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CCMN NW; MEMBERS TASKED TO UPHOLD HUMANITARIAN REPORTING.


Members of the Cameroon Community Media Network CCMN within the North West Region, have been fortified professionally, with updated skills on humanitarian reporting, peace journalism and solution oriented reporting. This was the outcome of a one day capacity building organized by the Peace Office of the Presbyterian Church in Cameroon(PCC). These members, who came from different divisions of the North West region, were urged to refrain from the traditional way of reporting, to a humanitarian way of reporting, which promotes a peaceful and solution building society.


The six hour workshop which took place in Bamenda over the weekend, laid the foundation towards the second series of print and audio-visual peace productions, with a special focus on having members of the network, include aspects of humanitarian reporting reflected in all the contents expected to be produced in the days ahead. This according to the organizers, will help journalists reflect the plight and voices of the common Man that will invite the expected change for a shift in the narratives.


Members of the CCMN will therefore be expected to report with more professionalism, while upholding the wellbeing of humanity in reporting, protecting their sources of information and giving a fair representation of relevant voices that can enable their reports to be solution and people oriented .


According to the PCC Regional Peace Coordinator NWR, Keng Julliette, this workshop is meant to give birth to the production of programs on Peace Journalism and Conflict Transformation using a humanitarian reporting face. 

"The workshop is meant to kickstart the production of Peace Journalism and conflict transformation program which the PCC is executing in partnership with Bread for the world. We are using the Journalists, particularly the members of CCMN to execute the project. We are at the level of production and we hope that programs that will be produced, should reflect humanitarian Reporting, moving away from their traditional way of reporting and give way for hope journalism, produce Programs that will bring hope to the community,” Keng Juliette.


Though most of the participants are peace journalists who have been trained in different workshops as per issues like this, Some believed that this workshop came with a little difference and at the right time like Dighana Raymond of Abakwa Fm Radio.

"The workshop came at the right time. What we learnt today is not actually different from what we have been learning but I learnt something new when it came to humanitarian reporting. I was made to understand that in humanitarian reporting, we should report in such a way that is going to trigger positive change." Raymond intimates.


Given that these participants are in conflicts zones, Gilbert Nyongamsen Ndasi, a Peace Journalism trainer and one of the facilitators at the capacity building workshop, while articulating on Peace Journalism in practice; a critical reflection in Cameroonian case, said the topic is geared at helping Journalists reflect and localize the practice of Peace Journalism in their surroundings to see the factors that are obstacles to the peace Journalism profession.

"We are trying to look at the actual situation on ground, capturing factors that are hindering or promoting the practice of Peace Journalism and how peace journalists can be able to grapple with and come out of it still practicing as peace journalists".

This is part of the Project indicator of the PCC Peace Journalism and conflict transformation project with much focus on humanitarian reporting". To Gilbert Ndasi, it was needful for these Journalists to acquire these skills and to get more insights on peace Journalism in the context they are currently operating in.


It was therefore relevant for CCMN members of the North West who are also beneficiaries of this project, to get these skills and better knowledge so they can be able to engage production of programs that will help provoke humanitarian responses where need be.



Members of the Cameroon Community Media Network across the national territory just like those of the NW will be involved in peace productions tilted towards a humanitarian approach so as to contribute in the promotion of peace, non violence and toning down the plight of the vulnerable and minority population such as Internally Displaced Persons in crisis hit zones in Cameroon by inviting relevant humanitarian response while causing a   positive change in their various communities and a positive and growth mindsets .

By Rosaline Obah and Pechuqui Laurata


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