Capacity building of the Union of Journalists of South Sudan.pdf

elected every 3 years, and runs the day to day activities of UJOSS. The Union derives its income from
membership registration and subscriptions, and the development partners which fund its projects. In the long
term, it is expected that UJOSS’ publication, entitled ‘The People’s Voice’, will develop to become a newspaper
whose generated sales can support the Union’s sustainability and internal activities. UJOSS is therefore capable
of implementing this project as it is successfully implementing others at present.
10. SUSTAINABILITY:
This project will be sustainable in the long term after the IPDC assistance, because the journalists who have
undergone the training will consequently provide their colleagues within the various media houses with on-thejob
training, thus transmitting their skills and expertise to others, who will in turn train their colleagues.
11. FRAMEWORK OF MONITORING:
The project implementation will be monitored in partnership with Juba University.
12. EVALUATIONS CARRIED OUT:
The current UJOSS project on the production of ‘The people’s Voice’, an insert funded by the Media Diversity
Institute (MDI) is in progress and a needs assessment project is in the pipeline, to be funded by the Norwegian
People’s Aid. These two projects are currently in process. All are subject for monitoring and evaluation at the
end of the project.
13. FRAMEWORK OF BENEFICIARY AGENCY’S REPORTING:
UJOSS will adhere to IPDC’s reporting guidelines throughout this project.
C. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Previous IPDC support has been received by UJOSS (prior to Southern Sudan’s independence) in the following
areas:
• Conflict sensitive training
• Juba Support to Media Academy
• Capacity building programme in Juba University on short cause training for Journalists
Preparatory activities completed prior to the submission of the project to IPDC included an analysis by UJOSS
executive officials of their current priority needs, which ranked the training of trainers project as its top priority,
in light of the historic time in the nation’s history and the need and desire to offer high quality professional mass
media services that will lead to development of a democratic environment in Southern Sudan in which
journalists will be able to demonstrate their knowledge and skills freely.
D. BUDGET
BREAKDOWN OF IPDC CONTRIBUTION
(in US dollars)
2-day Training Seminars in the 10 States of South Sudan
Participants’ accommodation and meals (15 participants at $62 per person per day x 2
days x 10 seminars) 18 600
Trainers (2 trainers at $100 each per day of training + 1 day preparation) 6 000
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