Two-day Gender Equality Seminar, Bangalore

<font size="2">EU-India- Building Paths to Equality in Journalism </font>

<font size="2">Two-day Gender Equality Seminar
Hotel Vijay Residency, Bangalore</font>

<font size="2">4-5 August, 2006</font>

AGENDA

4 August, 2006

Opening Speech: Ms Mumtaz Begum, Mayor of Bangalore

Session 1

9.00 - 9.30 Introductions, expectations and icebreaker

(Pamela Morinière, IFJ; BNEU President; Parul Sharma, AINEF)

Session 2

9.30 - 10.30 Introducing the issue

(Michelle Stanistreet, NUJ, UK)

10.30 - 11.00 Break

Session 3

11.00 - 11.30 The IFJ's global campaign for Women in the Media

(Pamela Morinière, IFJ)

Session 4

11.30 - 12.30 Women in the Media: Sharing our experience

(Annegret Witt Barthel, DJV, Germany)

12.30 - 1.30 Lunch

Session 5

1.30 - 2.15 Skills for Women in Media Unions

Part I: Effective Communication

(Abha Sharma, Rajasthan Newspaper Employees Federation, Jaipur)

Session 6

2.15 - 3.15 Group Work: Prioritising the issues

(Parul Sharma, AINEF)

3.15 - 3.45 Break

3.45 - 4.45 Group Work: Prioritising the issues - report back

(Parul Sharma)

Session 7

4.45 - 5.00 Recap, check expectations, agenda for tomorrow and wrap up

(Pamela Morinière, Parul Sharma)

5 August, 2006

9.00 - 9.30 Recap yesterday, agenda for today, icebreaker

(Pamela Moriniere, Parul Sharma)

Session 8

9.30 - 10.30 Guest speaker 

 Ammu Joseph, Independent journalist and media-watcher based in Bangalore and a founder-member of the Network of Women in Media, India

10.30 - 11.00 Break

Session 9

11.00 - 11.50 Skills for Women in Media Unions

Part 2 Campaigning (Annegret Witt Barthel)

Session 10

11.50 - 12.30 Building activists

(Rohini Mundaje and K.R. Mangala, BNEU)

12.30 - 1.30 Lunch

Session 11

1.30 - 3.00 Group work: Devising a campaign

(Michelle Stanistreet)

3.00 - 3.30 Break

3.30 - 4.30 Group work continued: Devising a campaign - report back

Session 12

4.30 - 5.00 Final comments, evaluations

(Pamela Morinière/ Parul Sharma)


With the financial support of the European Union