GAMBIA PRESS UNION

Capacity building has been the GPU's main focus as majority of the practitioners are without formal education in journalism. We provide long-term and short-term professional development courses for journalists on a number of areas of specialisation: women's rights, children's rights, human rights, online, cyber security, layout, broadcast journalism, investigative journalism, community journalism, courts, freedom of expression, elections, public finance, transitional justice, conflict sensitive reporting, among others... We have more than a decade of experience working on the promotion of community journalism. We have rolled out a number of tailored training programmes. Last year saw our efforts intensified as we host a national forum on community media sustainability. The plan is to scale up our campaign towards ensuring sustainability of community media outfits in terms of legislative and regulatory frameworks, improvement of skills, governance and provision of infrastructure. We..