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Friday, December 23, 2022
NCDMB enhances media competencies with capacity building - NaijaAgroNet
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Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has enhanced some journalists capacity building at a workshop with the theme: Enhancing Media Competencies to Support Nigerian Content in a Gas Economy, reports NaijaAgroNet.
The event organized annually by the board for media practitioners to enhance their capacity and competence in the field of journalism.
Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has enhanced some journalists capacity building at a workshop with the theme: Enhancing Media Competencies to Support Nigerian Content in a Gas Economy, reports NaijaAgroNet.
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
RBM unveils media fellowship, celebrates impactful 20 years - NaijaAgroNet
Precisely, NaijaAgroNet gathered, that October 30 marks two decades of global action against malaria as the RBM Partnership to End Malaria as they celebrate 20th anniversary and launched new media fellowship to build on achievements which to date have contributed to saving more than 7 million lives and preventing over 1 billion malaria cases.
Originally established as Roll Back Malaria (RBM) in 1998 by the United Nations Development Programme, UNICEF, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the World Bank, today the RBM Partnership to End Malaria is the largest global platform for coordinated action against malaria. Through increased funding, distribution of millions of lifesaving interventions and by introducing innovative and improved tools, the Partnership has played a key role in global efforts that have reduced malaria deaths by over 60%, contributed to an 1,000% increase in malaria funding, and added an estimated US$2 trillion to the economies of malaria affected countries.
Looking towards future action, the RBM Partnership to End Malaria is now launching a first-ever media fellowship, open to journalists from the 11 countries in the world with the highest burden of malaria, according to the most recent World Malaria Report.
Successful candidates will meet with some of the world’s leading health and malaria experts to understand the key challenges and opportunities for ending malaria in their home countries. According to latest WHO data, 10 countries in sub-Saharan Africa and India represent over 70% of the world’s malaria cases. The RBM Partnership will provide support to the selected fellows with their projects and features relating to malaria for one year. Journalists will be encouraged to explore their own interests within the field, and to delve deeper into solutions that could be employed to meet their country’s challenges from the malaria burden. The closing date for applications is 31 January 2019.
The chief executive officer (CEO) of RBM Partnership to End Malaria, Dr Kesete Admasu, said the global partnership over the past two decades has significantly reduced malaria deaths and cases, saving 7 million lives.
“This progress has allowed us to set our sights on ending this preventable disease for good. As we celebrate our 20th anniversary, we look toward what we can accomplish in the next 20 years, including inspiring new audiences about the historic opportunity to end malaria. This media fellowship will offer much-needed support to journalists in the highest burden countries who want to shine a light on the impact malaria has on their communities and the urgent need for citizens and country leaders to drive further progress against the disease, especially at a time when cases are on the rise,” he said.
NaijaAgroNet also gathered that events marking the 20th anniversary will also reflect the achievements of the past two decades and look ahead towards upcoming opportunities for malaria elimination.
The celebrations, he further said, will conclude an event in Maputo, Mozambique that coincides with the annual launch of the WHO World Malaria Report and a new High Burden to High Impact: Targeted Malaria Response, on 19th November.
“To highlight the key successes against the disease over the past two decades, the RBM Partnership have created a new video of these achievements, which is available here,” he said.
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Educating Nigerians on nutrition requires media stepping up - NaijaAgroNet
Educating Nigerians is one of the cardinal points for the media in the country, especially on nutrition-related issues, which requires media practitioners to step up their games, says the Communications Officer at the Civil Society Scaling-Up Nutrition in Nigeria (CS-SUNN), Mrs. Lilian Aja-mong, reports NaijaAgroNet.
Speaking at a 3-day media workshop on reporting nutrition which opened in Abuja, Monday, she noted the urgent need to step up media engagement in and around reporting nutrition and urged for redoubling of efforts.
She told participants at the workshop with the theme: Role in Ensuring Transparency and Accountability in Allocation and Use of Health Nutrition Funds in Nigeria, it’s time to intensify efforts in educating Nigerians on the dangers of malnutrition in the country so that requisite actions can be taken for a better society, so as to limit the associated menace.
He commended participants and urged them to make good of the workshop by learning as much as possible to increase their passion on curtailing malnutrition in Nigeria using the power of the media, that is result driven, efficient, serviceable, effective and transparency.
Welcoming participants, CS-SUNN Project Manager, Mr. Sunday Okoronkwo, pointed out that part of the effort of the organization has been to train journalist on how to write a comprehensive report on malnutrition aimed at achieving the desired goals.
NaijaAgroNet also gathered that part of the objectives of the workshop is to build the capacity of media to write stories for transparency and accountability in allocation and use of health cum nutrition funds in focal states and country at large.
In addition, the work tends to engender passion and commitment to reporting health and nutrition issues through site visits for first-hand experience of challenges in the sector, as well as disseminate and ability to correctly and accurately interpret the 2014-2018 health and nutrition budget analysis for media audience, whereas increasing salience of nutrition and making it a front burner on agenda of government.
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Wednesday, May 2, 2018
Make family planning sermons, media executive urges religious leaders
The Chief
Operating Officer (COO) of Leadership Newspapers, Mr Dele Fanimo, gave this
charge at the Lagos office, when a delegation of Family Planning Media Advocacy
Working Group (FPMAWG) led by its chairperson, Mrs. Chioma Umeha, paid him an
advocacy visit.
Churches and
mosques, he told NaijaAgroNet, need
to do more, underlining the fact that some of these things should form part of
the Sunday sermon and Friday mosque service.
“They need
to demystify the myths and misconceptions to their members. Imagine a woman
attaching child birth to inheritance. Some will say, if you live in a man’s
house and no so, you will suffer when the man dies.
“Not able to
cater for a large family can also lead to corruption because when you have more
than you can care for, you would be forced to steal,” he bemoaned.
He also
called on traditional leaders, religious leaders and political elites to help
and demystify the myths and misconceptions of family planning as the media
alone cannot do it.
As part of
contributing its quarter in creating more awareness on FP, Fanimo assured
FPMAWG that Leadership Newspaper is ready to work with them, declaring that he
and Leadership team are already converts on FP.
Fanimo, accompanied
by the acting General Manager, Southern Operation
at Leadership, Mrs. Angela Tony Iji, further urged the FPMAWG to see beyond newspaper publications
but go to the rural communities, community leaders and other stakeholders to
sensitize them on the importance of FP.
“… They in
turn will now be an advocate of family planning,” he declared.
The working
group chairperson, Mrs. Umeha, noted that Family Planning (FP) has been a
worldwide issue, which paved the way to an international Family Planning Summit
in London on July 11, 2017, to discuss efforts to reach the FP 2020 goals and
ensure that more women and girls around the world are able to plan their
families and their future.
Umeha at the
advocacy visit was in the company of Chioma Obinna of Vanguard Newspapers and Remmy Nweke of DigitalSENSE Africa
Media, publishers of NaijaAgroNet, pointed out that the
Summit made a commitment to increase the Contraceptive Prevalence Rate (CPR)
from 15 percent to 27 percent by 2020 at that meeting.
He also said
that in Nigeria, government at both the Federal and State have shown commitment
to the provision of free FP services to the entire women of child-bearing age
in the country.
Further, she
said that family planning initiatives when effectively done, could reduce
maternal deaths by up to 34 per cent and newborn death by about 15 per cent.
Also, the chairperson’s
team included Pastor Olusegun Omotayo Adeboye as well as Mrs Shotomiwa Olubunmi,
both of Lagos Advocacy Working Group (LAWG) and Public Health Sustainable
Advocacy Initiative (PHSAI).
Monday, January 29, 2018
Family Planning: LASG tasks media on accurate information
The Lagos State Commissioner
for Health, Dr. Olajide Idris, has charged Nigerian media to ensure propagation
of accurate information on Family Planning (FP), reports NaijaAgroNet.
Dr. Idris in his address
to a three-day workshop on Advance Family Planning (AFP) Smart Media Advocacy by the Pathfinder International
in Lagos, commended the orgnisers and enjoined all hands to be on the deck.
The
Commissioner represented by the Director, Family Health Unit, Lagos State
Ministry of Health, Dr. Shade Oludara, said, “Media needs to spread the correct
information at all times, and not confuse the people the more.”
Oludara who led a
delegation comprising the Coordinator Family Planning, Lagos State Ministry of
Health, Dr. Okaga Sidiat, stressed that Lagos would soon enter into some community
health campaigns which media could help in propagating.
Equally, the
Commissioner highlighted some traditions and misconceptions militating against
adequate Family Planning uptake, especially on Modern Contraceptive Prevalent
Rate (MCPR) in the state.
In some instance, he
said, “Some people told our FP team in one of their sensitization programs that
family planning is bad and as a woman, you need to bring out all the eggs God
has given you by birthing, else it would turn to cancer.”
Equally
speaking, Dr. Okaga, who doubles as Coordinaator, Reproductive Health in the state,
urged media practitioners to always approach her office for confirmations and
clarifications where necessary.
This, she
said would forestall any misinformation, hence Pathfinder is trying to close
this gap with this workshop.
She further
outlined some key words media practitioners in family planning should take note
of to include, Contraceptive Prevalent Rate (CPR), FP - family planning; and RH
- Reproductive health to name a few.
According to her, when
family planning is properly done, mortality rate will reduce drastically to
over 30 per cent and meeting the target of 74 per cent CPR uptake by end of
2020.
Earlier in his welcome
address, the Associate Director at Pathfinder International office in Nigeria,
Dr. Habeeb Salami, said that the workshop objective is to change the narrative
on family planning in the country for good.
Dr. Oludare later inaugurated the Lagos State Family Planning Media Working Group, led by Mrs. Chioma Umeha.
Dr. Oludare later inaugurated the Lagos State Family Planning Media Working Group, led by Mrs. Chioma Umeha.
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Sunday, January 14, 2018
FG calls for media self-control in Benue herdsmen attack
In a press statement issued in Abuja on Saturday, and made available to NaijaAgroNet, the Minister of Informationand Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said while the Federal Government is working
hard to address the situation with a view to preventing a recurrence, not just
in Benue State but everywhere across the country, it is incumbent on the media
and public commentators not to engage in actions that can aggravate the crisis.
''Lest we are misunderstood, we are neither saying the media
should not cover the crisis nor asking public commentators to desist from commenting
on it. All we are saying is that both must be circumspect.
''The current poisoned atmosphere of incendiary comments,
unrestrained use of pictures and footages that offend human sensibilities as
well as fingerpointing can only exacerbate the situation and complicate ongoing
efforts to end the crisis,'' he said.
Alhaji Mohammed said the Federal Government is absolutely
saddened by the loss of lives and the destruction of property resulting from
the crisis, and recalled that President Muhammadu Buhari, in commiserating with
the Benue Governor, unreservedly condemned the killings and also assured of the
necessary security measures to prevent further attacks and bring the
perpetrators to book.
He said the Federal Government has also mapped out short and
long-term solutions to the incessant clashes between farmers and herders, including
a planned conference of stakeholders, and assured of the government's strong
determination to find a lasting solution to the farmers/herders' clashes.
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Friday, September 22, 2017
Nigerian media tasked on family planning uptake
The
Associate Director, Family Planning and Reproductive Health at Pathfinder
Nigeria, Dr. Habeeb Salami, has urged Nigerian media to ensure family planning
uptake in the country, reports NaijaAgroNet.
Salami in his opening remarks at a
one-day media parley on the 2017 fourth round survey of Performance, Monitoring
and Accountability (PMA2020) as part of the Lagos Family Planning (FP) Advocacy
Working group (PHSAI), and supported by Pathfinder International, said the
objective of the session was to engage the media and provide participants with
relevant information with regards to latest survey results.
This, he said, would avail media to
better
package their reportages toward advocating for improved family planning.
As
said by him, the session would also encourage media to link the data from Performance, Monitoring and Accountability (PMA2020) to family
planning with the anticipated outcome of reducing Maternal Mortality (MM).
He
pointed out on the need to draw attention to poor understanding and the role of
family planning in reducing maternal mortality.
Dr.
Salami reiterated the call on the media to do everything possible
professionally to make certain Nigeria continue to see increase in better
family planning.
NaijaAgroNet notes that PMA2020 and media parley also had supports
from the Federal Ministry of Health, National Population Commission, National
Bureau of Statistics, Lagos State Ministry of Health, Bill & Melinda Gates
Institute for Population and Reproductive Health (Johns Hopkins University) and
was funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Saturday, August 13, 2016
Expert offers media headstarts to explore open data for improved agriculture produce
The
Executive Director, Local Development Research Institute (LDRI) Mr. Muchiri
Nyaggah has urged African media practitioners to explore some headstarts on
open data to encourage improvement in agriculture produce of the continent,
reports NaijaAgroNet.
Speaking at
the round-up session at the week-long training for the Comprehensive Africa
Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) Journalists Network which ended
recently in Nairobi, Kenyan capital, Mr. Nyaggah suggested some five headstarts
which he believes will motivate the discuss on open data from the African
perspective among practitioners.
He listed
the potentials to include the possibility of African media practitioners focusing
on progress in agricultural productivity, stunting in children under five,
domestic food prices, possible advances in agricultural produce and improving
capacity to generate agriculture data cum statistics.
Nyaggah also
said these outlines are doable and could be explored before the end of this
year, mostly working in collaboration with members of the network.
He expressed
optimism that the outcome will be memorable as LDRI and partners are on queue
to technically support participants in order to improve their deployment of
open data in daily newsroom activities.
“LDRI and
its partners will provide technical support in finding datasets, identifying
visualization options,” he assured.
In addition,
Nyaggah said, some of the suggestions will be exposed on TransformAgriculture.org
and selected for the CTA magazine.
NaijaAgroNet gathered that within this project, CTA in partnership with the New Partnership
for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) Agency as facilitated by Local Development
Research Institute (LDRI) tend to improve the lots of African media, using open
data.
Further, NaijaAgroNet recollects that the training was part of the Global Open Data for
Impact and Capacity Development on Agriculture and Nutrition (GODIVAN) scheme,
a Department for International Development (DFID) project, implemented under a
joint venture of international partners with the aim to increase production of
the agricultural sector, improved nutrition for consumers and more
evidence-based policy making, in which these desired changes are based on
enabling communities practically engage with open data.
Pix: Muchiri Nyaggah, Executive Director, LDRI Kenya
Tuesday, June 21, 2016
Hammer prescribes open data-driven journalism for Africa media
The Lead Operations Officer, World Bank Institute’s Global
Media Development programme, Mr. Craig Hammer has offered some prescription to drive
African media on open data, reports NaijaAgroNet.
Speaking at a 3-day workshop on reporting agriculture put
together by Africa Media Initiative (AMI) and World Bank in the city of Abidjan
at the weekend, Mr. Hammer, said that data-driven journalism would drive good
governance, accountability and global knowledge economy.
Hammer, who dwelt on ‘Data-Driven Journalism Media,’ defined data
as information that has been translated into a form that is more convenient to
analyze.
He also revealed that World Bank has over 9000 data that
could be explored by any analysts including journalists in dissecting information
for the simple understanding of ordinary citizens.
According to him, today’s world is ruled by three distinct paths,
especially for media practitioners, which include having access to information and
open data, finding agriculture data with today’s relevance and finally, using open
data-driven journalism knowhow based on ideas to deliver their stories.
African media practitioners, Hammer said, must first decide which
issues matter to them nowadays and what are ‘the right’ questions which will
attract the right answers or responses either from the data base or potential
respondents.
Earlier in
his opening remark, the chief executive officer, Africa Media Initiative (AMI)
Mr. Eric Chinje, noted that in majority of African countries,
agriculture accounts for over 60 per cent of national economic activities and
revenue, yet, the sector gets a disproportionately small amount of media coverage,
thereby contributing less than 10 per cent to the national economic and
political discourse.
As said by Chinje, recent AMI-sponsored
survey of major media markets on the continent established that reporting on
the sector remained largely uninformed and was limited to press releases,
industry publications, and a growing number of blog posts as well as social
media blurbs.
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Pix: Mr. Craig Hammer
African media must take charge of African narratives – Nyaggah
African media practitioners have been tasked to take
charge of narratives coming from the continent, says the Executive Director,
Local Development Research Institute (LDRI), Mr. Muchiri Nyaggah, reports
NaijaAgroNet.
This, he said, must be done specifically in the
coverage of agriculture sector whilst enmeshing the narratives with relevant
data in order to tell the stories more explicitly.
Nyaggah gave this charge in a presentation he made
at a three-day Reporting Agriculture workshop in Abidjan, the Cote D’Iviore
capital organised by the Africa Media Initiative (AMI) in conjunction with the World
Bank.
Dwelling on “Using Data in Reporting on Agriculture
in Africa” Nyaggah cited an instance with the recent report on Kibera’s people
which was largely exaggerated to be between 800,00 and 1million people;
purportedly living in the shanty town in an area of only 255 hectares, meaning
that population density is so high that people have only about 1 meter space
per three persons each.
The report, he noted however, added that over
100,000 children were believed to be orphans due to the high incidence, but
according to him, this story was very far away from the truth because it was
being reported from the eyes of foreign media elements in collusion with some
non-governmental organisations (NGOs) who did not do their home-works well.
To take charge of the narrative, Nyaggah said Africa
needs evidence to fix it’s challenges, because, “He who has the data controls
the narrative.”
African media practitioners, he said, could only
hold their governments accountable when their stories or narratives are backed
with evidences based on relevant data, giving another instance that the World
Health Organisation (WHO) otherwise known as the World Health Assembly (WHA)
has target on nutrition that there would be about 40 per cent reduction in the
number of children under 5 who are stunted by 2025.
He pointed out that story on nutrition for instance
has data from WHO to back it up, such narrative would make a better sense both
in understanding and seriousness by the authorities, mostly in a developing
economies like Africa.
Nyaggah recalled that in 2014, the African Union Heads
of State and Government recommitted themselves to the Comprehensive Africa
Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) principles and objectives in Malabo.
He emphasised that 65 per cent of Africa’s labour force is employed in the agriculture
sector and contributes just over 30 per
cent of the continent’s GDP, coupled with the increasing need to achieve
food sufficiency for 1.5 billion people by 2020 makes agricultural
transformation pivotal to achieving the Health Policy Initiative (HPI)
objectives.
The LDRI boss, insisted that African media
practitioners have not been very philanthropic with the power of narratives due
to lack of supporting data and enjoined them to explore the use of data in their
editorial contents.
Monday, June 13, 2016
AMI, World Bank three-day workshop on media on agriculture opens
The meeting expected to last till Thursday, June 16 seeks
indepth and informative media coverage on development themes was notably
uninformed.
NaijaAgroNet reports that in addition, there have suspected superficial,
perfunctory or lacking altogether in media across most of Africa, according to
the organisers, the World Bank Group and the African Media Initiative (AMI).
They also said that the objective is to expand and deepen
media understanding as well as coverage of agriculture and related issues by
media on the continent.
The Chief executive, AIM, Mr. Eric Chinje, said the mission
is to support the media to play a more decisive role in promoting democratic
governance, economic growth, social development and citizen empowerment in
Africa.
“It seeks to narrow the gap that currently exists between
media content and national development agendas,”
He also said that AMI has two strategic pillars namely strengthening
African media houses through viable business, models, technology use, effective
audience measurement, and improved ethics, and improving media content by
reinforcing the capacity of reporters to cover development stories,
establishing platforms for program exchange and cross-fertilization, and
identifying incentives for writers and other content producers. Its strategic
goal is to reduce the gap between media content and the development agenda of
countries on the continent.
Chinje also said that the organization supports the
emergence of a media sector that is professionally proficient, financially
sustainable, technologically efficient, and socially responsible so that it can
best serve the public interest and informs the Africa narrative.
Thus, AMI seeks to engage, empower and strengthen the
capacities of African media owners and operators by tackling key constraints to
media action, and to drive the development content agenda through a programme
of specialization among journalists in the critical sectors of the economy in
Africa.
On the collaboration with the World Bank Group, he said, AMI
look out to mainstream media coverage and promote content that enriches the
continental dialogue on agriculture and its related issues. Both will work together
with other relevant partners to develop training packages and generate the
resources necessary to build a critical mass of media specialists to focus on
agriculture, a sector that is critical to growth in national economies.
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