As this year’s secretariat for the Zambia World Press Freedom Day, PSAf – through the Media Development and ICTs programme’s pilot project, the Pan-African radio Platform – played a key role in bringing together the different stakeholders to ensure that all preparations for the May 3 event went well.

On April 24th 2012, PSAf was among stakeholders in climate change, environment and natural resources management in Zambia that met to define national priorities for climate change resilience, disaster risk reduction and low emission development for the country. The meeting also presented an opportunity for stakeholders to discuss and build consensus on issues to take to the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio+20, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from 13 to 22 June 2012 in line with the African position.

Following PSAf’s successful completion of the development of a communication strategy for the National Assembly of Zambia (NAZ), different stakeholders have started putting their heads together to share ideas on how they can take Parliament closer to the people. 

Representatives of community media institutions across Zambia have expressed great commitment to work with PSAf in implementing the Pan African Radio Platform (PARP) project which is currently underway.

A start up meeting for the project was held in April, bringing together senior officials from community and mainstream radio stations from select regions of the country. The meeting was the first step towards the formalization of project implementation modalities with the different radio stations.

Representatives of community media institutions across Zambia have expressed great commitment to work with PSAf in implementing the Pan African Radio Platform (PARP) project which is currently underway.

A start up meeting for the project was held in April, bringing together senior officials from community and mainstream radio stations from across the country. The meeting was the first step towards the formalization of project implementation modalities with the different radio stations.

On 24 April, PSAf held a public policy training workshop for media and civil society grantees under the Atwaambe project in Zambia following to cover capacity gaps that had the potential of slowing progress in the project’s implementation.

Representatives of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) and PSAf will early next month hold a meeting to exchange ideas and views on the implementation of the Communicating HIV Prevention in Southern Africa project.