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.

23-03-2010 (Beijing) 

Promoting food safety and nutrition in China through media

18-03-2010 (Windhoek) 

Syllabus on reporting Africa: Findings of discussion forum

15-03-2010 (Windhoek) 

Role of community radio in disaster management on agenda of workshop in Namibia

10-03-2010 (New Delhi) 

Workshop on media ethics for Bhutanese journalists supported by UNESCO

04-03-2010 (Amman) 

Online culture of peace discussed at Arab New Media Summit

02-03-2010 (Paris) 

UNESCO publishes curriculum on conflict-sensitive reporting

01-03-2010 (Moscow) 

UNESCO Model Curricula for Journalism Education: What can Russia gain?

12-02-2010 (Quito) 

IPDC supports training of Latin American media professionals on Radio Journalism 2.0

11-02-2010 (Malé) 

UNESCO sponsors workshops on public service broadcasting in Maldives

08-02-2010 (Windhoek) 

Workshop on gender in media training to take place in Windhoek this week

04-02-2010 (Paris) 

UNESCO-supported Boundless Project promotes diversity and cross-border journalism

01-02-2010 (Rabat) 

UNESCO trains Maghreb public service broadcasters to reduce gender stereotyping

19-01-2010 (Windhoek) 

UNESCO and Rhodes University develop syllabus on reporting Africa

23-12-2009 (Moscow) 

Supporting development of media curricula in Belarus

21-12-2009 (Moscow) 

Media campaigns promote Millennium Development Goals in Moldova

17-12-2009 (Baku) 

UNESCO supports seminar on climate change for media professionals in Azerbaijan

17-12-2009 (Paris) 

Consultation in Bahrain commits Arab countries to improving journalism education

11-12-2009 (Rabat) 

Consultation on UNESCO Model Curricula for Journalism Education to take place in Rabat next week

03-12-2009 (Paris) 

UNESCO organizes regional consultation on its Model Curricula for Journalism Education

26-11-2009 (Quito) 

UNESCO and FELAFACS present mapping of communication training institutions in Latin America and Caribbean

23-11-2009 (Rabat) 

UNESCO trains Moroccan journalists to report on water

23-11-2009 (Paris) 

UNESCO trains Sudanese journalists on election reporting

20-11-2009 (New Delhi) 

National Symposium on Media Education in India starts today in New Delhi

20-11-2009 (Windhoek) 

Workshop on gender in media education to take place in Namibia next week

17-11-2009 (Beirut) 

UNESCO trains women media professionals from Arab countries

05-11-2009 (Kathmandu) 

Training for women journalists ended in Janakpur

23-10-2009 (Beirut) 

UNESCO opens regional media training center in Beirut

07-10-2009 (Paris) 

UNESCO’s initiative to strengthen journalism schools in Africa gains momentum

05-10-2009 (Paris) 

Radio journalists trained on election reporting in Rwanda

23-09-2009 (Nairobi) 

UNESCO commissions media assessment for the Great Lakes region

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