Planned Actions: :

1. Media Management Training

1.1 Organize regional level media management trainings to the managers and editors;

1.2 Organize regional level equipment operation, maintenance, and web designing trainings to local technical manpower. (This is going to be first ever attempt made for district media.)

2. Good Journalism

2.1 Provide short term basic and refresher course journalism training to the journalists and fresh candidates who are interested in grassroots journalism;

2.2 Organize Training of Trainers (ToT) to local trainers

2.3 Organize specialized trainings on health journalism election reporting, media responsibility, village journalism, development, good governance and investigative journalism.

2.5 Develop working partnership relations with Media Universities and Media organization to develop quality and confidence of local journalists.

3. Media Exposure Training

Organize exposure visits and establish relations with international media organizations and Universities

4. Media Publication and Research

4.1 Organize provincial and national meetings of media experts, journalists and writers to identify the needs of media publications.

4.2 Publication of media books on local media development and newly developed world media theory.

4.3 Conduct periodic research and monitoring on the coverage of different local issues e.g. health, social inclusion, peace, local governance and transparency, and local development.

4.4 Publish periodic research and monitoring report.

4.5 Review media policies and regulations at the local level and submit reports to the Nepal Government and policy makers

5. Media Dialogue Workshop

5.1 Organize different media dialogue programs in different remote districts of Nepal on issues like- media freedom, media ethics, democracy, transparency, social inclusion and economic development to make journalists professional and citizen aware on their rights and duties.

5.2 Interact between civil society and local media: the two pillars of democracy on different local issues.

5.3 Liaison with local media, government line agencies, development organizations and donor communities,

Note: Rural and the remotest districts people from deprived classes are encouraged and prioritized in all NMDC.