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Centre for Media and Communication Studies (CMCS) participated in a Panos South Asia (PSA) workshop on “Climate Change and Multimedia Communications” held in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu from August 17 to 24, 2009. CMCS chairman Sohel Manzur attended the workshop, aimed at building capacity of the South Asian media and civil society organizations in developing multimedia communication tools to create awareness about the imminent global environmental disaster.

A total of 23 media and development practitioners from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka participated in the eight-day workshop, which had both thematic and technical sessions.

In the thematic sessions, the participants were informed of how global warming is going to threaten the existence of our future generations, what are the factors that led to this situation and the impacts of the disaster on South Asian countries.

The participants were also informed of how global warming caused by the insensible behavior of the inhabitants of the world prompted the global climate to behave abnormally leading to natural disasters like Tsunami, frequent earthquakes and melting down of the ice in the northern pole of the earth.

Global warming also started melting the ice of the great Himalayas leading to creation of large lakes in Nepal and having impact on weather patterns in the South Asian countries, including Bangladesh, prompting epidemics of even diseases like diarrhea, the resource persons in the workshop said, emphasizing the need for intensified media campaign to create awareness about it and facilitate combined global efforts to minimize the damage of the disaster.

In the technical sessions, the participants learned how to develop and use multimedia (audio, video and web) communication tools to create awareness among the people about the danger of climate change and facilitate behavioral changes at all levels to minimize the impact of the disaster.

During the visit to Nepal, the CMCS chairman also had talks with Koshore Pradhan, Deputy Director of Panos South Asia, on possibilities of future collaboration between the two organizations.

He also visited the regional headquarters of AMARC (World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters) in Kathmandu and had talks with Suman Basnet, Regional Coordinator of AMARC Asia Pacific.