The Schedule
8 Sessions distributed over 3 days.
9:00 - 9:30
INTRODUCTION OF THE AFRODAD MEDIA INITIATIVE (AFROMedI) & PARTICIPANTS
This session will help participants understand AFRODAD’s mandate, appreciate the AFROMEDI journey and objectives, get to know about the Media Debt Network Africa (M-DNA) and get to know each other.
Fidélité Nshimiyimana
Campaigns & Communication Manager, AFRODAD
9:35 – 11:00
OPENING SPEECHES:
Fidélité Nshimiyimana
Campaigns & Communication Manager - AFRODAD.
Hon. Adama Coulibaly
Minister of Economy and Finance, The Republic of Côte d'Ivoire.
Hon. Amadou Coulibaly
Minister of Economy and Finance, The Republic of Côte d'Ivoire.
Jean Claude
The President of the National Union of Journalists of Côte d'Ivoire (UNJCI).
Anne-Marie Dias Borges
Media Specialist & Former Senior Broadcast Journalist
11:05 – 11:55
Q&A SESSION
Anne-Marie Dias Borges
Media Specialist & Former Senior Broadcast Journalist
12:00 – 12:55
PRESS CONFERENCE:
Focus on the Cote d’Ivoire context but extend to other African countries. The discussion will also delve into how the two Ministers, speaking on the government’s behalf, would like journalists to tell the African story on public debt.
Victoria Rubadiri
Journalist and TV presenter at Citizen TV, Winner of BBC World News' 2020 Komla Dumor Award.
13:00– 14:00
Lunch Break
14:05 – 14:50
SUSTAINABLE DEBT MANAGEMENT
This session will discuss Africa’s current public debt situation and share Pan-African-led solutions to Africa’s debt crisis including the need to demand a reform of the global debt architecture, and how African journalists can be champions of leading the change, holding responsible institutions accountable and setting the agenda for Africa Rule Maker and not Rule Taker.
Shem Joshua
Policy Analyst & Advocacy Officer, Sovereign Debt Management Portfolio, AFRODAD
14:55 - 15:45
THE LEGAL FOUNDATIONS OF DEBT
This session will help journalists understand the complexities within the legal foundations of debt and help them appreciate the political-economic context of debt contraction in Africa and the importance of understanding the structural and systemic causes of debt in Africa. The session will conclude by highlighting how that knowledge can guide journalists as they tell the story of public debt.
Dr. Lyla Latif
Advocate, Commissioner for Oaths, Notary Public
15:55 - 16:10
A POEM
African people and their daily struggles.
Sephora Zegui
Journalist Reporter, Côte d'Ivoire
16:15 – 16:35
Coffee Break
16:35 - 17:00
GROUP WORK - DISCUSSIONS ON THE MEDIA DEBT TOOLKIT (MDT)
This session will give journalists the platform to discuss the MDT that AFRODAD intends to develop. They propose its content, structure, and dissemination plan.
9:00 - 9:15
DAY 1 RECAP
This session will help participants understand AFRODAD’s mandate, appreciate the AFROMEDI journey and objectives, get to know about the Media Debt Network Africa (M-DNA) and get to know each other.
Berta Madime
Senior Journalist,
Radio Mozambique
9:20 – 9:40
Explainer video
AFRODAD will present a video explainer on past and present debt relief initiatives in Africa, their effectiveness or lack of, and AFRODAD’s alternative proposals to better debt relief initiatives where Africa is the rule maker and not the rule taker.
AFRODAD
9:45 - 10:35
ANALYSIS OF THE ALLOCATION AND USAGE OF SPECIAL DRAWING RIGHTS (SDRS) IN AFRICA
The session will unpack and analyse the allocation and usage of Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) in Africa and provide feminist alternatives for rechannelling SDRs to advance the Agenda 2063 and the fifth Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 5) to promote equitable economic rights for African women and girls.
Lurit Yugusuk
Economic Justice & Rights,
FEMNET
10:40 - 11:00
Coffee Break
11:05 – 12:00
HUMANISING REPORTING ON PUBLIC DEBT
This session will practically show the link between public debt and the people. It will demonstrate how people may not care about the borrowed billions and trillions because the majority don't even understand those figures. How then do journalists give a human face to their stories? How do they link those stories to unsustainable public debt?
Question & Answer
Victoria Rubadiri
Journalist and TV presenter at Citizen TV, Winner of BBC World News' 2020 Komla Dumor Award.
12:05 –12:55
PROMOTE TRANSPARENCY, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND GOOD GOVERNANCE IN DEVELOPMENT FINANCE WITH INSIGHTS FROM THE AFRICAN BORROWING CHARTER AND HARARE DECLARATION
This session will focus on how the African media community can promote transparency, accountability, and good governance in development finance with Insights from the African Borrowing Charter and Harare Declaration. Group discussions and presentations following the presentation will highlight other ideas that take into consideration different contexts in which journalists operate from.
Elie Kabore
Investigative Reporter, Burkina Faso
Fidélité Nshimiyimana
Campaigns & Communication Manager, AFRODAD
13:00– 14:00
Lunch Break
14:05 - 15:15
PROMOTE TRANSPARENCY, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND GOOD GOVERNANCE IN DEVELOPMENT FINANCE WITH INSIGHTS FROM THE AFRICAN BORROWING CHARTER AND HARARE DECLARATION
This session will focus on how the African media community can promote transparency, accountability, and good governance in development finance with Insights from the African Borrowing Charter and Harare Declaration. Group discussions and presentations following the presentation will highlight other ideas that take into consideration different contexts in which journalists operate from.
Adwoa Adobea-Owusu
Investigative Reporter, The Fourth Estate
Discussants:
Nilza Gune Massingue
Jornalista, Jornal Notícias
Mozambique
Josephine Banduhu
Radio Télévision Nationale Congolaise DRC
Muluken Yewondwossen
Ethiopia
Miriam Mangwaya
NewsDay & the Standard
Zimbabwe
William Madouk Ngarang
Citizen Daily,
South Sudan
Etonam Sossou
Bi-hebdomadaire l’Union
Togo
15:20- 15:45
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:55
THE PLACE OF MEDIA IN THE AFRICAN DEBT CAMPAIGN - STOP THE BLEEDING.
This session will focus on how the African media community can promote transparency, accountability, and good governance in development finance with Insights from the African Borrowing Charter and Harare Declaration. Group discussions and presentations following the presentation will highlight other ideas that take into consideration different contexts in which journalists operate from.
Fidélité Nshimiyimana
Campaigns & Communication Manager, AFRODAD
Lurit Yugusuk
Economic Justice & Rights, FEMNET
17:00 – 17:55
GROUP WORK - DISCUSSIONS ON THE MEDIA DEBT TOOLKIT (MDT)
This session will give journalists the platform to discuss the MDT that AFRODAD intends to develop. They propose its content, structure, and dissemination plan.
Group work
9:00 – 10:00
FEEDBACK & RECAP SESSION
Breakout sessions followed by a plenary session. (Reflections and verbal feedback about the conference, lessons learned, and way forward.)
Howard Mwangi
Campaigns & Communication Officer,
AFRODAD
10:05 -11:00
AWARDING CERTIFICATES
Jean-Claude
President, National Union of Journalists of Côte d'Ivoire (UNJCI)
Fidélité Nshimiyimana
Campaigns & Communication Manager, AFRODAD
Catherine Mithia
Policy and Partnerships Assistant, AFRODAD
11:05 - 11: 15
VOTE OF THANKS
Breakout sessions followed by a plenary session. (Reflections and verbal feedback about the conference, lessons learned, and way forward.)
Cynthia Muriki
Campaigns & Communication Intern, AFRODAD
11:20 – 11:55
CLOSING REMARKS
Jean-Claude
President, National Union of Journalists of Côte d'Ivoire (UNJCI)
Fidélité Nshimiyimana
Campaigns & Communication Manager, AFRODAD
Jean-Claude
President, National Union of Journalists of Côte d'Ivoire (UNJCI)
Fidélité Nshimiyimana
Campaigns & Communication Manager, AFRODAD