Africa-Press – Angola. The Support Project for Civil Society and Local Administration in Angola (PASCAL) opened, this Monday, in Luanda, a training course on communication for decentralization and participatory governance, aimed at staff from the media and influencers fingerprints.
The training action, lasting three days, is funded by the European Union and aims to reinforce the participants’ knowledge and skills to make journalistic coverage of issues related to decentralization, participatory governance, gender equality and inclusion more effective.
The meeting, which brings together professionals from various media outlets in the provinces of Luanda, Malanje, Benguela, Huambo and Huíla, where PASCAL operates, is part of the Angolan government’s policies, embodied in the consolidation of civil society, in the processes of decentralization and local development.
For the project director, Pablo Lopez, what is intended is to be able to take to all corners of the country, necessary information on the process of decentralization and participatory governance, in order to support civil society and local administrations.
For Pablo Lopez, the role of journalists is fundamental, since they have the capacity to transmit information in a transparent, effective and efficient way, going from an actor in the process of education on decentralization and participatory governance, where they are approached the rights and duties of civil society.
In this sense, the official also pointed out that one of the biggest difficulties they have encountered in the development of their activities is the weak trust between local administrations and civil society, which in this case PASCAL intends to be the link between the two sectors.
“The project includes three components, one of which is reserved, to work with communication, information and awareness, thus making it necessary to empower professionals in the field of communication to be able to take information to the level of provinces, municipalities, communes and Quimbos”, he explained.
In turn, the representative of the European Union in Angola, Jeannette Seppen, referred that PASCAL intends to act in the participatory governance process, in 25 municipalities of the five provinces already mentioned, in a period of four years, where it will support civil society as actors in development and democratic governance.
The Support Project for Civil Society and Local Administration in Angola (PASCAL) is based on three fundamental pillars, namely contributing to the improvement of the legislative and regulatory framework and supporting municipal administrations, as well as public institutions.
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