Raising Climate Change Awareness in Five South Asian countries
Enhancing climate change awareness and understanding amongst journalists in South Asia March 2012 – March 2014 for Panos South Asia
Amount awarded to NGO £384,399 ($590,052) Donor: Climate Development and Knowledge Network (CDKN)
Client: Panos South Asia & Panos London
Overall objective: Increase the South Asian mainstream media’s capacity to play a role engaging their populations and governments in responding to the challenges posed by climate change.
Specific Objectives:
1. Increase the capacity of the South Asian mainstream media to produce greater quality and volume of reporting on climate change in a way that includes demand-led stakeholder perspectives
2. Raise the capacity of national and local media in six South Asian countries to establish climate change agendas
Results:
Editors, CEOs and Chairmen deem climate change to be central to mainstream debate in South Asia
Mainstreaming climate change in editorials, news reporting, talk shows
Enhanced advocacy for high impact-low cost interventions for achieving climate compatible development agenda among concerned policy circles
Increased public awareness of climate change issues and national / international policy responses in the developing and emerging economies.
Greater public accountability of national climate-change negotiators in developing and emerging economies
Activtities
1. Baseline Survey - Assess media coverage on the issues / tracking national media coverage
2. Editors’ Retreat - 12 leading mass media organizations debate the central role of climate change, and commit to mainstreaming climate change reporting in their work.
3. Climate Change Fellows Capacity Building: - Two regional workshops - Daily support; monitoring and evaluation. Support to ongoing editorial coverage – Story research support
4. Field trips – 24 Journalists witness at first hand the affect of climate change on their region.
5. SACCA Fellowships – South Asia Climate Change Award fellowship programme integrating 24 print, radio and electronic journalists from India, Bangaldesh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Bhutan will produce 240 mainstream media reports/programmes on climate change
6. Online Platform - Develop the SACCA website as online resource centre for climate change journalists and editors.
7. Annual Media Excellence Awards SACCAs
8. Sacca Newsletter – Production of a newsletter reaching 3,000 climate change media specialists twice a year.
9. Impact Report - Monitoring and evaluation summary of project impact.