Fourth Edition of the AFRODAD Media Initiative EMPOWERING MEDIA TOWARDS AN IMPACTFUL AFRICAN DEBT CAMPAIGN

Introduction The African Forum and Network on Debt and Development (AFRODAD) and the Union Nationale des Journalistes de Côte d'Ivoire (UNJCI), member of the Fédération Intérnationale des Journalistes will be hosting the fourth edition of the AFRODAD Media Initiative (AFROMEDI IV) themed “Empowering Media towards an Impactful Africa Debt Campaign,” from 19th to 21st March 2024 in Abidjan, Cote d’I. [...] The initiative seeks to: (i) build media’s reporting capacity on debt issues; and in turn they gain increased capacity to (ii) shape the public debate and putting pressure on policymakers to answer to the call of transparency, accountability, and good governance. [...] The place of media in the African debt campaign - Stop the Bleeding. [...] The MDT will contain aspects of understanding and reporting informed by the political economy of debt, gender sensitive reporting on development finance, approaching climate finance reporting, issues to consider when reporting on debt and trade, the place of artificial intelligence in reporting on development finance, etc. [...] - The National Union of Journalists of Côte d'Ivoire is a member of the International Federation of Journalist which is the world's largest organisation of journalists with 600,000 media professionals from 187 trade unions and associations in more than 140 countries.