Birgitte Jallov

EMPOWERHOUSE is the platform for Birgitte Jallov's work to EMPOWER women and men - and their communities - to unfold their individual and community potential, knowing their rights and have the means to claim them. We - EMPOWERHOUSE and Birgitte - do this through media and communication in different ways. EMPOWERHOUSE builds on Birgitte's lifetime of work in this area - as documented through her documentaries.

Among the early documentaries were the following filmed at the UN Women's Conference in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1985; in 1986 documentaries explored the issues of 'Women and Western Aid' in India and in 1990 documenting the power of women's organisations in rural, slum and factory life in the Philippines in 1990. 

When taking up the leadership of the UNESCO/UNDP Media Development Project in Mozambique 1998-2004, Birgitte and her team documented the different important components of their work with the strong national media fraternit in support of a democracy underpinning media.