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Building professional capacity of newcomer journalists in five districts of Nepal

Year when project approved: 
2014
Approved budget: 
US$17 000.00

Nepal’s media sector is large and growing rapidly. However, many people are entering the sector without even basic journalism training. This is because there are few journalism training institutes in Nepal. To address this shortcoming and thereby improve the quality of the media sector in Nepal, this project will train new journalists from five districts of Nepal. 

Documents
Full project description: 
Nepal_project_proposal2.pdf
Project details
IPDC Bureau meeting nº: 
58

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Budget
Budget code: 
17000

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Beneficiary
Beneficiary name: 
17 FM radios and 22 newspaper across 5 districts of Nepal (Khotang, Mahottari, Gorkha, Dailekh And Doti)
Beneficiary description: 

Media Advocacy Group (MAG) is a non-governmental organization registered in District Administration Office, Kathmandu in 2008 according to the Institution Registration Act 1977 of Nepal. The organization is also affiliated to Social Welfare Council according to SWC Act 1993. It is established by consortium having expertise in the field of media, advocacy and management. MAG has been particularly established to help and support endeavors to maintain full democracy and freedom of rights of all the people. MAG has executive committee with seven members led by woman having expertise in media, mass communication, gender and development and right to information. Along many other programs at present MAG is implementing a project "Use of RTI for citizens' awareness for effective Public Service Delivery in selected VDCs of Kailali and Mahottari districts". Radio Jingle, public service announcement and right to information tool kit has been produced by MAG under this project. The project is supported by Centre for International cooperation (CECI) and Program for Accountability in Nepal (PRAN). It has also organized a media campaign on ‘violence against women in politics’ through both print and electronic media in 2009. MAG has strong network of journalists in all the strategic locations of the country.

Beneficiary address: 
Kupondole, Lalitpur

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Beneficiary phone: 
01-5011793

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Location and contacts
UNESCO

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Project contacts: 

Babita Basnet, MAG President: basnetbabita7@hotmail.com

Project place: 
5 districts of Nepal (Khotang, Mahottari, Gorkha, Dailekh And Doti)

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Follow-up and achievments
Summary of the project implementation: 

A total of 75 journalists were trained in line with the expected outcomes. The training sessions in five places were attended by the marginalized groups, including women and dalits. A resource book in the Nepali langauge was published and distributed among the participants during the sessions.