CFD projects cover all aspects of media development and include:
- Basic skills training for journalists
- Reporting on human rights
- Reporting on the information society
- Reporting on issues of science in developing countries
- Parliamentary reporting
- Seminars on journalism rights and advocacy
- Technical skills training
- Toolkits for journalists
Recent CFD projects have included work across the Middle East Africa and Europe:
WSIS: Reporting the Information Society -
Informing the Middle Eastern media perspective, a programme to train a group of Iraqi and Iranian journalists in reporting on issues of the information society. A workshop was held on reporting on the information society and after the workshop, with the active support of CFD media trainers, the reporters covered the World Summit on the Information Society on issues including technical innovation, censorship, the 'digital divide' as well as issues of freedom of expression.
Interim study of media and post-war laws pertaining to free expression in Iraq -
Together with Index on Censorship with funding by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, CFD studied Iraqi media and post-war laws pertaining to free expression in Iraq. Several journalist toolkits and manuals in Arabic, English and Kurdish were published.
Training for Arab Journalists in Coverage of Water Issues -
CFD held previous training seminars for Arab journalists on the coverage of Water Issues for Middle Eastern/North African reporters. The final aim was to raise awareness on water and desertification issues in the Middle East. The training seminars in Jordan were followed up by reporting commissions at the World Water Forum.
Parliamentary Reporting, Opening the Doors of Government -
In the framework of the EU MEDA Democracy Programme CFD organised seminars on the role of the media in developing parliamentary democracy in the Middle East and North Africa. The seminars were followed up by reporting commissions at the parliaments in Beirut, Lisbon and London.
Science & Research Reporting in Africa - CFD ran seminars in techniques in reporting science and research issues for young West African journalists followed up by reporting commissions at the UNESCO World Science Conference in Budapest. |
