Sri Lankan Development Journalist Forum (SDJF) is a well established national level organization, with more than 7 years of extensive experience in promoting the role of media in democratization and transformation. We work closely with local media organizations, International media development agencies, civil society organizations, youth and women development movements and organizations that promote democracy and pluralism towards better transformation. Media for Transformation, Community Media for Inclusive Development and Training and Capacity Building are the major programme areas of Sri Lanka Development Journalist Forum. The Democracy, Equality, Social Justice and Inclusiveness are the cross-cutting themes of SDJF.
Vision
A country where there is no voice poverty in the civil society due to accountable use of media that facilitates positive social change and democratic values.
Mission
Be a professional facilitator of transformation with the use of media as a tool, strengthen community media, advocate democratic values and undertake training and capacity building.
We believe that diversity is the universal truth and it feeds strength to life. Diversity enriches our programs, which in return, will enrich the people’s lives. Without believing and practicing in diversity, media cannot be a part of people and their development. Diversity in media and media in diversity give us a better world.
We make our media programs to be the forum for dialogue around any social conflict, and believe that our program should facilitate strong debates towards a common good. We strive to input peace and harvest connectivity. We are capable of transforming any social conflict with the media in hand.
We trust that media cannot be a real tool to foster the positive changes in the Sri Lankan society until it adopts a gender sensitive approach and constantly engages with issues that affect women. We believe in equality, justice and Gender Sensitive Active-Non Violence (GSANV) too.
Learning makes us unique, while making our programs trustworthy. Furthermore, learning makes us believe in the future, and it will show us the changing dynamics of society as well as its needs for development.
