United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization or UNESCO in partnership with Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency or SIDA has set efforts to build capacity and strengthen young South Sudanese media professionals’ skills through photography and conflict sensitive reporting.
UNESCO indicates in an invitation that the first training phase takes 12 days, covering 20 journalists from various media houses, beginning Monday July 20th to August 1st 2015 in Juba.
The training is expected to cover six key areas including freedom of expression; history of photography, best practices in digital photojournalism, photography as a profession in a conflict country; computer skills in editing photos and ethics in photojournalism.
The initiative is expected to be rolled out in other parts of South Sudan in future to ensure that more photojournalists are equipped with expertise in photography and conflict sensitive reporting skills.