UNESCO. General Conference; 36th; 36 C/5: volume 1: Draft ...

Expected result 5: Capacities of media training and journalism educational
institutions strengthened to reach the established criteria of excellence
in training as regards journalists’ investigative skills and gender equality
perspectives in media
Performance indicators
▪ Number of countries that improved the
journalism education on the basis of the
UNESCO Model Curricula for Journalism
Education and the number of training
institutions that applied the UNESCO-developed
criteria for institutional excellence
Benchmarks
– at least 30 countries with improved journalism
education based on UNESCO Model
Journalism Curricula and 15 regional training
institutions that adapted criteria for excellence
▪ Number of journalism education institutions
that introduced quality science journalism based
on UNESCO resource guide, and increase in the
number of journalists reporting on sustainable
development issues with scientific perspectives
– at least 15-20 journalism education institutions
that adapted UNESCO resource guide on
science journalism
– at least 100-150 working journalists (of which
at least 50% are women) in 30 countries using
the UNESCO science reporting resources in
water, bio-diversity, energy, climate change,
oceanographic impacts, desertification, etc.
Expected result 6: Media and Information Literacy (MIL) enhanced to enable
citizens to make full use of their rights to freedom of expression and the right to
information, taking into account the access and needs of both women and men
Performance indicators
▪ Number of teacher training institutions that
have integrated media and information literacy
into teacher training and the established
international partnerships to foster Media and
Information Literacy
Benchmarks
– at least 15 national teacher training curricula
integrating media and information literacy
– at least 3 international partnerships established
to foster Media and Information Literacy
▪ Number of citizens’ media groups and UNESCO
Chairs that advocated media and information
literacy as way to increase the quality of media
– at least 12 citizens’ media groups/ UNESCO
Chairs supported to foster media and
information literacy in developing countries
and countries in transition
▪ Number of public service broadcasters that
applied standards for user-generated content
– at least 50 public service broadcasters that
applied UNESCO-developed guidelines on
user-generated content
179 36 C/5 – Major Programme V