0930 hrs. – 1000 hrs

Registration

1000 hrs – 1130 hrs

·         Orientation – Rina Saeed Khan (Journalist and Facilitator)

·         Welcome & Setting the agenda – Ali Tauqeer Sheikh (CEO of LEAD-Pakistan) & LEAD Documentary

·         Welcome by Federal Minister for the Environment – Hameed Ullah Jan Afridi

·         Introductions of participants - Alex Kirby (former senior BBC environment correspondent)/Joydeep Gupta (senior Indian climate change journalist)

1130 hrs. – 1200 hrs

Tea Break and Group Photograph

1200 hrs. – 1300 hrs.

‘Climate Change and Hydro-Politics in the Indus Basin’ by Dr Danish Mustafa (Professor of geography and specialist in water issues, Kings College in London)

1300 hrs. – 1400 hrs.

Lunch Break

1400 hrs. – 1600 hrs

- Refresher on the Science of Climate Change – Alex Kirby

- What happened in Copenhagen relating to Pakistan and South Asian region – (Jawed Ali Khan, Director General, Environment, Ministry of Environment)

- Framing the Climate Change Debate – Joydeep Gupta

- Asian impacts on water – (Dr Ghazanfar Ali, Head of Glaciology and Water Resources, Global Change Impact Study Centre (GCISC), Islamabad)

1600 hrs – 1630 hrs

Tea Break

1630 hrs. – 1730 hrs

‘Climate Change and Cross-Boundary water issues’ by Arshad Abbasi (Senior researcher and water specialist, consultant to UNDP and Ministry of Water and Power)

0930 hrs - 1030 hrs.

Climate change effects on Himalayan glaciers by

Amber Masood (UNDP)

1030 hrs– 11 30 hrs

Climate change effects in Indus Delta and Wetlands by

Ahmed Khan, Regional Programme Manager, WWF-Pakistan’s Wetlands Project and Richard Garstang, head of the Wetlands Project

1130 hrs– 1200 hrs

Tea Break

1200 hrs- 1330 hrs.

 Framing the Story: Key Reporting/documenting Tips – Alex Kirby, Joydeep Gupta, Huma Beg, Rina Saeed Khan, Danish Mustafa, Afia Salam

Breakout groups separate and discuss key reporting techniques:

·         story angles and reliability of different types of sources

• pitching stories successfully at editorial meetings

• translating jargon and explaining difficult science and uncertainty

• improving appeal of stories through style

• brainstorming about how to cover a particular story; we tell them the top line and ask them how they would go about doing it, given the constraints of their medium

• examples of stories that illustrate techniques which have worked

Following the discussions, each breakout group will report back, supplemented by training segments on key reporting techniques

1330 hrs- 1430 hrs.

Lunch Break

1430 hrs- 1500 hrs

Water issues from Kashmiri perspective

Reporting on cross border water issues by Athar Parvaiz Bhatt, journalist from Srinagar

1500 hrs– 1530 hrs

Tea Break

1530 hrs– 1700 hrs

‘Climate Change and Food Security – A media perspective’ by Shafqat Munir (Secretary General Asia Media Forum)

‘Environment and Development: Population, Environment and Development’ by Dr Nizamuddin (Vice Chancellor, University of Gujrat; Director Centre for Population, Environment and urban studies, University of Gujrat)

1700 hrs – 17.30 hrs

Open discussion by all participants on problems and prospects of reporting on water/food issues followed by written feedback plus evaluations (Alex, Joydeep)

17.30 hrs –

18.30 hrs

Discussion on a proposed climate change media network between Pakistani and Indian journalists and preparation and exploring funding opportunities for COP 16 to be held in Mexico in 2010  (Joydeep, Alex, Afia Salam and Rina Saeed Khan)