Zimbabwean media benefit from climate change training
01-07-2009 (Harare)
Marcel Tchaou, from UNESCO’s
Harare Office, making a
presentation at the Workshop.
© UNESCO
Twenty-five media professionals from electronic and print media outlets across Zimbabwe benefited from a Climate Change Training Workshop organized through a joint initiative between the UNESCO Office in Harare and the British Council in Zimbabwe, from 15 to 18 June 2009.
Drawn from five radio stations, the country’s one and only television station, nine newspapers and the country’s only news agency, media professionals who attended the workshop included editors, bureau chiefs, reporters, producers and presenters - each with a distinct and strategic role to convey climate change messages to the public.
The climate change training for media professionals sought to:
The training workshop resulted in the formation of a network of climate change journalists, the compilation of a roster of experts and resources, the production of articles as well as the generation of programme ideas and concepts on climate change.
The workshop was part of the “Our Climate, Our Future - A British Council/UNESCO Initiative”, a three-year project which started in February 2009 and will continue until 2011. The Initiative seeks to raise awareness on the effects of climate change in Zimbabwe. It supports youth, professionals, networks, and focuses on relationships leading to adaptation and mitigation policies.
The climate change training for media professionals sought to:
- raise the awareness level of media professionals in climate change, causes, effects/impact and issues surrounding it with the goal of sensitizing them on the need to report extensively and intensively on the same;
- equip the media professionals with information, knowledge and skills to understand the science and facts around climate change with a view to demystifying the same for their audience;
- provide the media professionals with an opportunity to conceptualise and practise reporting on climate change from the perspective of various scenarios and angles.
The training workshop resulted in the formation of a network of climate change journalists, the compilation of a roster of experts and resources, the production of articles as well as the generation of programme ideas and concepts on climate change.
The workshop was part of the “Our Climate, Our Future - A British Council/UNESCO Initiative”, a three-year project which started in February 2009 and will continue until 2011. The Initiative seeks to raise awareness on the effects of climate change in Zimbabwe. It supports youth, professionals, networks, and focuses on relationships leading to adaptation and mitigation policies.
Maggie Mzumara, from UNESCO’s Harare Office, addressing the Workshop.© UNESCO
Related themes/countries
· Zimbabwe
· Training of Media Professionals
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- Margaret Mzumara, UNESCO Office in Harare
- Venus Jennings, UNESCO, Communication Development Division
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