11 January 2006

MRA TO HOLD WORKSHOPS ON TRANSPARENCY, JOURNALISM TRAINING


Media Rights Agenda (MRA) and the World Bank Institute will be holding workshops in Nigeria in February to raise awareness of the importance of access to information and of improved reporting on development, poverty and economic issues.

The first workshop, entitled "Information and Media Environment in Nigeria", will be held in Abuja from 1 to 3 February 2006.

It will bring together legislators, policy-makers, government officers, civil society organisations and media professionals to address key issues related to media and access to information.

It will examine the significance of information access and transparency for better government and development, the capacity and constraints of government departments in making information easily available and accessible to citizens and the media, the constraints civil society face in pursuing governmental accountability, and the role of the mass media as effective intermediaries of information.

Participants will work together to create preliminary action plans for addressing these constraints.

The second workshop will be held in Lagos from 6 to 8 February and will aim to improve and increase local media coverage of development, poverty and economic issues.

Roughly 50 editors and journalists are expected to take part in the workshop, which will examine key economic issues such as global economic systems, poverty reduction strategies, and the role of local and international institutions in fighting poverty.

For more information on the access to information workshop, see:
http://mediarightsagenda.org/wbkmra.html
For more information on the journalism training workshop, see:
http://mediarightsagenda.org/wbkskill.html


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