28 November 2014 - UNIOGBIS Public Information Unit finished today in Bissau, a two-day training on "Building Public Opinion in a Democratic State”, the fourth and last covering all the nine regions of the country, within the framework of the Peacebuilding Fund’s program titled "Strengthening the Media’s Watchdog Role".

This last training brought toghether 16 participants, all of them editors in chief of all media in Guinea-Bissau’s capital.

Overall, at least 50 trainees – namely from civil society, Human Rights and Gender - benefited directly from these workshops, following the capacity building provided to journalists in the first semester 2014 under PBSO/PBF/UNIOGBIS/PIU programme "Strengthening the Media’s Watchdog Role".

The trainers, professional journalists, all of them foreign correspondents and the chairman of the union for journalists, SINJOTECS, were accompanied by experts from all substantive sections of UNIOGBIS: Political Affairs, Rule of Law and Security Institutions, Human Rights and Gender, who also delivered their keynote presentations on "Building Public Opinion in a Democratic State”.

The Ministry of Social Communication is the national partner for the PBF programme.