Media workshop to promote reporting on social policy and economic perspective in Iraq
The workshop is part of efforts to equip journalists with the knowledge to analyse, monitor and evaluate public policies that contribute to the actualization of the right to social protection.
20 January 2022
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(ILO News) The ILO, together with the Media Centre for Civil Society Organizations in Iraq, held its first workshop for journalists and social media influencers on social policy and economic perspective in Iraq.
The workshop allowed participants to exchange experience and knowledge on social policy, economic perspective and social security and ways to effectively report on these issues in the country.
The one-day training, the first in a series of similar activities, targeted 20 journalists including those from local print, TV and radio channels.
Under a social protection reform programme supported by the European Union, the ILO is working closely with the Government of Iraq to extend the scope of social security through legislative reform and capacity building support.
Part of these activities also includes raising awareness among workers in the private sector, particularly those working in the informal sector, on the benefits of social security, and cultivating broader support for social security coverage among unregistered workers as well as the wider Iraqi public.
This workshop will support these outreach activities by equipping journalists with knowledge that allows them to analyse, monitor and evaluate public policies that contribute to the actualization of the right to social protection, while leveraging various communications channels, instruments and outlets to effectively deliver messages on social security and related benefits.
These efforts are part of activities being implemented under a wider joint social protection programme in Iraq to reform social protection and the effectiveness of its response to ongoing socio-economic shocks. Supported by the European Union, the social protection programme is implemented by the ILO, UNICEF, WFP and the Government of Iraq.
The workshop allowed participants to exchange experience and knowledge on social policy, economic perspective and social security and ways to effectively report on these issues in the country.
The one-day training, the first in a series of similar activities, targeted 20 journalists including those from local print, TV and radio channels.
Under a social protection reform programme supported by the European Union, the ILO is working closely with the Government of Iraq to extend the scope of social security through legislative reform and capacity building support.
Part of these activities also includes raising awareness among workers in the private sector, particularly those working in the informal sector, on the benefits of social security, and cultivating broader support for social security coverage among unregistered workers as well as the wider Iraqi public.
This workshop will support these outreach activities by equipping journalists with knowledge that allows them to analyse, monitor and evaluate public policies that contribute to the actualization of the right to social protection, while leveraging various communications channels, instruments and outlets to effectively deliver messages on social security and related benefits.
These efforts are part of activities being implemented under a wider joint social protection programme in Iraq to reform social protection and the effectiveness of its response to ongoing socio-economic shocks. Supported by the European Union, the social protection programme is implemented by the ILO, UNICEF, WFP and the Government of Iraq.