Partners Index

The Somali journalism training project has been involved, over the last two years, in establishing sustainable training centers and partners to ensure that journalism training outlasts the length of the current BBC training project for Somali journalists. The aim of iLearn is that, with appropriate partners, online journalism training for Somali journalists can continue in the long term.

UNIVERSITY OF HARGEISA 

http://www.universityofhargeisa.net
 
A deal has been arranged with the media department of the university of Hargeisa as iLearn partners to provide online journalism training. The University will ensure that suitable trainees take part in the iLearn courses and will make Internet facilities available them. Presently, there are seven operational faculties and a civil service institute  in the University of Hargeisa. It has also started distance learning certificate programs with the African Virtual University, which includes a five-module Certificate in Journalism that the Indiana University of Pennsylvania is providing. 
 
AMOUD UNIVERSITY

http://www.amoud-university.borama.ac.so
 
The initiative to expand and enhance online journalism training through partnership with local institutions also included the the Uinversity of Amoud in Borama. A partnership agreement has been forged and  the university expects to run, as soon as possible, a distance learning programme with the AVU. Amoud was the first of its kind in post-civil-war in Somalia. I offers B.A. & B.Sc.degrees at the completion of required courses in it graduate programs  in Education and administration. It also runs a number of undergraduate colleges including the College of Agriculture and Environmental Science, Business and Public Adminstration, Allied Health, and the College of Education. The computer center at the university provides full range of facilities and services for students and staff.
 
BOSSASO UNIVERSITY (EAU) 

http://www.puntlanduniversity.com
 
In September this year, a training visit to Puntland, which has also been working on how the project can develop partnerships with moderating institutions in Puntland, had the opportunity to establish relations with the East Africa University in Bossaso. The Bossaso University was interested in eastablishing partnership with the BBC iLearn training project and the AVU journalism programm as well. Bossaso university was established and received it first intake of student in 2000 in the faculties of Education, Computer Science, Sharia Law and General Management. The university network is well equipped with 2 modern computer laboratory systems and IT halls for its students and staff members.

 MOGADISHU JOURNALIST CLUB (SJC)

There are also the efforts to increase the reach of online journalism to iLearn participants in the south Somalia. The Training Project is working at the moment with the Somali Journalist Club (SJC) in Mogadishu, mainly on bringing  young journalists into the iLearn realm. It has agreed with the SJC  to run a number of initial iLearn workshops at their centers in Mogadishu.
 
SOLJA
 
The Somaliland Journalists Association (SOLJA)  in Hargeisa could be part of the centers where iLearn trainees would be doing their work. The BBC training project has installed a number of  PC computers with Internet connections at the center in Hargeisa.