ETHIOPIA: IMPROVING LEADERSHIP & PHOTOJOURNALISM SKILLS OF WOMEN JOURNALISTS
The proposed project with a theme of “Developing leadership skill and Enhancing photojournalism skills” aims to create independent and self-confident senior women journalists as well as to produce a well skilled body of photojournalists who have the required competencies to produce quality media outputs with the required media quality standards in order to inspire development and learning through an increasingly gender sensitive media environment. This project’s primary objective is to build the capacity of 20 senior women journalists in leadership knowledge and skills as well as enhance the competencies of 15 women photojournalists in photojournalism skills who are currently working at private organizations and government mass media agencies of Addis Ababa, Tigrai, Oromia, Amhara, Diredawa, Harari and SNNP regions. The leadership skill training attendants will acquire the necessary leadership skills to ensure sustainable female leadership of media agencies while the photojournalism skills training attendants will be able to gain knowledge of the basics of digital photojournalism including editing and post processing through adobe Photoshop editing software.