Posted on Wednesday 28 September 2011 - 15:47
Experts including journalists, communication experts, and journalism educators, communication experts in the ministries of education, other media practitioners and members of civil society organizations are currently meeting the Ghanaian Capital, Accra for a three day tool kit pre-validation workshop on education reporting in Africa from the 26-28 September 2011.
The tool kit if validated will enable African journalists and media practitioners to enhance their capacity in education reporting with a view to improve the quality of education in the continent.
The event which is organized by the Association for the Development Education in Africa, Working Group on Communication Development (WG-COMED) in collaboration with Ghana Journalist Association and the Institute for Continuing and Distance Education at the University of Ghana, Legon.
According to press release from The WG-COMED the three day event will attract participants from Anglophone, Francophone and North African countries. There countries are Ghana, The Gambia, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Nigeria, and South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe; Tunisia, Morocco, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroun, Democratic Republic of Congo, THE Republic of Congo, Cote d’ Voire, Guinea Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania Senegal and Togo.
‘’As a follow up to the production, Launch and trial-testing of the toolkit, the event will expose the participants to the toolkit and its applications and ensure that lesions issues drawn from the trial-testing will enable WG COMED to verify salient –political and cultural issues specific to each region or country on the continent,’’ the further stated.
It will ensure that educational issues transmitted by media practitioners requiring action are translated into concrete actions.
This initiative will also contribute to on the JOB CAPACITY Building for journalists and media practitioners who are engaged in the regional networks of journalist and other media experts as well as the implementation of national policies and programmes related to educational journalism.
The output and lesions learned from three-day workshop will enable WGCOMED apply the recommended adjustments on the various modules of the toolkit.
At the end of the pre-validation exercise, a final version of the toolkit will be drafted for validation and acceptance by all the major training institution in Africa in 2012.
During the last three years COMED, has developed partnership with a number of the training institutions in Africa, as well individual experts from media institutions, aimed at enhancing national capacity to ,produce high qualiy to produce high quality reporting of eductaionla news in Africa.
WG COMED has held similar workshops for the past 36 months throughout Africa, including Cotounou, Benin, Windhoek; Namibia, Grahamstown, South Africa, Gaborone,Bostowana and Rabat; Morocco.