Cameroon: Journalists Drilled on Climate Change Reporting
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Cameroon Tribune (Yaoundé)
16 January 2008
Posted to the web 16 January 2008
Fred Vubem
The British Council in Cameroon in collaboration with the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association, CBA, is currently offering a two-week training programme for journalists in Cameroon on how to report on climate issues.
The training course brings together some 30 journalists from the print, audio and audio-visual media drawn from both the public and private press. The training course will comprise lectures, presentations, practical sessions and field trips to some of the areas worse hit by climate change in Cameroon. The lectures on climate change are offered by experts from the Ministry of Environment whereas journalistic reporting skills on climate change is assured by an expert from the Commonwealth Broadcasters Association in London, Janet Barrie.
Present at the opening ceremony, were representatives from the Prime Minister's office and some concerned ministries as well as the Second Secretary at the British High Commission in Yaounde, Ross Matthews.
According to the Political and Public Diplomacy Officer at the British high Commission in Yaounde, George Fominyen, the motivation to organise the training course stems from the fact that the public needs to be informed on the effect of climate change on their lives so that they can adopt environment-friendly behaviour so as to curb the adverse effects of climate change and journalists are very important partners in the process of dissemination of information. Hence, the need for the journalists to be trained so that they can dish out right and accurate information to raise awareness on the issue of climate change.
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