The
UNESCO Dar es Salaam Office is conducting a 7-day training workshop for
community radio practitioners on Editorial, Programming and Monitoring on
Issues of Local Concern.
The
training which started on Tuesday February 06 has brought together 49 community
media practitioners from 24 UNESCO supported community radios.
The
main objective of the training is to build capacity of community radio
journalists and reporters on news formats. The move is meant to enable
them report on issues of local concern through investigative journalism, sports
news reporting and monitoring the quantity and quality of news bulletins.
Participant contributing her points.
Participants
to the training comprise of journalists and reporters as well as monitoring
focal points previously trained on M&E by UNESCO.
UNESCO
has localized Gender Sensitive Indicators for Community Radios to emphasize on
“sex disaggregated participation list for workshops”. To put this into
practice, selection of participants from community radios will adhere to gender
balance aspects.
Mentorship
in journalism for local public interest, in particular investigative journalism
will come after the training where 72 journalists are expected to gain
knowledge through peer learning.
UNESCO with the
financial assistance from the Swiss Development Corporation (SDC)
supports community radios and the Community Media Network (Tanzania
Development Information Organization- TADIO).
The support is meant to
ensure that people in Tanzania, especially the poor, women and girls, have the
capacity to make informed decision on issues that affect their daily lives.
Above and below discussion groups of participants on news editing
session.
Community radios in
attendance under the SDC support with their regions in brackets are Nuru FM
(Iringa), Pambazuko FM (Morogoro), Fadhila FM (Mtwara) Jamii Mtukwao FM
(Mtwara), Loliondo FM (Arusha), Baloha FM (Shinyanga), Kahama FM (Shinyanga)
Ileje FM (Songwe) and Tripple A FM (Arusha). In the list are Storm FM
(Geita) and Sengerema FM (Mwanza), Kwizera FM (Kagera), Dodoma FM (Dodoma) and
Kitulo FM (Njombe). Others are Uvinza (Kigoma), Mpanda (Katavi), Pangani
(Tanga), Boma (Kilimanjaro), Mazingira (Mara), Mtegani FM (Unguja South,)
Mkoani FM (Pemba South), Micheweni FM (Pemba North) Tumbatu FM
(Unguja North), Ruangwa FM (Lindi) respectively.
The training covers
77.4% of all regions in the United Republic of Tanzania.
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