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Communication and Good Governance - West and Central Africa

Country

Benin, Chad, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Sao Tome & Principe, Togo

Region

Global, Africa

Programme Summary


Communication and Good Governance in West and Central Africa' seeks to strengthen the human and technical capacity of communication media in 10 countries (Benin, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Sao Tome & Principe and Togo) in order that they can contribute effectively to the process of good governance.

Communication Strategies



Activities include specialist training and seminars on good governance issues for media professionals and trainers. As part of this process UNESCO has held and plans future sub-regional and national workshops on themes including: the concept of good governance; role of media in good governance; law, good governance and communication; legal framework and media practice; and media, peace and conflict resolution.

Development Issues



Democracy, political development, peace.

Key Points



Media organsiations which have the trained human resources and strengthened technical capacity to gather, process, produce and disseminate news and information to different segments of the society can contribute considerably to general development and to buttress democracy and good governance in Africa.

Partners



The programme is funded by UNESCO and the Federal Republic of Germany.

Contact

UNEP
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Asia and the Pacific
UNEP Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific
United Nations Bldg., Rajdamnern Avenue
10th Floor, B-Block
Bangkok 10200, Thailand
Tel: (66-2) 2881870
Fax: (66-2) 2803829
sarabuddhi@un.org

Europe
UNEP Regional Office for Europe
15 Chemin des Anémones, Châtelaine-Genève
1219 Chatelaine, Geneva
Switzerland
Tel: (41-22) 917 82 79
Fax: (41-22) 917 80 24
roe@unep.ch

Latin America and the Caribbean
UNEP Regional Office for Latin America & the Caribbean
Boulevard de los Virreyes No. 155
Col. Lomas Virreyes, CP 11000- Mexico
D.F., Mexico
Tel: (52-55) 5202 6394
Fax: (52-55) 5202 0950
enlace@pnuma.org

North America
UNEP Regional Office for North America
1707 H Street, NW, Suite 300
Washington, D.C 20006
United States
Tel: (1-202) 785 0465
Fax: (1-202) 785 2096
bvd@rona.unep.org

West Asia
UNEP Regional Office for West Asia
P.O. Box 10880
Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain
Tel: (973) 17812752-17812777
Fax: (973) 17825110
uneprowa@unep.org.bh

Africa
UNEP Regional Office for Africa (ROA)
P.O. Box 30552
Nairobi 00100
Kenya
Tel: (254 2) 624 284
Fax: (254 2) 623 928
roainfo@unep.org

Placed on the Communication Initiative site November 15 1999
Last Updated November 27 2007

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