Climate Crisis Toolkit for media in Tanzania

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This Climate Crisis Toolkit provides journalists in Tanzania with expert advice, examples and tips to develop skills and the knowledge needed to expose and cover climate impact stories in a way that engages audiences.

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Welcome to the Climate Crisis Toolkit for media in Tanzania. 

The four sections within the Toolkit provide a practical framework designed to help you learn more about what climate change means, why it matters and how you can share that knowledge with your audiences. The Toolkit will enable you to develop storytelling skills, recognise and counter mis- and disinformation and also appreciate the steps you need to take in order to keep you, your colleagues and your sources safe.  
By the end of the toolkit, you will:

  • Be able to craft compelling climate stories through a range of storytelling techniques 
  • Recognise how journalists can tackle the spread of climate change mis- and disinformation and why it matters 
  • Know how to make the language of climate science accessible to audiences in Tanzania
  • Appreciate the importance of risk assessment to stay safe both physically and online 
  • Know more about the legal framework as it impacts journalists working in Tanzania
Sylivester Domasa is the digital media service manager at Tanzania Standard Newspapers (TSN). He is also a seasoned science and environmental journalist with 15+ years’ experience.
Evalilian Massawe is a radio presenter at Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation (TBC). She is a member of the Oxford Climate Journalism Network, a programme of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford in the UK.
Hassan Mhelela is the head of the Digital Content department at Azam Media Limited based in Dar es Salaam. He is also a media trainer and advises on ways to improve physical and digital safety.
Catherine Mackie is the training and communications editor for Thomson Foundation and the Toolkit editor. She’s a former BBC senior journalist and a recipient of a Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellowship at the University of Michigan. 
Ernest Sungura is the executive secretary of the Media Council of Tanzania (MCT) and also secretary general of the World Association of Press Councils. The MCT provided legal advice for the Toolkit under the leadership of Mr Sungura.

This Toolkit is designed by Thomson Foundation in partnership with the Tanzanian Media Foundation (TMF), Climate Action Network Tanzania (CAN TZ), Tanzania Development Information Organization (TADIO), the Network of Online Media Practitioners (JUMIKITA) and the Journalists’ Environmental Association of Tanzania (JET).  Legal advice provided by the Media Council of Tanzania. It is part of the Wajibika programme in Tanzania led by Oxford Policy Management (OPM) and funded by the UK's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and the Embassy of Switzerland in Tanzania. The programme is designed to strengthen climate journalism, enhance media capacity, and ensure sustained, high-quality coverage of climate change.

To successfully complete the course and get your certificate, you will need to achieve a 60% pass rate for the graded assessment.

Download the course as a PDF in English or Swahili