Events

National Community Learning Center meeting

6/02/2020 Nepal
UNESCO in collaboration with COINN Japan, National Commission for UNESCO, CEHRD and Shikharapur CLC is organizing a three-day event for the facilitators and managers of CLCs in order to build their capacities to better manage the CLCs. Participants from 35 CLCs throughout the country will participate in the meet. The event will also include an essay competition for the CLC facilitators. Winner will get an opportunity to visit the CLCs in Japan.    

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National interaction on Radio and Diversity

The interaction programme will gather about 120 stakeholders from media and showcase UNESCO work for the promotion of radio, freedom of expression and citizen’s access to information. The programme aims to review the status of diversity in all aspects of broadcasting in Nepal and to advocate for media policy/regulations and express joint solidarity with the local partners as well as the development partners on the importance of independent radio, community radio broadcasting. 

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13.02.2020 Kathmandu - Nepal

Workshop on Media policies, radio and diversity

The workshop will hold discussions with duty bearers to review the impact of existing and/or proposed laws and regulations affecting broadcasters and advocate for the independent radio sector. Objectives of the workshop are: • To review the impact of any existing and/or proposed law and regulations at province levels that can impact broadcasters and to advocate the promotion of independent and inclusive media at local levels. • To sensitize the duty bearers about the impact of existing policies and proposed media law upon the community radio sector • To discuss all-around diversity in local radio broadcasting and the pre-conditions for achieving the desired levels of diversity in terms of content, people's participation, resource allocation (by radios and local level supporters) Meantime, workshops will be held in the other six provincial headquarters of Nepal parallelly.

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11.02.2020 Kathmandu - Nepal

Workshop on Media in Elections

In view of present situation of media in the country, a series of trainings on producing gender-balanced contents, to young journalists working with print, online and broadcasting media will be conducted. The training workshop aims to give an exposure to young journalists on the dynamics of election reporting based on UNDP’s Training Module as well as UNESCO’s standards of Gender Sensitive Indicators for Media. The journalists and the women parliamentarians will have an opportunity to interact with each other on the problems and limitations of both the parties affecting the gender-balanced media coverage. The journalists and the parliamentarians will come out with a joint commitment through a joint exercise forming the working groups to recognize the needs of both sides. The training will be conducted in four different places: Kathmandu (18-20 October), Janakpur (21-23 October), Surkhet (4-6 November) and Butwal (8-10 November).

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18.10.2019

Launch of global digital library Asia

The Asia regional launch of the Global Digital Library is being held in Kathmandu, Nepal. The event will highlight the importance of the platform for stakeholders involved in reading materials development, primary education programming, or community reading programmes in the Asia region. Ministries of education, donor community and NGOs working on supplementary reading materials, school managers, teachers, international and national non-governmental organizations, local publishers, digital distributors and content providers in Asia are encouraged to attend.

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11.11.2019 Kathmandu - Nepal