Today, 02 December 2014, UNESCO in partnership with 5 Community Radio Stations in South Africa (Bush Radio, Jozi FM, Radio Atlantis, Radio Riverside and Valley FM) are hosting a training workshop focusing on humanitarian reporting and development journalism - particularly how community radios can report on development issues relevant to their respective communities. This workshop will address humanitarian reporting but put more emphasis on coverage of development issues such as maternal health, access to education, climate change and poverty reduction. Yesterday participants were introduced to the basics of Millennium Development Goals and how South Africa has fared. Importantly, they were taught how to come up with community-level stories from the MDGs. Today they correspondents will also be introduced to the post-2015 development agenda (Sustainable Development Goals) and how they can contextualise them for their listeners. Participants will also be capacitated on how they can question the responsible authorities on missed targets. In addition, where targets are met, community radios will be taught how to ask critical questions whether such achievements are seen at community level. Concerning the post-2015 development agenda, community radios correspondents will be equipped with information on what has been happening and how they can help in bringing communities on board in these discussions. Central to the post-2015 agenda is the alignment between community-level priorities and national development goals with an emphasis on inclusivity. This translates into attending to the practical needs and concerns of communities and focus on ‘how’ development work will be practically implemented. It is most important that the media is included in the dialogue to have a successful dialogue with civil society and society at large. This workshop will thus lead to a constructive roadmap that the community radios can adopt to get the South African people aware of issues on community, national, regional and global levels, but also to get the aspirations of the South African people known on national, regional and global level. This will lead to a greater transparency and accountability of the Government and Development Partners. The correspondents will also be taught how they can make their development stories interesting and able to attract the attention of both the editors and the listeners. There is concern that most development stories do not sell. As such, the workshop will show how this perspective can be countered by writing attractive and rich development stories. The workshop is facilitated by Shepi Mati and Chimbidzikai Mapfumo.
Posted on: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 09:58:09 +0000
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