Botswana: Minority Rights and Indigenous Peoples Media skills training - March 2010

Minority Rights and Indigenous Peoples Media Skills training in Botswana

Start Date

March 22, 2010

End Date

March 26, 2010

Location

Gaborone, Botswana

Event summary

This five-day training, offered by Minority Rights Group International (MRG), aims to equip minority and indigenous peoples activists (individuals and NGOs) with media skills to generate their own information and to interact with local, regional and international media especially in the European Union.

Specific aim

· To build the capacity of minority and indigenous NGOs in the region to generate their own media material and to interact with European Union based and other international media.
· To develop contacts between community NGOs and European Union and other international journalists to provide better focus on indigenous and minority issues in relation to MDGs.

The course includes the following topics:

Theme Analysis
-- Analysing key issues that currently affect the specific minority/indigenous communities, which the participants represent.
--How to identify the International human rights standards that directly relate to the issues affecting indigenous and minority communities
-- How to identify community stories/ issues that would be of interest to EU and other international audiences.
-- Analysis of ways in which foreign audiences gather information on minority and indigenous communities e.g TV, internet social networking tools and sites etc.
-- How to determine the timing of stories to match major international newsworthy events.
-- How to Include gender focus in media stories,
--How to include other groups who often experience intersectional discrimination e.g. those with disabilities, HIV/AIDS etc.
-- How to make and build media contacts with the EU media

Technical Training
-- Training on effective use of still and video cameras
-- Training on recording and editing audio and video segments for online use
-- Training on using the Internet to get messages out to a wider media audience via pod-casts or download feeds.
-- Training on writing press releases, conducting interviews, responding to interviews by foreign and local journalists, using blogs and diary notes, analysing media content.

-- Training on observation of libel laws and avoiding damage to reputation.

On-line media for advocacy

Using social networks for advocacy.

Registration Information

Full sponsorship including travel and accommodation is available to 18 participants (10 local participants from Botswana and 8 international participants from Africa). However, those interested and can sponsor themselves are welcome to participate.

For a registration/application form and details of the training, please contact MRG using the contact details below.

Contact

Mohamed Matovu

[email][email protected]
Minority Rights Group International, Africa Office
Lujjumwa House, Ggaba Road
P.O. Box 31607 Kampala, Uganda

Tel: +256 312 266832 (Office)
+256 782 748 189 (Mobile)