The Afghan Journalists Safety Committee (AJSC) conducted a nine-day training program aimed at strengthening the professional capacities of journalists and media workers.
A total of 100 journalists from 19 provinces, including 20 women and 80 men, representing 83 visual and audio media outlets, participated in the program. Two additional rounds of the training program are scheduled to be held in the near future, covering a further 200 journalists.
The first round of the program was conducted through a hybrid format (in-person and online) in Kabul, Herat, Balkh, and Khost provinces. Participants joined from Kabul, Ghazni, Nangarhar, Balkh, Badakhshan, Takhar, Kunar, Nimroz, Maidan Wardak, Bamyan, Daikundi, Herat, Ghor, Farah, Badghis, Faryab, Jawzjan, Samangan, Saripul, Khost, Paktia, Paktika, and Logar provinces.
The program focused on strengthening journalists’ skills in fundamentals of journalism, news reporting, investigative journalism with a focus on climate change, mobile journalism, cybersecurity, and journalist safety. The climate change component covered topics including the use and assessment of reliable sources, information verification, combating misinformation, access to data, and producing human-interest and media reports on the environment and climate change.
According to pre- and post-training assessments, participants’ overall knowledge increased by 36 percent. In an online evaluation completed by 91 participants, 90 percent expressed satisfaction with the training program.
AJSC conducts training programs in various areas of journalism to strengthen the professional capacities and skills of journalists and media workers across Afghanistan.
