MISA in conjunction with the Public Section Department of the US Embassy in Gaborone ran a workshop on Photography with the help of Professor Keith Kenney, a renowned photographer from USA who shared with participants on how they could sell their works internationally and challenged them to change perceptions on the way they captured pictures currently. The workshop helped to build and enhance skills among photographers in Botswana and many of those who attended were very excited by their enhanced photojournalistic skills and sharing of professional view points. In Lesotho MISA held media training during the first week of October 07, sponsored by UNICEF, on media sensitization on children’s legislation in the country concentrating on how to report issues affecting children in the media. This was partly necessitated by a public outcry against inadequate portrayal of minors in the local media, particularly the print media. Children are a sub-group of the society whose rights are grossly violated either by omission or commission. In Mozambique 30 media practitioners from all the country’s provinces in May 2006 attended a course on economic journalism, in partnership with the National Union of Journalists (SNJ) and ISCTEM (Mozambique Science and Technology College) and the Mercantile Bank. In partnership with the London based PANOS Institute, MISA-Mozambique hosted from 28th November to 2nd December 2006 a training seminar on interview methodologies on verbal witnesses focusing questions of the poverty. The training course gathered a number of journalists and ONG’s involved in the poverty alleviation in Mozambique The MISA chapter in Swaziland held three training workshops for journalists. From 7 – 14 August 2006 MISA Swaziland in partnership with the Institute for the Advancement of Journalism, IAJ facilitated two workshops for 15 Swazi journalists in South Africa. The journalists, from all media houses, were trained in economic reporting and newsroom training. The two workshops were followed by another one on reporting on issues of children held from 16 – 18 August 2006 at Orion Hotel in Pigg’s Peak, Swaziland. More than 25 journalists attended the workshop funded by UNICEF. On July 2006 MISA Swaziland in conjunction with IAJ officially launched the Centre for Journalism Excellence which will compliment the work done by the University of Swaziland by working with schools and in-service practitioners to ensure there is holistic education and training of media personnel. The establishment of the school followed a series of consultative meetings with stakeholders who named MISA Swaziland the coordinator of the centre. In Tanzania, MISA trained 80 journalists at national and districts levels on investigative reporting, in-depth and long-term research reporting, using public and private information sources, including financial information and budget. The journalists have started submitting their investigative reporting proposals for financial support under the Investigative Journalism Training on Corruption and Good Governance project implemented by MISA and PACTTanzania. Some of the journalists who were trained have started exposing corruption scandals at local government level which led some of these leaders to resign from their office. Annual Report 2006 39