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).

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.