Afri’kibaaru 2: Promoting Social and Sustainable Development Issues

The Afri’kibaaru 2 project offers a series of training courses on editorial, technical and managerial practices for media personnel (managers, journalists, technical and administrative staff), as well as a program of activities (coaching, press trips, seminars with scientists, etc.) aimed at enabling them to better understand the issues related to climate change and to strengthen their capacities to produce quality content on these themes.

The component of activities implemented by CFI specifically aims to strengthen the capacities of media and journalists in Senegal, Guinea, Côte d’Ivoire and Cameroon to produce reliable, accessible and quality content on the effects of climate change and which promote adaptation and mitigation solutions supported by authorities, communities or eco-innovative companies.

Project Progress

• Strengthening editorial, technical and managerial capacities
  • A launch seminar per country with two selected media managers.
    • These launch seminars (1 per country), in which 2 managers per media will participate, aim to present the objectives, challenges, methodology, activities and expected results of the project, as well as to define the on-site coaching program that each media will benefit from (3 on-site coaching sessions of 5 days per media).
  • Editorial and management training
    • These training courses aim to strengthen the editorial capacities of the media as well as their administrative and economic management.
  • On-site coaching
    • These on-site coaching sessions will support each media outlet on themes defined during the launch seminars during 3 sessions of 5 days each.
  • Remote coaching
    • The training in solutions journalism and information verification will be extended by a period of remote coaching which will provide journalists with individualized support in the production of content and support them as closely as possible to their needs in the application of the learning.
  • Gender equality training modules
    • These one-day training modules, each spread over the duration of the project in each of the four countries, aim to provide partner media with resources that will enable them to act more effectively for better representation of women in their editorial policies and managerial practices.
• Strengthening media and journalists’ knowledge of climate change and producing content on these issues
  • Training seminars on climate change concepts and lexicons
    • 2 journalists from each beneficiary media will participate in 3 2-day seminars to enable them to better understand the topics and issues related to climate change.
  • Press trips
    • The beneficiary media from each country will benefit from 8 press trips to places where the effects of climate change are visible and measurable in order to produce reports illustrating in a very concrete way the way in which these phenomena impact human activities and biodiversity.
  • Coverage of national events
    • The beneficiary media will have the opportunity to cover a national event related to the theme of climate change (conference, forum, etc.) by participating in temporary editorial offices that will be established by CFI on the sites of these events (1 event per country).
  • Coverage of an international event
    • 4 journalists (1 per country) will be invited to cover an international event related to climate change, allowing them to develop an African narrative on global issues.

Cost Covered

• From a logistical point of view, the project will cover travel, accommodation and catering costs if necessary, for meetings, seminars and workshops. For participants coming from other municipalities than Dakar, Conakry, Abidjan and Yaoundé, transport costs will also be covered by the project.

Eligibility Criteria

• This call for applications is addressed to 20 media outlets from West and Central Africa (5 in Senegal, 5 in Guinea, 5 in Ivory Coast and 5 in Cameroon), and more specifically, to:
  • 40 media managers from the 20 selected media (2 managers per media – the person in charge of media management and an editorial or managerial manager) participating in the launch seminar, editorial and management training, and the closing conference, as well as occasionally in other activities implemented by the project.
  • 40 people responsible for the financial and administrative management and/or commercial development of the selected media (2 people per media).
  • All journalists from partner media participating in editorial training, and more specifically, around 40 journalists selected per media, for activities such as remote coaching, press trips, or coverage of national events, among others.

For more information, visit CFI.