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n 2013, some of the key ways MISA built media capacity around this issue and strived to give
children a voice in southern African media included the following.

Training workshops for
journalists
MISA trained print and broadcast journalists from
both private and State-owned media houses in Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia and
Zimbabwe to increase their knowledge and understanding of child rights and how to report on these
issues.

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Media Monitoring
Chapter offices in Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi,
Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe monitored their
countries’ major daily and weekly news publications to study and document how the media in
those countries interacts with children’s issues.

Editors’ meetings
MISA held local and regional meetings of editors
to discuss and gain their cooperation on proposed
changes to in-house editorial guidelines on reporting on children’s rights and issues. It was the first
time editors had come together under the project to
network and share their experiences on children’s
reporting in their respective countries.

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