RPS is back in Tunisia supporting Libyan journalists

Posted: 16/05/2016

16 May 2016 - RPS Partnership

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This week we are in Mali, Senegal, Libya and Tunisia. Contact us if you need information on travel to any of these places.

We told you about phase one in January. Now we bring your phase two. RPS has returned to Tunisia to work with the Institute of War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) and Chiron Resources to finish training our Libyan team to become trainers so they can return to their home country to train local journalists.

IWPR continues to support Libya during this difficult period of political transition through programming that reaches a broad array of media and civil society sector actors, women and young people. 

Their ongoing projects include editorial skills training, security and first aid courses for frontline journalists, content production that gives communities a stronger voice in local issues, and mentoring university students who will become the first generation of post-revolution media professionals. This project is supported by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO)

Our Training of Trainers (TOT) has been adapted from the Level 3 in Education and Training certificate in the UK and tailored to fit the capabilities and time availalbe for the local trainers.

Last time, we taught them the roles and responsibilities of a trainer; something which ensures that they are inclusive in their training despite different cultural nuances. We taught learning styles and preferences as well as ensuring that they can include interesting and engaging teaching skills in their training sessions. Getting away from powerpoint and ensuring that other teaching techniques are included is always a challenge for new trainers.

This phase we are concentrating on more advanced teaching techniques. We are training them to run casualty scenarios and to make up role players to look like casualties; all using products they can find in their supermarkets in Tripoli. We are concentrating on running practical training. How to manage the class, how to keep control when everyone starts talking, how to manage those talkative students in their own classes.

They are now ready to run their own course tomorrow. Our RPS trainers are proud of the work they have been doing and how hard they are working. Well done everyone. Top trainers!!

RPS together with Chiron would like to thank our fantastic interpreters, without whom we could not have run the course so successfully.

Contact [email protected] for any queries about travel to the Middle East or North Africa. We provide advice, training and consultancy for any organisation working overseas in remote, difficult and hostile locations. Our experienced consultants can provide expert crisis management advice and training in the UK or overseas.

Photo: RPS consultants training trainers to work in Libya. Practical training on the beach. 

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