TEN JOURNALISTS TRAINED ON EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES

 Under TMF- lEAT extractive industries fellowship for journalists program 2014 10 fellows were trained on extractive industries

This fellowship program funded by Tanzania media fund aimed at increasing the capacity of 10 fellows on the extractive industry by equipping them with critical knowledge on mining industry and oil and gas exploration and production structure enabling them to deliver quality print articles and stimulate debates or reactions from the public and policy makers based on the published articles. this was a six months fellowship aimed at building capacity of 10 Journalists fellows on extractive industry during the six months of the fellowship, enabling them to generate quality print articles on extractive industry during the five weeks of fieldwork and 7 seven weeks after fieldwork as well as engendering change in the society through increased public awareness in well-informed debates between members of the public and policy makers during the fellowship program and soon thereafter.

The training was typically based on, the political economy of the extractive industries; the policy and legal regimes of extractive industries in Tanzania; institutions governing the extractive industries in Tanzania;

bilateral investments treaties and international investment dispute settlement mechanisms; the tax regime on the extractive industries in Tanzania; fiscal tools in international petroleum agreements (IPA), oil and gas exploration and production, natural resources governance reporting tools for journalists; environmental management policy and legal frameworks for extractive industries as well as cosmetics reforms in the mining industry in sub-Saharan African countries.

LEAT together with the donor TMF believes that Journalists trained under this fellowship program will accentuate on knowledge sharing to other journalists that have not benefited from this program and they will use the knowledge to deliver quality print articles and stimulate debates or reactions from the public and policy makers based on the published articles for the benefit of the Tanzania Community.