This UNESCO programme focuses on building the capacities of media professionals through enhancing the quality of media training institutions and fostering community access to information in order to increase opportunities for non-formal education.

Media is an important element for enhancing participation in development processes and contributing to poverty eradication. Capacity-building of media professionals is critical for achieving these goals. Therefore, UNESCO aims at:

• increasing the competency of media training institutions;
  
• improving accountability, ethical and professional standards in journalism; and
  
• providing training on investigative journalism.

Within this programme, training is provided to the print and broadcast media, to media management, and to technicians and engineers. The high priority is given to the training of women media professionals.

At the country level, capacity-building of media professionals is supported through establishment and strengthening of media training institutions to offer high-quality training, particularly in Africa. This includes setting criteria of excellence, provision of training facilities, training of trainers, and development of training modules in disciplinary knowledge including popularising science journalism.

02-11-2010 (Windhoek) 

Idasa-GAP and UNESCO assess HIV and AIDS coverage in journalism education

26-10-2010 (Rabat) 

UNESCO's Rabat Office publishes guide to advance gender equality in radio content

15-10-2010 (Port-au-Prince) 

UNESCO supports natural disaster training for Haitian journalists

14-10-2010 (Baghdad) 

UNESCO presents Media Elections Project to Communications and Media Commission of Iraq

12-10-2010 (East London) 

UNESCO meets with South African journalism schools at Fort Hare

08-10-2010 (Dushanbe) 

Journalists of Tajikistan improved their ability of reporting on environmental issues

05-10-2010 (Rabat) 

IPDC-funded training on online radio started yesterday in Rabat

14-09-2010 (Baghdad) 

UNESCO hosts inaugural meeting of Iraqi Media Elections Advisory Board

14-09-2010 (Baghdad) 

UNESCO presents Media Elections Project to Independent High Electoral Commission of Iraq

08-09-2010 (Apia) 

Building disaster resilience of Pacific radio stations

06-09-2010 (Suva) 

UN supports MDG reporting in the Pacific

31-08-2010 (Cape Town) 

Educating journalists as architects of democracy

20-08-2010 (Kathmandu) 

Journalism education in Nepal set to benefit from UNESCO’s Model Curricula

18-08-2010 (Grahamstown) 

UNESCO hosted meeting on Media Training, Journalism Education and Gender Equality at WJEC-2

12-08-2010 (Pretoria) 

Science journalism initiative moves forward

29-07-2010 (Port-au-Prince) 

UNESCO supports training for women journalists in Haiti

23-07-2010 (Apia) 

UNESCO supports establishment of Pacific media freedom network

15-07-2010 (Kathmandu) 

UNESCO introduces its model curricula for journalism education in Nepal

13-07-2010 (Moscow) 

IPDC-funded Summer School on Multimedia Journalism

23-06-2010 (Grahamstown) 

UNESCO to participate in 2nd World Journalism Education Congress in Grahamstown next month

21-06-2010 (Brasilia) 

UNESCO supports training for community radios in Brazil

15-06-2010 (Paris) 

UNESCO supported training on conflict reporting for African journalists

08-06-2010 (Almaty) 

Young TV producers from Central Asia trained on HIV reporting

03-06-2010 (Kathmandu) 

Model curricula for journalism education now available in Nepali

11-05-2010 (Windhoek) 

Training in Namibia to build capacity of community newspapers

27-04-2010 (Johannesburg) 

CBC receives UNESCO Award for Science Reporting and Programming 2010

23-04-2010 (Quito) 

IPDC-funded workshops on strengthening journalism through ICT begin in Colombia

06-04-2010 (Rabat) 

Mauritania adopts UNESCO’s Model Curricula for Journalism Education

25-03-2010 (Windhoek) 

UNESCO supports Namibian participation in conference on gender in media education

25-03-2010 (Kathmandu) 

Enhancing personal security skills of women journalists in Terai

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