Deadline: 17-Jul-22
The Thomson Reuters Foundation (TRF) is now inviting applications for its Communicating locally-led solutions for climate change adaptation.
This is a training opportunity provided by Thomson Reuters Foundation, with the support of Global Hub on Locally-Led Adaptation of the Global Center on Adaptation. Floods. Droughts. Severe heat stress. Water shortages. Crop loss. Forest fires. Disease.
This is a training opportunity for 12 changemakers and communicators from local civil society organizations (CSOs) that work on addressing the local impacts of climate change. This opportunity offers a chance to strengthen the important role CSOs play, in empowering adaptation efforts by local actors.
Thomson Reuters Foundation’s dual track programme offers an excellent opportunity for journalists and CSOs to collaborate towards raising awareness and visibility of locally-led adaptation efforts to climate change.
The dual-track programme aims to strengthen trust between journalists and NGOs/CSOs by upskilling journalists to better report on the topic and enhancing CSOs’ communications to effectively communicate their message to the media. Journalists and CSOs will be trained separately, but networking and collaborative exercises will be organised for the whole group.
Eligibility Criteria
- This training opportunity is open to changemakers and communicators of organisations that are engaged in locally-led efforts to deal with the impacts of climate change. With a hands-on approach, participants will be equipped to better communicate with the media and the general public local efforts to adapt to climate change.
- At the end of the programme, you will be able to:
- Communicate their efforts to counter climate change and its impact on local communities effectively.
- Define and segment audiences for CSO communications
- Develop clear, accessible key messages for target audiences
- Map a communications campaign
- Understand the use of digital marketing and multimedia skills training tools
- Understand the news cycle and how journalists work
- Communicate with the media via day-to-day press relations and crisis management
- Prepare a spokesperson for interviews and presentations
- Practice interview skills
- Interact with journalists using a ‘solutions journalism’ perspective
- You will also become part of the GCA’s global network, which will support your efforts to champion locally-led adaptation.
- Changemakers and CSOs communicators actively working in locally-led adaptation efforts to climate change. In order to better accommodate different time zones, priority will be given to journalists from Bangladesh, Egypt, Ghana, and Kenya.
- Applicants must be part of an organisation that understands and works on locally-led adaptation efforts
- Applicants must be currently working at a CSO have a minimum of three years’ professional experience. Applicants must have a role, or an interest, in working with the media to amplify local needs and challenges related to climate change impacts to a wider national and global audience
- Applicants must have a high proficiency level of spoken and written English
- Applicants must have access to a minimum internet speed of 8 MB/second.
- Applicants must commit to participate for the whole duration of the programme.
For more information, visit https://www.trust.org/media-development/opportunities/?sfid=a053z00000xx2e0AAA&sfProgId=a153z00001G5efHAAR&areaOfFocus=Climate%20Change,%20Environment%20&%20Resilience