practically all the leaders of political parties, NGOs, the clergy and journalists. 3. Good governance programme Like the Face the media programmes the Good governance Radio programmes are meant to make those that govern accountable to the governed. These programmes are also aired on 10 community and commercial Radio Stations in Zambia and are sponsored by Ireland Aid. 4. Independent Media Council Under the Independent Media Council so far eight complaints have been brought before the council. Three of them have so far been successfully dealt with. They included complaints from two cabinet ministers. Under the same umbrella ZIMA is running a television chart show called the “Media and the Public”. This is a Phone-in programme and has proved to be very popular easily making it one of the flagships of ZIMA. The Zambia Independent Media Association (ZIMA) has been conducting courses on how to improve journalistic skills among media practitioners without looking at the business side of the media industry. This “negligence” may have contributed to the closure of many publications. To assist the media ZIMA organised for the first time a workshop on accounting and management. In order for maximum impact those in finance were joined by their who most of them have no or little idea of finance matters on managers how to run media as a business. Participants drawn from 17 institutional members of ZIMA were in attendance at the workshop. The main purpose of which was to equip participants with accounting and management skills. The workshop was held for three days starting February 24 to 26, 2003 and was held at Ndeke hotel in Lusaka. All together 30 people from institutions participated in the workshop. MISA Zimbabwe organised a training workshop on Peace Reporting in Kadoma on 4-5 October, 2002. 30 journalists mostly from small and community publications attended the workshop that was conducted by local facilitators. Another training workshop organised by MISA Zimbabwe for advocacy committee members in Kariba was held on 20 – 22 September. The training programme focused on how they could go about the business of mobilizing communities so that issues of the media, access to information and freedom of expression are publicised and addressed. The committees were also taken on their paces on what advocacy is all about. MISA offers a scholarship exchange programme that is facilitated at the Regional Secretariat I Windhoek. The programme assists 33