NGO Trains Female Journalists on Effective Climate Justice Journalism

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By Esther Enna

Media professionals across the country have been charged to focus attention on creating awareness of women on climatic and weather conditions as steps towards addressing environmental challenges.

A Climate Change Reporter Vivian Chime gave the charge at a two days training for female journalist, Organised by a Non governmental organisation, Education as a Vaccine in Abuja.

Participants at the the two days training were made up of female journalists drawn from Nasarawa, Benue and Niger states including the federal capital territory Abuja to find ways of increasing media awareness of women on climatic issues.

Speaking on the theme of the workshop, Vivian Chime who is also the lead facilitator of the event said women are the most vulnerable to issues related to climate change hence the need to pay more attention to carrying them along in the areas of awareness creation on the impacts of climate change.

According to Vivian Chime, challenges associated with climatic condition, especially health, education, poverty and displacement could be mitigated if journalists adopt a Gender Lens Reportage with focus on women.

Vivian explained that as part of providing solutions to the effects of climate change in the society, government at all levels and community leaders should include women in the decision making process to drive an innovative inclusive response to climate change .

Programme Manager, Education as a Vaccine , Rumunse Obi called on journalists to approach stories on climate issues with a human angle perspective and highlight more on climate adaptation issues aimed at informing the public on how to mitigate disasters as they occur in the society.

Earlier, A programmer officer of Education as a Vaccine, Sandra Jonathan explained that the training was to provide journalists with requisite knowledge on how to report women and girls issues related to climate crisis.

Some participants at the training, Zainab Sani and Esther Akaa said the training was an eye opener as according to them, they had been exposed to climate change-related issues from the gender perspective.

Highpoints of the two days training were group discussions as well as question and answer sessions.

The theme of the workshop is” Effective Climate Justice Journalism.

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