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Media organizations to get training for 2018 elections

January 11, 2018 4:39 pm

The International Foundation for the Electoral Systems will provide training for media organizations on how to report during the general elections.

Elections Supervisor Mohammed Saneem says the training will be conducted from the 20th to the 22nd of next month.

He says it will be co-founded and hosted by the Media Industry Development Authority and the Elections Office.

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“We will have facilitators from New York Times as well as IFES itself .We are currently in talks with MIDA so that we can organize this .We also have Edwin Nand from the Fijian Elections Office who will be co facilitating the workshop.”

IFES is a non-profit organization that provides assistance and support for elections in new and emerging democracies.