Deadline: 20-Sep-20
ICFJ is excited to launch three Training of Trainers (ToTs) series that will create a core group of 30-45 journalism trainers who will scale the program’s impact across 15 target countries from the Americas, Western Pacific and South-East Asia and Africa.
The virtual ToTs sessions are designed to enable select local journalists to independently develop the capacity within their local networks for improved and increased road safety coverage. These online training courses are meant to maximize interaction between participants and their trainers, facilitate group discussions, and ensure that trainers are able to address the questions and concerns of participants. The selected participants should be able to support journalism on road safety, but more importantly, become trainers and mentors and eventually conduct their own road safety reporting trainings.
ICFJ, with the support of WHO invites journalists to apply to the 2020 Road Safety Training of Trainers. The ToTs will be a series of online workshops beginning for the first cohort in October of 2020. Each cohort, containing 10-15 participants, will attend three online workshops (approximately three hours each) in the fall of 2020. The program will culminate in an online summit for all 30-45 of the participants from across the regions.
The ToT is limited to the following countries:
- Latin America: Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Ecuador, Colombia
- Western Pacific and South-East Asia: Bangladesh, India, Philippines, China, Vietnam, Malaysia
- Africa: Ethiopia, Ghana, Tanzania, Uganda
Criteria
- The training sessions will span over three weeks and convene virtually once a week to cover topics such as traffic system perspectives in target countries, links between road safety and the Global Development Agenda, investigative reporting and incorporating road safety resources like the WHO Global Status Report, localizing road safety training to engage more journalists, and producing data-driven road safety reporting that engages audiences. The program is open to journalists who have demonstrated an interest in road safety reporting. Experience conducting trainings is not necessary, but applicants should be able to discuss a rough training plan including what groups they will target for training in their own country.
- After each ToT, ICFJ will offer small grants to support participants to lead their own road safety reporting training. Participants interested in this competitive process will be required to submit a short proposal, identifying how they wish to implement their independent training, how many journalists they expect to reach, as well as a brief budget proposal outlining expected costs.
- In addition to the funding support, ICFJ will provide one-on-one virtual mentorship to participants as they plan their training after the ToT trainings. Participants will be expected to plan and execute their own local training in early 2021.
For more information, visit https://www.icfj.org/our-work/2020-road-safety-reporting-training-trainers
