Centre Stage Media Arts Foundation (CSMA) is a Zimbabwean non-profit organisation. CSMAs uses the human rights centred approach to implement projects on HIV / AIDs, legal education and human rights advocacy, sustainable development and youth development. In implementing development projects, CSMA, formal and informal participatory methods, education for sustainable development and broad advocacy strategies, including media and policy advocacy.
To date CSMA has implemented projects on digital rights, access to justice, HIV prevention through biomedical interventions advocacy, freedom of information and expression, Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), urban youth entrepreneurship and broader peacebuilding and peacemaking initiatives.
CSMA exists as a creative development hub, that responds to multifaceted development challenges facing marginalised and subordinate groups in Zimbabwe. It does this by harnessing the energy and talents of young people and professionals across the different development spectrum. CSMA's development agenda seeks to address the following themes; HIV and Aids, human rights, poverty eradication, conflict resolution, sustainable development, education, youth development and entrepreneurship skills development in Zimbabwe's urban and rural communities.
CSMA's development work in human rights, HIV/Aids, advocacy for sexual minorities, access to justice and youth development in Zimbabwe is highlighted through this short video
Interms of youth development work, CSMA has partnered with organisations such as the Salzburg Global Seminar, where the organisation has presented its work on the importance of availing new and alternative spaces for youth engagement amongst themselves and policymakers. Furthermore, it is hoped that such spaces will serve as human rights empowerment points for subordinate youth, namely adolescent girls, young women and sexual minorities.