NEW: Water and Land - Journalist Workshop for the Arab Countries
UNW-DPC, UNCCD and the Arab Water Council (AWC) are jointly organizing the Water and Land Capacity Development Workshop for Water and Environmental Journalists in the Arab Countries to take place on Cairo, Egypt on 22-24 January 2009. The main objective of the workshop is to create awareness among media professionals in Arab countries regarding the current situation of water resources management and land degradation in the region, and to seek active involvement of the media for creating public awareness and advocacy to promote sectoral reforms to support the Millennium Development Goals and the Convention to Combat Desertification.
The expectation is that with increased media attention to these issues, there will be more public awareness, which in turn, draw more intensified attention by decision-makers on these issues.
The participants of the workshop are water and environmental journalists and media professionals from Arab countries representing different print and electronic media (radio, television, newspapers, Internet, etc.). Some of the journalists who will participate in the workshop will come from the following media:
African Network of Environmental Journalists (ANEJ) (Mauritania)
Al-Ahram Hebdo (Egypt)
Al-Arab International (Morocco)
Al-Balad Radio (Jordan)
Al-Intibaha Nespaper / Association of Pre-scientific Sudanese Media (Sudan)
Algerian Radio (Algeria)
Amman Net Radio Station (Jordan)
Arab Science Journalists Association (ASJA) (Egypt)
Arabic IT News Agency / Al-Methaq Newspaper (Yemen)
As-Safir Nespaper (Lebanon)
Environment and Development Magazine (Lebanon)
IslamOnline (Egypt)
Moroccan Network Media of Environment and Sustainable Development(Morocco)
Public Information Directorate, Ministry Of Water & Irrigation (Jordan)
Sfax Radio (Tunisia)
Yemen News Agency (SABA) (Yemen)
The expected outcomes of the workshop are:
The participants of the workshop are water and environmental journalists and media professionals from Arab countries representing different print and electronic media (radio, television, newspapers, Internet, etc.). Some of the journalists who will participate in the workshop will come from the following media:
African Network of Environmental Journalists (ANEJ) (Mauritania)
Al-Ahram Hebdo (Egypt)
Al-Arab International (Morocco)
Al-Balad Radio (Jordan)
Al-Intibaha Nespaper / Association of Pre-scientific Sudanese Media (Sudan)
Algerian Radio (Algeria)
Amman Net Radio Station (Jordan)
Arab Science Journalists Association (ASJA) (Egypt)
Arabic IT News Agency / Al-Methaq Newspaper (Yemen)
As-Safir Nespaper (Lebanon)
Environment and Development Magazine (Lebanon)
IslamOnline (Egypt)
Moroccan Network Media of Environment and Sustainable Development(Morocco)
Public Information Directorate, Ministry Of Water & Irrigation (Jordan)
Sfax Radio (Tunisia)
Yemen News Agency (SABA) (Yemen)
The expected outcomes of the workshop are:
- The participating media professionals acquire knowledge about the social, governance and technical nature of water, desertification, land degradation and drought (DLDD).
- Journalists will have explored how the key issues are linked to news and feature stories they investigate and where to look for further information.
- Increase public awareness of the problem of water and DLDD and possible impacts on them in the Arab countries.
- Compilation of reports from the participants prepared for the workshop regarding the national situation of media in their countries related to water and DLDD issues.
- After the workshop, the participants will be encouraged to report on how they have adopted the ideas learnt from the workshop in their work. These reports will be included in a final workshop report that will be largely disseminated.
For more information, please download the workshop flyer and poster.
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