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As part of efforts to build the capacity of the media to foster credible elections, the International Press Centre (IPC), Lagos is organizing a two-day media workshop for journalists in the south west on Wednesday, September 17 and Thursday, September 18, 2014.

The workshop with the theme “Professional, conflict sensitive, public interest and gender-supportive reporting of 2015 elections” is under the project “Media Capacity Building, Mentoring and Monitoring for Conflict-Sensitive, Public-Issue and ICT-Driven Reporting of 2015 Elections” supported by the Democratic Governance for Development Programme of the UNDP and its international partners including the EU.

Director of IPC, Mr. Lanre Arogundade, said the specific objective of the workshop is to ensure professional, conflict sensitive, public interest and gender-supportive reporting of the elections.

According to the IPC Director, participants at the workshop will include thirty middle and senior career female and male journalists from the print and broadcast media in the six south-western states of Lagos, Ogun, Osun, Ondo, Ekiti and Oyo.

He added that the workshop would feature presentations and discussions on pitched political and election related story ideas written by the participants which would be discussed during the story clinic and facilitated by the resource persons on the last day of the workshop.