International. improve its coordination of the media sector’s response to HIV and AIDS. MISA Swaziland staff, NGC members, editors and other media stakeholders attended the workshop. The report is currently being finalised and work to coordinate the sector will resume shortly. On 11 – 13 February 2009, MISA-Swaziland, in collaboration with Skill Share organised a workshop for women media workers on human rights. The workshop also facilitated the revival of the Media Women’s Association, which was eventually launched in March 2009. MISA-Tanzania in collaboration with PACTTanzania under sponsorship of USAID/ Millennium Challenge Corporation trained Tanzanian journalists in investigative reporting techniques to be able to uncover and report corruption and other social ills. 30 journalists were also trained on Public Procurement Act and financial regulations as tools to fight expose and report corruption. The project also continued to provide small grant to support journalists who are ready to carry out investigative journalism work on various issues on governance and corruption. They will be given grants after submitting proposals for specific issues they wanted to investigate. Training and other support to media MISA-Lesotho held a five-day training event on Governance at Blue Mountain Hotel in the Berea district. The training was held with financial assistance of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) through the Lesotho Council of NGOs. This was also followed by a three-day training on Peace Building for journalists and supported by training was funded by the Department for International Development (DFiD) through Skillshare The roundtable discussion on access to information titled “The Role of the Media in Combating Corruption – Achievements and Challenges after Two years” was held whereby various media stakeholders, diplomats, media owners, government officials, CSOs representatives and general public discussed obstacles 62 facing Tanzanian journalists in accessing information on corruption and good governance. Recognising the needs of increasing investigative reporting skills to Tanzanian journalists, the chapter designed a training manual on investigative journalism. The manual was created from the experiences obtained from the twoyear civil society Anti Corruption project. The manual will be used as a training tool in the proposed countrywide indepth investigative reporting training in the future. Recognizing that access to information could be enhanced through internet training for journalists, MISATanzania in collaboration with Finish Foundation for Media, Communication and Development (VIKES) held internet journalists workshop for journalists to introduce them on how to effectively make use of internet in modern journalism for fact-finding, news monitoring, communication and publication. Twenty Tanzanian journalists benefited in this project. Among other things, journalists were able to create their own blogs. About 40 editors and journalists have been trained on the subject, and have started using the knowledge in the day-to-day activities such as research, communication with sources and whistleblowers. MISA-Zimbabwe held a two-day election reporting training workshop for journalists in two cities. A total of 40 journalists attended both workshops which highlighted among other issues safety issues and the importance of coming up with objective reportage that would guide the electorate to make informed decisions. As part of the training, MISAZimbabwe drew up Election reporting guidelines meant to guide journalists whilst covering the elections. The setting up and utilization of the MISAZimbabwe media centre during elections became an indication of the need for an affordable and central location for journalists to be able to receive and send out information. In order to promote continued access of ICTs to the media and acquire knowledge in the use of ICTs in their 63