The Paris Declaration on Broadcast Media and Climate Change adopted by UNESCO in 2009, recognizes that broadcast media play a critical role in stimulating policy debate and in mobilizing knowledge to empower societies' decision-making on issues relating to climate change. In order to maximize this role, it is essential that journalists are provided with the means and knowledge to disseminate accurate information on such matters in a manner which is accessible at a local level. This project aims to address this need by equipping print journalists with the necessary scientific knowledge and skills to write effectively on issues relating to development within their communities. The training will be delivered as a series of two-day workshops in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Myanmar, Philippines and Sri Lanka (one workshop per country), catering to a total of 90 mid-career journalists. Within these training workshops, local experts will deliver presentations on the scientific, environmental and sociological aspects of climate change from a local perspective. Continued delivery of the content will be ensured by the production of a CD-ROM, to be distributed among local facilitators as a resource for future training activities. In attaining its goal, this project will produce 90 trained journalists, capable of producing absorbing reports on issues related to climate change and development within their communities. OBJECTIVE To conduct a series of two-day training workshops across six countries in Asia in order to provide 90 journalists with the necessary skills and knowledge to produce high-quality reports on climatic change issues.