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Media Training Workshop on Disaster Reporting held
Focus on enhancing safer reconstruction in Post Gorkha Earthquake situation
With a sole objective to boost media personnel’s understanding on key issues of Disaster Risk Management (DRM), National Society for Earthquake Technology-Nepal (NSET) with support from USAID/OFDA successfully accomplished a Media Training Workshop on Disaster Reporting in Park Village Hotel, Budhanilkantha, Kathmandu. The residential workshop during 9-11 December 2015 provided ample opportunities for interactions and sharing among various media houses, DRM experts and key journalists as well as leading media professionals in the country. Keeping the major DRM issues in mind, workshop process intended to induce a more in-depth interaction focusing on key issues of safer reconstruction after Gorkha Earthquake and also including ongoing awareness efforts, information reporting strategies, information & knowledge sharing and lessons learned. The activity was organized under the USAID/OFDA funded program “Public Private Partnership for Earthquake Risk Management (3PERM).
Senior Media Expert and Professor Rama Krishna Regmee, in his presentation, highlighted on emerging techniques of disaster journalism. Since Nepal is vulnerable to many kind of natural disasters, Mr. Regmee also urged media houses of Nepal to appoint some disaster reporting journalists. Meanwhile, Media Expert Shree Ram Singh Basnet emphasized the crucial role of newsroom reporter during disaster situations. He said that the newsroom reporters should have in-depth knowledge about various kind of disasters and their probable outcomes. Laxman Humagain, General Manager of Nepal Television shared his insights on Evacuation ideas for mediahouses. He honestly accepted that majority of media houses in Nepal have no evacuation plan or a backup plan to recover after a catastrophic earthquake or a major natural disaster of such intensity.
Altogether 25 journalists and media personnel from TV, Radio, Print and Online media and also from News Agencies actively participated in the process, mainly engaged in group works on themes of enhancing media roles in disaster emergencies. Media role has been acknowledged as one key element to further safer and better reconstruction in Post-Gorkha Earthquake situations in Nepal.
Earlier, conveying ground setting ideas, Mr. Amod Mani Dixit, Executive Director of NSET briefed on general hazards situation of Nepal and highlighted the roles media could and should take in risk reduction to reconstruction phases of disaster cycle. Dr. Ramesh Guragain, Deputy Executive Director of NSET, presented in detail about the ongoing reconstruction efforts in Nepal after the Gorkha Earthquake. Bijay Krishna Upadhyay, Director of CBDRM Division at NSET, shared his expertise on Earthquake Resistant Construction Technologies and Practices in Nepal. While, Mr. Khadga Sen Oli, Advocacy & Outreach Manager at NSET, presented on various aspects of Risk Communication.
