OPPORTUNITIES: Movie Moves Youth Training

The Educational Center Krusevac, a non profit organization promoting civil society trough life long non formal education, is organizing the training course “Movie Moves Youth”.

The training course will be held in Serbia from the 5th to the 13th of October 2014, gathering 30 participants from 10 countries. The overall aim of the training is to develop competences of youth workers/leaders in using video as a tool for working with peace building issues.

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NEWS: UNICEF Trains Journalists On Child Issues (BELIZE)

Today was day 2 of a 3 day workshop for journalists on children's rights reporting. The workshop is being held by UNICEF and focuses mainly on children's issues in the media.

Some of the topics covered over the past 2 days included how to handle sensitive stories about children, and making the stories interesting without damaging children.

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TRAINING: Samar holds Advanced Media Skills Training for the youth

DARAM, Samar, Aug 30 (PIA) -- Thirty children and youth participated in the Advanced Media Skills training conducted on August 24 at Barangay Saugon in the island town of Daram, Samar. 

The participants aged 11 to 17 were from the municipalities of Daram, Gandara and Santa Margarita, all in the province of Samar, according to Janice Tapil, a Plan Philippines youth volunteer. 

The training was led by Plan Philippines, a non-government organization that advocates and protects the rights of children and AnakTV, whose advocacies are for child-sensitive and family-oriented television programs.

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NEWS / PROJECTS: Children’s TV News Coming to Ramallah

By Filistin Remawi

RAMALLAH, March 4, 2012 (WAFA) – With the help of the German Goethe Institute and in cooperation with al-Quds University's Institute for Modern Media children's TV news is coming to Ramallah.

Under the title "Prix Jeunesse" (Youth Prize), the Goethe Institute started on Sunday a three-day workshop in Ramallah on how to make children's news and how to promote their programs.

Markus Mörchen, director of the German children news channel "Logo", was invited by the institute to give an insight to Palestinian filmmakers and producers of German TV formats for children and to discuss the question: "What kind of TV news do children in Palestine want?"

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TRAINING: Youth enlightened on social media (NAMIBIA)

The Namibia Business Innovation Center (NBIC), together with Rlabs Academy, is hosting its first session of three workshops aimed at training young people in social media and its applications at the NBIC Innovation Village. The workshop started on 13 February and will end on the 24th of this month.

Rlabs Academy’s mission is to teach young people how to use different social networks and to learn IT skills, thus allowing them to become trainers, consultants or software developers for organisations that want to create, enhance and develop their networking activities. Previous workshop graduates have gone on to become trainers or consultants for businesses, creating about 400 jobs in total.

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NEWS / TRAINING: Intermedia Pakistan launches training sessions on child reporting

ISLAMABAD: Journalists from different print and electronic news media outlets in Islamabad will attend a day long training session today (Tuesday) on professional reporting about children in Pakistan.

The training is being arranged by Intermedia Pakistan, a media development organisation, working with UNICEF to improve the extent and quality of public discourse about child rights and protection issues. The project website www.childreninmedia.pk has also been launched; it will feature updates, news and events related to this initiative and will also highlight news content developed by the trained journalists. The media training in Islamabad follows the development of a code of ethics on child rights and protection issues. The code was drafted after consultation with senior journalists, media managers and relevant civil society organisations. The formal endorsement of voluntary code of ethics was done through two events organised in Karachi and Lahore by major media organisations.

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NEWS / TRAINING: South Sudan: Ministry of Information and UNICEF Host Media Workshop

Juba — A two days joint training workshop organized by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and the United Nations Children Fund on ethical guidelines on reporting on children was held in Juba last week.

The workshop attracted media practioners from the states of Jonglei, Eastern Equatoria, Western Equatoria and Central Equatoria. The workshop sought to deepen the understanding of the participants on the ethical guidelines on reporting on children.

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TRAINING: UNICEF to Train Journalists On Child Reporting n South Sudan (AFRICA)

Juba — The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) will be training journalists on ethical reporting of children this later this month, the organization's Chief Executive Sid Shresha has announced.

Mr Shresha made this announcement today during a meeting with the deputy minister for Information and Broadcasting Hon Atem Yaak Atem. He explained that the training will target journalists from all the states, especially those in the grassroots.

He also pointed out that the training will be on print and radio and will entail writing good stories and producing good programs about children.

"Children are the future of the country and when photographing them they need not to be shown in a difficult situation", he said.

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NEWS / TRAINING: Plan Ghana trains youth in ICT skills

Lassia-Tuolu, Sept. 4, GNA - Plan Ghana International, a child centered NGO, has empowered 28 selected youths from the Upper West Region with social media skills using Information Communication Technology (ICT).

Twenty of the youths were selected from the Saint Ignatius of Loyola Senior High School (SHS), while the remaining eight were chosen from Lassia-Tuolu community in the Wa West District. The US$6,000- project dubbed: 93Youth Empowerment Through Art and Media (YETAM)" was sponsored by Plan-USA.

The aim was to expose the youths to the modern social media technology and skills available for problem solving. Briefing the Ghana News Agency in Wa at the weekend, Madam Joyce Odame, Plan Ghana Child Rights Advisor, said participants were trained on how to identify social problems such as teenage pregnancy, poor sanitation and high birth rate among others in their various communities.

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NEWS / PRINT / TRAINING: IGNOU, UNICEF sensitise scribes on infant deaths

New Delhi: The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) along with UNICEF sensitised media personnel on the high infant mortality and low immunisation levels in Madhya Pradesh, a statement said Thursday.

"A 20-member team comprising national, state and district level media visited Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh and observed the low rate of routine immunisation and high infant mortality in the state," a varsity official said.

The journalists visited the state-of-the-art special care newborn units, set-up by the National Rural Health Mision (NRHM) and UNICEF, as well as the cold chain vaccine storage units in the district.

According to IGNOU, the visit was part of second phase of its partnership with UNICEF launched a month ago to address the issue.

The journalists got a first-hand experience about the micro-planning involved in the handling of cold chain equipment that maintains vaccines at right temperatures.

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NEWS / TRAINING: Linden youths participate in UNICEF multimedia training (GUYANA)

Linden youths were the first in the country to benefit from a United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) multimedia training session aimed at equipping the nation’s children to share their knowledge and experiences on issues affecting them.

About 100 children from ages 10 to 19 converged at the Egbert Benjamin Exhibition and Conference Centre last week to attend the training over a three-day period. The objective of the sessions was to ensure that children across the country were informed of their rights, HIV prevention, child abuse, domestic violence, gender-based violence and birth registration. At the end of the course, they were expected to be able to contribute to their schools’ newsletter and share their knowledge and experiences with others in the wider Region Ten community.

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NEWS / ARTICLES: Children’s media trainings expanded (PACIFIC REGION)

MORE than 110 children in the Western Province are now able to use communication skills learnt from basic communication training.

The children were from the Save the Children child clubs of Vella la Vella at Paramata and Leona, Simbo at Masuru and Nusa, Munda at Kokeqolo and Dunde, Rarumana at Vunerima and Suitonami and Gizo at Pailoqe and Mile three took.

These children were recipients of these skills after Save the Children Child Club Advocacy Project (CAP) decided to expand its media project component to children in the provincial areas.

The training funded by Save the Children and AusAID was conducted by Honiara based CAP media officer Aldrin Peloko assisted by Save the Children CAP team leader in the Western Province, John Lilo.

The aim of the project was to build the child club members capacity, media skills and communication to produce simple media materials that will help advocate for children's rights.

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OPPORTUNITIES: Course on reporting about children offered [South Africa]

Journalists interested in reporting about children can attend a course in Johannesburg.

The 10-day course, offered by the University of Witwatersrand, aims to give participants knowledge and skills in children’s rights, ethics and the law surrounding reporting on children.

The course will give participants access experts in a wide field, help them write clearly on children’s issues, strengthen writing skills and identify the effect that poor media coverage of children can have. Participants are required to attend all seminars and contribute to class discussions.

The course will take place from July 4 to 8 and from July 18 to July 22, 2011.

For more information, contact journinfo@wits.ac.za or click here.

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TRAINING: Journalists Trained in Children's Rights

Rubavu — The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), in partnership with the Journalist Association for the Protection and Promotion Of Children's Rights, is training 35 journalists how to promote and safeguard children rights.

The three-day training, which started yesterday at Diane Fossey Hotel Rubavu District, is the second this year and draws media practitioners from both private and public media.

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OPPORTUNITIES / TRAINING / WORKSHOPS: Invitation to Funded Workshops in Finland 2011

Teachers, head teachers, teacher trainers, and child, youth and adult educators from EU countries,* Croatia, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Turkey and Switzerland, are eligible for Comenius or Gundtvig grants. The funding is available for workshops taking place in Oulu, Finland during 2011 and includes participant travel costs, accommodation (plus breakfast and lunch), and the course fee.

*Please note participants from the host country, Finland, are required to pay their own costs.

The next deadline to apply for workshop funding is 14 January 2011 – funding is for educators in employment and also those who are currently unemployed and seeking employment.

The 5-day workshops run from Monday to Friday and a choice of dates are available between May-October for each of the three themes:
1. Introduction to Film-Making
2. Education for Sustainable Development
3. Digital Tools and Media Literacy

Programme details, application instructions and information about how to apply for funding are available from http://www.psk.fi/in-english/comenius-grundtvig-studies.html

Looking forward to seeing you in Oulu
Ros Cooper - Workshop Facilitator

NEWS: Children's drama co-production into 7th series (ASIA)

Friday 26 Mar 2010 - Children's drama co-production among ABU members has moved into its seventh series with a meeting of producers and directors from six countries in Kuala Lumpur.

Staff of RTB-Brunei, CCTV-China, NHK-Japan, RTM-Malaysia, RTHK-Hong Kong and LNTV-Laos met from 24 to 26 March to discuss the story telling proposals for their co-production. There were also screenings of the previous production for further improvement.

Two workshops on improving storytelling were held alongside the meeting.

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OPPORTUNITIES: Foreign correspondent training for young journalists to be held in Prague

Posted on: 04/09/2009 Basic Journalism, International Experience Deadline: 09/10/2009 Region: Worldwide

Young journalists and students from around the world are invited to attend a foreign correspondent training in Prague from January 3 to 11, 2010. The early bird deadline is October 9.

Participants will receive a practical introduction to international reporting from experienced foreign correspondents from major news outlets including the BBC, the New York Times and the Associated Press. By the end of the course, participants will have written their own stories.

The reduced 'early bird' fee for applications received by October 9 is €955 (US$1,395). The full fee for later applications is €1,075 (US$1,595). Scholarships are available for participants from Central Asia and Eastern Europe.

The program is organized by Transitions Online.

For further information, visit http://journalism-courses.tol.org or e-mail plockovaj@tol.org

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ARTICLES / TRAINING: Training local journalists to cover women’s and children’s issues in Nepal

Training local journalists to cover women's and children's issues in Nepal

By John Brittain

KATHMANDU, Nepal, 27 July 2009 – Remote and unspoiled wildernesses abounds in this unquestionably beautiful country. But such beauty comes with a price: Some villages are at least a week's walk from the nearest road, making it very difficult to get timely reports on conditions and developments in these areas.

UNICEF Nepal has been working to solve the problem of how to receive news – especially news about women's and children's issues – from remote regions on a regular basis. Its solution is taking shape in the form of a new initiative that was launched in June, in partnership with the Nepal Press Institute (NPI).

The initiative established a new network of journalists to cover remote areas, as well as some that are not so remote. Over 50 journalists from every region – most of them women – have taken part in a training programme designed to generate more reporting on women's and children's issues around the country.

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OPPORTUNITIES: MEDEA Award for Creativity and Innovation - European Year of Creativity and Innovation 2009 (EYCI)

The MEDEA Award for Creativity and Innovation, set up to coincide with the European Year of Creativity and Innovation 2009 (EYCI), aims to specifically award creative and innovative use of media in education.

Who is it aimed at?

Anyone who considers their use of media in education and training to be creative and/or innovative! This includes innovative applications of media in the classroom where pupils and teachers are working together to use media in different ways to enhance learning or trainers and facilitators in lifelong learning centres who are using media creatively to help learners explore new opportunities. It also includes groups of students who are working together on projects using media to explore and understand the world in a more creative way.

Applications are invited from people using media in a variety of ways and could include for example a submission like the one which earned 5 learners and teacher Steven Ronsijn from the secondary school Sint‐Lievenscollege, Ghent in Belgium the MEDEA Special Award 2008 at the MEDEA Awards Ceremony 2008 for their outstanding entry entitled Anti-Anti. This multimedia pervasive game was created entirely by secondary school students to sensitise students in the context of the national day against unnecessary violence. Students had to search a fictitious murderer in their school through clues provided to them in mp3‐files and video clips.

How can you enter?

This Award is open to anyone participating in the MEDEA Awards 2009. In the submission form, you will be able to indicate that you consider your entry to be particularly creative or innovative and thus that you wish to compete also for this special award. A special group of judges from the MEDEA Judging Panel will be assessing these entries separately.

Your entry need to be sent before the closing date: 30 September 2009, 12:00 Midnight (postmark will be checked).

When will the winners be announced?

Those short-listed for this Award will be notified at the beginning of November and will be invited to take part in the Awards Ceremony taking place in the beginning of December 2009. At this ceremony the final winner will be announced.

What can you win?

Prizes will include the MEDEA Creativity and Innovation Award as well as equipment and software, details to be announced later.

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NEWS / TRAINING: Rwanda: Scribes Train on Reporting on Children's Rights (AFRICA)

Rwanda: Scribes Train on Reporting on Children's Rights

Kigali — A total of 21 scribes drawn from different media houses in the county are undergoing training aimed at building their capacity to report on children's rights.

Chrystel Intaramirwa, Plan Rwanda's Child Rights coordinator, said that the trainees will in turn train 60 children and youth in Gatsibo District, in basic media skills to enable them (children) to advocate for their rights through media.

She also revealed that Plan Rwanda will set up a Youth and Children Media Club that will be equipped with computers, cameras and internet connection.

She explained that this will help the youth and children to keep learning and engaging with media outlets to advocate for their rights and promote reconciliation.

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