Period: 1982-1990
IPDC project priority: Human Resource Development
This project was implemented over the period 1982-1992.
Period: 1982-1987
Period: 1982-1992
Period: 1982-1986
Period: 1982-1987
The Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) emerged as a professional body representing the interest of journalists since 1949. GJA is on eof the most important civil society organizations in Ghana and a strong advocate of press freedom and freedom of expression. GJA plans to conduct ICT workshops for journalists, to enchance the performance of media professional by ICT use and to increase the number of journalists capable of employing ICTs in their work. The workshops will take place over two week periods for individual groups of 40 covering a total period of 8 weels. An interactive training...
Madagascar has been suffering from an unresolved political crisis since 2009 which has resulted in declining economic and human rights indicators and a widening communications gap between the Malagasy population and its leaders. With no mechanisms to ask for information, or hold their leaders to account, the population remains marginalised and disenfranchised from the democratic process with negative impacts on local governance. In the rural south in particular, where almost three quarters of the population are not literate, poorly educated and isolated, radio is the only source of...
A research summary report of the African Media Development Initiative (AMDI)14, indicates that literacy rates for urban areas of Tanzania average 35.4% and that the country has some of the lowest rates of access to Television and Newspaper based media across sub-Saharan Africa, with only 34% watching TV and 31% reading a newspaper at least once a week. The AMDI report also highlights low levels of professional, ethical, management and technical standards among media practitioners, which is attributed to: insufficient or poor-quality training institutions; rapid expansion of media outlets (...
Journalism training in Malawi has progressed in leaps and bounce since the country’s return to a multiparty system of government. Historically, the media training institutions have approached journalism training from a traditional perspective in keeping with the way journalism has been practiced in the country and the region. In terms of curriculum standards, each institution pursues its own. While this is generally a norm in most training institutions in the world, including Malawi, it is preferable to have certain bench marks for all institutions. But media in Malawi is responding to...
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