Towards bridging the identified gaps in knowledge and capacity in climate change in Africa, the Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) is set to once again partner the British Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) on a media campaign project tagged: “Climate Change in News Media”.
With funding support from the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), the project is aimed at training journalists including reporters and editors from select newsrooms in Nigeria and Ghana.
According to CJID, the project also seeks to empower the participants to report climate change impacts and consequences, policy actions and inactions by their respective governments, global and transnational negotiation processes, and the local solutions already existing in these countries.
The centre noted in a statement issued ahead of the commencement of the project that the partnership becomes important considering the fact that “Africa is…
