Training Nepalese Journalists

The Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy (IMTD) would like to thank you for your interest in and support for providing conflict sensitive reporting training to local Nepalese journalists. Nepal needs journalists who can act as a moderating influence against divided and partisan politics and who can promote the voices of the vulnerable. With your support, we can help build the skills of local journalists to support a more peaceful Nepal.

In the past three months, we have been busy getting this project off the ground. We are consulting with an evaluation expert, working with our local partners, and exploring various fundraising options to meet our expected $40,000-$50,000 budget needs.

We are working with Dr. Tatsushi Arai, an associate professor of conflict resolution at SIT Graduate Institute, to develop a scale to evaluate participants’ progress throughout their training.

We have also been working with our local partners in Nepal - the Institute for Conflict Management, Peace and Development (ICPD) and the Collective Campaign for Peace (COCAP) - in preparation for the training workshops.

IMTD is seeking funding from a number of grant-making organizations. We recently submitted letters of inquiry to the Ford Foundation and to the Journalists and Writers Foundation (JWF) and are waiting to receive a response. We also submitted a grant proposal to the National Endowment for Democracy (NED).

We are continually looking for new ways to raise funds for this project. To that end, we recently held a fundraising dinner in Washington, D.C. that raised $800. We are also investigating to possibility of attending various Asian festivals along the East Coast this spring and summer to attract donors to the project.

Once again, we are grateful for your support through Global Giving and look forward to keeping you informed as the project progresses.