Food riots across Africa, sparked by the global economic crisis, have made food security the continent’s most pressing issue. Is your newsroom equipped to cover the issue quickly, intelligently and in depth? Africa is home to three-quarters of the world’s “ultra-poor”. Food aid may solve their immediate hunger, but longer-term solutions are needed to bolster food security.Sign up your journalists to the Regional Hunger and Vulnerability Programme’s two-day training workshop. Prizes will be offered to the best report on the topic by participants in each country. |
The first workshop will be held in Lusaka, Zambia
on Tuesday and Wednesday, 10-11 November 2009 at the Protea Hotel, Cairo Road, Lusaka, Zambia.
The workshops in
- Tanzania (Tuesday and Wednesday 24-25 November 2009),
- Botswana (Tuesday and Wednesday 19-20 January 2010) and
- Malawi (Tuesday and Wednesday 26-27 January 2010)
have a similar programme, sponsorships and equivalent prize for the best story.
Programme Day 1:
- Introduction to covering poverty – plus film screening
- Debate with local experts on how the Zambian media covers poverty
- Introduction to the RHVP
- A deeper look into poverty in Zambia
- Field trip: Guided tour of local anti-poverty project plus interview opportunities
Programme Day 2:
- Review of what was learned on the field trip
- Generating poverty story ideas
- Turning poverty story ideas into fully-fledged story concepts
- Planning stories on poverty
- Sourcing information on poverty and poverty interventions
- Interview with RHVP expert
Sponsorships available
The first 10 Zambian journalists signed up for the Lusaka workshop will be fully sponsored by RHVP. Fill in the registration form (available below) and send to Obakeng Mooke at omooke@frayintermedia.com
Cost of the Lusaka workshop
The registration fee for latecomers who did not receive sponsorship is ZMK 374,000 per person.
Prize for best Zambian story on Poverty, Food Security and Social Protection
The RHVP will adjudicate and grant a prize of ZMK 2,5-million to the journalist who writes the best story published or broadcast on the topic within a month of the workshop – and his or her news organisation will receive ZMK 1,26-million. The RHVP’s decision on the winner is final.
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Covering Poverty, Food Security & Social Protection is an RHVP initiative, funded by the United Kingdom’s development agency, UKaid, and is aimed at increasing and enhancing news media coverage of poverty and poverty policy interventions in the Southern African Development Community region. |
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See the workshop programmehere for the two-day workshop. |
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Please return the registration formto Obakeng Mooke on omooke@frayintermedia.com or fax number +27 11 325 2631 or contact her at +27 11 341 0767 to attend. If you will email the registration form, click here to download a Microsoft Word copy to your computer. If you will fax the form, click here to display it. |
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The workshop is funded by:
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