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The Federation of Media Employees Trade Union under the guidance of the International Federation of Journalists, organized the leadership training and completed the two-day workshops at the Thevni Holiday Resorts on 13& 14th October 2024 outside of Colombo, Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

The participants representing all provinces and mainstream media of the Island with 07 women journalists and 15 journalists participated in this Leadership Development Training workshop.<\/p>\n

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It covered the areas of what a union is, what the role of a union is, how to develop the union, the role of leadership, online organizing the union, etc.<\/p>\n

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\"\"The IFJ trained the trainers with TOT under this program. Ms.Gouri Bathan, Ms. Shareefa Tahir,\u00a0 Ms.Indira Nawagamuwa, Mr Rizwan Segue Mohideen, and Mr. Tharidu Uduwaragedara shared their experience and expertise knowledge to train the participants in this workshop.<\/p>\n

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Agenda as follow<\/p>\n

Day 01 –<\/p>\n

Introduction with Explaining Agenda (Indira)<\/p>\n

Icebreaker (Sherry- Indira)<\/p>\n

What is Leadership \u2013 40 minutes – Tharindu<\/p>\n

Leading unions and Members \u2013 30 minutes \u2013 Sherry<\/p>\n

Union Purpose and Leader Responsibilities \u2013 40 minutes – Sherry<\/p>\n

Prioritizing issues and Goals – Tharindu<\/p>\n

Developing Strong Leaders and Activists \u2013 Tharindu And Sherry<\/p>\n

Day 2 –<\/h4>\n

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Communications – 40<\/p>\n

Organizing online \u2013 90 minutes – Rizvan<\/p>\n

Collective Power and Action \u2013 40 minutes – Gowri<\/p>\n

Building and Sharing Responsibilities \u2013 60 minutes – Gowri<\/p>\n

Leadership Presentations – 90 minutes (With Rizvan and Gowri)<\/p>\n

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In addition, they discussed that they have to implement in the future the National Media Policy framework they did earlier. The purpose of the survey was to consult representatives from the media and journalists\u2019 community island-wide on recommendations for national media policy development<\/strong><\/p>\n

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