Training local Madagascan radio stations on climate change issues

Ahead of COP21, which is set to take place in December in Paris, CFI has launched the project Media 21: Journalism and climate change, the first event of which brought together ten journalists from local radio stations throughout Madagascar. The aim was to teach them how to design, produce and broadcast programmes to help Malagasy communities understand and take ownership of climate change issues at local level.
The training course was led by Arnaud Jouve, a radio journalist from RFI (Radio France International) specialising in the environment.

The workshop kicked off with two information days to update the jounalists on climate change issues specific to Madagascar, the major challenges as regards impact, and the alleviation and adaptation policies implemented by NGOs, the State and its partners (the Directorate-General of Meteorology, the focal point of the National Office of Climate Change of the Ministry for Ecology, Maritime Affairs and Forestry, and the NGOs WWF and Tandavanala).
These instituions met with the radio stations to reflect on how to improve collaboration between radio stations and organisations specialising in providing information and assistance in the area of population behaviour change.

CFI will then provide the journalists involved in the Media 21 project with financial and editorial support to produce regular magazines and radio programmes with a special focus on climate change issues right up to the COP21 in December.