A short training to enable Community Based Organisations collect data on various thematic areas(e.g. health, education, tourism, economic empowerment) within their community and process such information for advocacy to engender a Community Driven Development. They will later be trained to use Poimapper, a mobile based, geo referencing data collection software to collect data on various issues within their communities.

1. 10 May 2017
CITIZEN JOURNALISM TRAINING
Ahmed Meyaki

2. 10 May 2017
What is Citizen Journalism?
Any type of news gathering and reporting -- writing and
publishing articles about a newsworthy topic that is done by
members of the general public rather than the professional news
agencies commonly referred to as "mainstream media.
Mostly a conversation about the transformative effect of the
Internet on the democratization of information
When the people formerly known as the audience employ the
press tools they have in their possession to inform one another,
that's citizen journalism [source: Rosen]."

3. 10 May 2017
Criticisms
What does it mean to be a "professional"
journalist if everyone is a journalist?
Real journalists, professional or amateur, adhere
to certain standards like fact checking, naming
sources, searching out opinions on both sides of
an issue and avoiding libelous statements
[source: Hogg

4. 10 May 2017
Positives
Amateur journalists have been responsible for a number of
notable "scoops" in the past decade. Photos and videos shot by
eyewitnesses during disasters , great occasions bring those
stories home
Future
Mass budget cuts
Rise of the internet as a comm tool. Mainstream media now
incorporate aspects of CJ in their everyday operations- twitter,
facebook

5. 10 May 2017
Community Based Organisations

6. 10 May 2017
• Membership organizations made up of a group of
individuals in a self-defined community who have
joined together to further common interests.
• Often consist of people living near one another, in a
given urban neighbourhood or rural village. They
can also be groups of people who are united by a
common interest but who do not live in the same
geographic community

7. 10 May 2017
• Examples include Youth groups, Bases, Magajiyas
• More Accessible
• Interact closely with local government, with other
levels of government such as local representatives
of central ministries, with the private sector, and
with NGOs

8. 10 May 2017
Sustainable Development

9. 10 May 2017
What is Development?
What is your idea of a Developed
Zongo Community?

10. 10 May 2017
Take 5 minutes to jot five to ten needs
that you have in your own life.

11. 10 May 2017
Have you listed any needs that conflict
with one another? For example, if you
listed clean air to breathe, but also listed
a car for transportation, your needs might
conflict

12. 10 May 2017
If within ourselves, we have conflicting
needs, how much is that multiplied when
we look at a whole community, city,
country, world?

13. 10 May 2017
How do we decide whose needs are met?:
• Poor or rich people?
• Citizens or immigrants?
• People living in cities or in the
countryside?
• The environment or the corporation?
• This generation or the next generation?

14. 10 May 2017
What is sustainable Development?
Heard of agenda 2030?

15. 10 May 2017
People concerned about sustainable
development suggest that meeting the
needs of the future depends on how well
we balance social, economic, and
environmental objectives--or needs--
when making decisions today.

16. 10 May 2017

17. 10 May 2017
Many of these objectives may seem to conflict with
each other in the short term. For example, industrial
growth might conflict with preserving natural
resources.
Yet, in the long term, responsible use of natural
resources now will help ensure that there are
resources available for sustained industrial growth
far into the future

18. 10 May 2017
All people in a society must have access to certain
basic goods and services in order to lead healthy,
fulfilling and productive lives
• Education and training must be available, so that
everyone has the chance to earn a decent living
and learn new skills
• Girls must have the same opportunity as boys to
go to school or to get jobs

19. 10 May 2017
• Women must have access to basic family planning
services and adequate health care and nutrition
for themselves and their children
• The elderly must receive the medical care, social
security and pensions they need to support
themselves as they grow older

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21. 10 May 2017
Agenda 2030

22. 10 May 2017
Community –Driven Development-CDD

23. 10 May 2017
• Gives control of decisions and resources to
community groups.
• As consumers, community members are the most
legitimate, informed, and reliable source of
information about their own priorities
• Treats community people as assets and partners in
development, building on their institutions and
resources.

24. 10 May 2017
Groups often work in partnership with demand-
responsive support organizations and service
providers, including elected local governments, the
private sector, NGOs, and central government
agencies:
E.G. IPASEC, USAID, Zongo Ministry

25. 10 May 2017
Has the potential to make poverty reduction efforts
more responsive to demands, more inclusive, more
sustainable, and more cost-effective than traditional
centrally led programs.
Community-developed facilities such as health
centers, schools, and water supply systems tend to
have higher utilization rates and are better
maintained

26. 10 May 2017
When communities are trusted to drive development
and are given appropriate information, support, and
clear rules, a system can be put in place not to provide
for poor people, but to facilitate their active and
ongoing role in rolling out poverty reduction efforts.

27. 10 May 2017
Discussions
Thank You