Training Workshops

Economic Journalism
CIPE also conducted a variety of workshops to improve the quality of Economic Journalism in the country:

1. CIPE’s workshops on reporting on budget issues became popular during the past year. On April 25, 2007, in collaboration with the Sarhad Chamber of Commerce and Industry, CIPE Pakistan organized a workshop for economic and financial journalists on “Analyzing and Reporting the Budget”. This was the first such initiative in the NWFP. The workshop was attended by 24 working journalists from both print and broadcast media. While the workshop offered substantial information to the journalists on the budget process and how interesting stories emerge after the budget is presented in the National Assembly, it also provided an opportunity to the Sarhad Chamber of Commerce to understand how it can work closely with the media while preparing budget proposals for the government.

2. CIPE organized a capacity building workshop on May 05, 2008 for economic journalists based in interior of Sind Province. In addition to three from Larkana, Rohri, Shikarpur, a total of 26 journalists attended the workshop which was jointly facilitated by the Sukkur Press Club and Sukkur Chamber of Commerce & Industry. President Sukkur Press Club Khawaja Jawed appreciated CIPE’s initiative and said that it was first ever workshop on economic journalism organized in Sukkur region.

3. CIPE organized a two-day workshop on May 26 & May 27, 2008 for broadcast media economic journalists. The workshop was conducted by Terry FitzPatrick, a US journalist with 25 years of experience in broadcast journalism. Eighteen journalists, including three from rural Sind, two from Islamabad and one from Lahore also attended the workshop. This was the first initiative to engage broadcast media in economic journalism training program.

 

Business Associations Development
 CIPE provided technical assistance to chambers of commerce and associations through a series of training programs for the managing committees and staff throughout Pakistan. The topics covered included policy advocacy, financial management, marketing, and public relations. The workshops were conducted by international training experts, like Mr. Jack Cox from the US and Dr. Masood Butt from the UK.  

It was encouraging that the workshop was also attended by a sizeable number of women participants from various business associations. According to the participants of the workshops, there is a strong need to establish a business association’s forum incorporating the executive teams to strengthen their infrastructure and build their capacity to become more democratic and empowered through enhancement of skills, acquirement of knowledge and improvement of attitude. This can easily be facilitated through web-based communication. There was a general feeling that the participating organizations will be able for some financial contribution towards it. There is keen interest in securing further capacity building training and consultancy due to the lack of such opportunities in Pakistan to chambers and trade associations. As one participant said, “There has been no history of such training taking place in Pakistan”. 

To provide a ready reference guide, CIPE also distributed its handbook 21^st Century Business Associations to all chambers and trade associations across Pakistan.  More than 150 board and staff members benefited from CIPE’s technical assistance during the year. 

CIPE hosted a focus group to promote the concept of good corporate governance in business associations, which provided an opportunity for business associations to voice their issues and concerns as well as address possible solutions.  Participants, representing a wide cross-section of business associations, agreed on the need to follow good corporate governance principles in business associations in Pakistan.

Presentation on Business Plan Essentials for Business Associations Mr. Hammad Siddiqui Senior Program Manager CIPE conducted a workshop on “Business Plan Essentials for Business Associations.” please click here
Presentation on “Developing Membership Services & Understanding Change Management” Mr. Hammad Siddiqui Senior Program Manager CIPE conducted a workshop on “Developing Membership Services & Understanding Change Management". please click here

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