peace, recovery, reconciliation, and development, and promote media freedom and access to information in the region devastated by a two-decade armed conflict orchestrated by Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA).
NUMEC’s mission is to integrate the critical role of media and communications into the strategic objectives of actors and stakeholders within the context of development in the region. In achieving its mandate and being the only functional media development organisation that is based outside Uganda’s capital Kampala, NUMEC runs a media resource center that strife to create an enabling environment that promotes the growth and development of journalism.
With its strong brand, the media resource center offers a conference facility for press conferences to facilitate access to information to the under-represented communities in the region. We also provide tailor-made capacity building for practicing journalists, generate content on topical issues, and provide training to stakeholders, notably authorities, opinion leaders, local leaders, and civil society on issues of media convergence, pluralism, and press freedom.