Uks Workshop for Media Practitioners
- Workshop for Media Practitioners
Project – Giving Voice to the Voiceless
Participants – 21
Trainer/Facilitator – Nabeela Aslam

Two workshops were held as ToT workshop for media practitioners from districts of D.I.Khan, Haripur and Charsadda on Gender Sensitive Reporting on Violence against Women. The journalists were from various local and national news media houses – both print and electronic. The objectives of the training include:
- Awareness-raising on VAW prevalence in the three districts
- Awareness-raising on Laws on VAW as per each province
- Analyses of VAW reporting trends
- Ethics and sensitive reporting on VAW
- Reporting Government’s Adherence to International Commitments (CEDAW, UDHR, SDGs etc.’)
- Reporting on existing legislation in each province
November 2015 – January 2016
Project – Gender Just Media Drive
Participants – 225
Trainer/Facilitator – Safi Ullah Gul (Peshawar), Nabeela Aslam (Islamabad), Kaleem Ullah Baloch (Turbat), Tariq Hussain (Gilgit Baltistan), Imrana Komal (Multan), Zia Ullah Hamdard (Mardan), Jibran Zaib (Hyderabad), Kiran Qasim (Gilgit Baltistan), Nasir Mehmood (Karachi), Shahzad Baloch (Quetta)

The ten trained journalists from each province were to train their colleagues and media practitioners – at least 25 – at their local press clubs. Uks engaged journalists and media organizations through trainings focused on understanding and utilizing a gender-sensitive code of ethics. Uks aimed to promote more gender-sensitive content and greater accountability within the media.
Peshawar (21 participants) – 22nd January, 2016
Islamabad (14 participants) – 16th January, 2016
Turbat (23 participants) – 10th January, 2016
Gilgit Baltistan (26 participants) – 19th December, 2015
Multan (22 participants) – 18th December, 2015
Mardan (22 participants) – 17th December, 2015
Hyderabad (17 participants) – 13th December, 2015
Gilgit Baltistan (24 participants) – 11th December, 2015
Karachi (36 participants) – 1st December, 2015
Quetta (35 participants) – 28th November, 2015
28th October, 2015
Project – Gender Just Media Drive
Participants – 10
Trainer/Facilitator – Nabeela Alsam, Saniya Jafree, Shaista Yasmeen, Shujaat Ali

31-31st March, 2015
Project – Energy for All
Participants – 30
Trainer/Facilitator – Afia Salam

The two-day media workshop was organized by Uks Research Centre as part of the project Energy for People. To further its role as a change-maker, Uks Research Centre, initiated this project to impart a better understanding of energy issues confronting Pakistan, and develop a cadre of specialist journalist producing quality content.
This workshop was held in collaboration with Shell Pakistan, the need for which was reinforced after content monitoring and analysis carried out by the Uks team. This analysis illustrated that media coverage of energy issues often lacks understanding of the current situation, and is mostly focused on events rather than issues.
Despite the fact that Pakistan is faced with an acute energy crisis, the very vibrant media is not able to bring out issues and make the connection between energy and economic growth as well as the accoutrements that go with comfortable living. Only when the media starts to look at energy issues beyond the paradigm of political blame-games and point scoring on who failed and why, will it can start to focus on the fact that Pakistan has access to multiple sources of energy and needs to plan for a sustainable energy future
The media can actually highlight the existing potentials to explore these forms of energy, and create awareness among people with care and sensitivity – to enable them to understand the most important issues in the energy sector and should report/produce content that would benefit the public by raising their level of awareness of how to handle this energy crisis, advocate for long-term positive change and the political will to do so.
2013
Project – More Women in Media
Trainer/Facilitator – Tasneem Ahmar

Abbottabad (30 participants) – 1-2 Mar 2013
Islamabad, Peshawar, Karachi, Multan and Quetta
4-6th February, 2013
Project – Radio for Peace Building: A Common Ground Approach
Participants – 30
Trainer/Facilitator – Tasneem Ahmar, Rafia Arshad

September – December, 2012
Project – Powerful Women, Powerful Nation
Participants – 104
Trainer/Facilitator – Tasneem Ahmar, Hammad Siddiqui

Lahore (20 participants) – 13-14th December, 2012
Peshawar (21 participants) – 11-12th October, 2012
Multan (15 participants) – 1-2nd October, 2012
Islamabad (20 participants) – 24-25th September, 2012
Karachi (28 participants) – 14-15th September, 2012
May – September, 2012
Project – More Women in Media
Participants – 139
Trainer/Facilitator – Tasneem Ahmar

Hyderabad (28 participants) – 8-9th September, 2012
Multan (26 participants) – 3-4th September, 2012
Islamabad (29 participants) – 216-17th July, 2012
Quetta (30 participants) – 12-13th June, 2012
Peshawar (26 participants) – 2-3 May, 2012
July-December, 2009

The project took up the issue of Freedom to Access Information as one of the prerequisites for democratic governments for transparent and smooth governance
Through its tools of media mapping, monitoring the initiative aimed at highlighting how all information belonging to the public domain, including non-classified information from government, authorities and other national and federal bodies should be easily accessible to allow citizens to actively participate in the democratic process.
November 18, 2007
Project – Building the capacity of journalists on effective dialogue and promoting positive coverage of women in media
Participants – Ms. Rafia Arshad, Freelance Radio Producer
Ms. Aisha Amir, Freelance Radio Producer
Ms. Maria Mushtaq, Freelance Radio Producer
Ms. Rukhsana Mussarat, Senior Radio Producer, Uks
Ms. Saadia Haq, Consultant Radio producer, Uks
Trainer/Facilitator – Ms. Manisha Aryal, Internews Ms. Tasneem Ahmar, Director, Uks

These radio programs aim to strengthen the awareness, in Pakistan, of constraints in women’s development and to promote empowerment
8th November, 2007

Project – Promoting Issue-bases Radio Journalism on women’s Political Empowerment
Participants – six producers-two each from Rawalpindi, Hasanabdal and Bahawalpur
Trainer/Facilitator –
Ms. Tasneem Ahmar, Director and Executive producer- Uks
Mr. Wussatullah Khan, Senior producer- BBC Urdu Service
Mr. Asif Farouqi, Correspondent – BBC Urdu Service
Ms. Rukhsana Mussarat, Senior Radio Producer – Uks
Ms. Saadia Haq, Radio Producer and project coordinator – Uks
The five-day training on radio journalism conducted by Uks Research Centre – an Islamabad-based NGO productively concluded on 8th November 2007. The training was conducted as part of Uks’ continued effort to improve journalistic standards, promote issue-based programming and investigative journalism in the Pakistani media.
This training programme was organized to enable a team radio producers of to produce a ten-part radio series called Hamari Taraqi, Hamari Awaz (Our Development, Our Voice) which will be aired through nationwide FM channels.
Each trainee team comprised one male and one female. Ms. Saira Noreen and Mr. Adeel Javed from Campus Radio, Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Mr. Shakeel Awan – lecturer, Allama Iqbal Open University and Ms. Marium Kiani – reporter, Dawn from the Islamabad/Rawalpindi region and Ms. Shehla Nazmeen, Presenter and Mr. Shoukat Ali, Program Manager / Producer from Sunrise FM 97 Hassanabdal attended the training
16th October 2006
Project – Aurat, Ghairat aur Qatl
Participants – 5-10 amateur radio producers
Trainer/Facilitator – Wuss’atullah Khan, BBC

January – December, 2006

February – March, 2006

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April 1999

2-3rd November, 1998
Project – Sensitizing Media on Issues of HIV and AIDS
This was among the ground-breaking training workshops for media in Pakistan on a tabooed and sensitive issue. Uks trained journalists to report about HIV and AIDS in a well-informed manner. In addition to raising their awareness on its medical and physiological effects, the training sensitised journalists to the social impact of unethical reporting on this issue. The training also included meeting and talking to PLWHAs in order to bust myths about the disease being contagious etc.
21st September, 1998 (Karachi) 10th September, 1998 (Islamabad)
High Commission
Project -Impact of newspaper language and reporting on women’s development and status