By Teresa Ndirangu
Arid Land
Information Network (ALIN) a Non Governmental Organization this year received
United Nature Development Programme (UNDP) for Global Environment Fund Small Grant
Programme (GEF SGP) to promote knowledge sharing among all NGOs grantees
working on Natural Resource Management or Sustainable Landscape Management in
Laikipia County. To fulfill the mandate ALIN organized a three
days training workshop from 22-24 July 2014 that took place at Olympia Hotel in
Nyahururu. Total of 14 participants from different
organization were in attendance, 10 men and 4 were women. They were under
through information gathering, analyzing and dissemination to improve their
skill specifically on citizen journalism.
The
training was mainly facilitated by knowledgeable resource person, Anthony and
Bob. The two facilitators from time to time engaged participants’ participation
through practical, questions as well as giving chance for experience sharing. The areas covered included differentiation of
citizen journalism and general journalism, elements of news and good creative
news writing.
The expectation of
the workshop is that all presented organizations immediately after training will
open their own blogs to share news of their work and progress. They NGOs are
also expected to be share the news with ALIN for wider sharing.
