Youth Canada the World (JCM) – Journalists for the Right Human beings (JDH) – SYTO Programs Eco-Leadership Afrique-Canada (PELAC)

Structure of program

The program of 2006-2007 has its feature to be a South - south program with the cooperation of the Ivory Coast, instead of Canada. Aprés lea selection the participants, two groups will be formed. They will have as course a stay of 3 months in a city in the Benin and a stay of 3 months in the Senegal. Each of the groups will be structured of the façonsuivante:

  6 young persons of the Ivory Coast
  6 young persons of the Benin
  6 young persons of the Senegal
  A supervisor of the Ivory Coast and a supervisor of the Benin (for the staying group or Benin) or from the Senegal (for the group staying in the Senegal)
  An equal number of men and women in every team of 6
  Every person will be twinned with somebody of another country
  Every pair of young persons will live with a family of reception and participate in its daily activities
  Every young person will work with a counterpart in the media community or the organisms of right human beings of the country of stay at the rate of 4 days a week
  All group will participate in a day of instructive activities a week

The young persons will develop attitudes and competences and they acquérront knowledge such as:

  Adaptation
  Leading role
  Inter-cultural communication
  Job of team
  Sense of the organization and sense of responsibilities
  Mind of analysis
  Resolution of problems
  Resolution of conflicts
  Right human beings
  Journalism

Criteria of selection:

  Being of Senegalese nationality
  Be between 18 and 27 year old
  Have a training in communication or in journalism (or be in process of supplementing it) or an appropriate experience in the one or other one of these domains
  Have an interest supported as questions raising right human beings
  Have a good workmanship of French

Contents of program:

The joint program of JCM, SYTO and JDH is not aimed unique at benefiting in the youth of the Ivory Coast, the Benin and the Senegal but also in communities within which will take place plans. The young persons will work with a variety of media institutions: newspapers, radios, televisions (Community or others), ONG, governmental agencies, Community groups or others. By working in different environments, every young person will bring to the group of experiments and different perspectives.

Examples of partners:
  Benin:

• HAAC (High Authority of the Broadcasting and Communication)
• ODEN (Observation of ethics and media education)
• Newspapers: The Morning, The Echoes of Day, Freedom.
• Radios: Radio Maranatha, Radio Star

  Dakar (Senegal):

• Meet African for the Defence of Human rights (RADDHO)
• Siggil Jigeen network
• Newspapers: The Sun, Daily South, Walf Quotidien
• Televisions: Broadcasting Senegalese Television (RTS)
• Radios: MANOORÉ FM, Broadcasting Senegalese Television (RTS), South FM

The plans of the young persons concentrate on subjects linked up with mass media and with right human beings. Following subjects will be able to be approached through the days of instructive activities in which the young persons will participate:
  What are the right human beings? Is there an universal definition of the right human beings?
  Stakes and realities of the right human beings in the different countries
  Human categorized and right groups
  Who are mass media? What are their roles?
  Rights and duties of mass media and journalists
  Obstacles to a quality information on the right human beings
  Institutions and national mechanisms of protection of the right human beings in Canada, in Benin and in the Senegal
  Etc …

Working plans are worked out according to needs and realities of middle and according to interests and competences of the participants.

CONDITIONS

Card ISIC (obligatory for the students)

  Form to be filled on place
  Photocopy student card / certificate or certificate of inscription of the ongoing year
  2 photographs of identity
  5 500 Fcfa

Documents to be provided for inscription

  Expenses of inscription: 2500 Fcfa
  4 photographs of identity
  1 Born extract (less than 3 months)
  1 Extract of the police record (less than 3 months)
  1 Wedding act (for the bridegrooms)
  1 Letter of motivation addressed to the manager de SYTO
  1 Curriculum vitae
  1 Photocopy shapes of passeport*
  Photocopies of certificates and acquired certificates *

*The eccentrics will have to be introduced at the latest a week after interviews for the discreet candidates.

Besides, the candidates who work will have to produce:

  A working certificate
  A certificate of availability signed by their actual employer for the duration of the program to be known from September, 2006 till March, 2007 (6 months).

Besides, all participants will have to promise written to respect the essential elements of program for the duration of the program, including Senegalese stage (for the participants whose second stage is envisaged in Dakar). These elements are: stay in family of reception (different from its natural family), involvement in a working plan (different from the habitual workplace for the participants being already in the service of an employer) and participation in the days of instructive activities.

Selection

Selection will be made on file and will be followed by activity of group and an interview. It will be kept 12 participants on the official list and 04 participants on the list of wait (reservists).

All discreet participants (16) will inevitably have to follow all activities pre-orientation envisaged up to the getting of the visa, which will confirm the défnitive list of the participants to take part really in program.

Financial participation

The discreet participants (official list and reservists) will have to make a collection of fund of a sum of frank hundred and fifty thousand CFA (150 000 Fcfa) as personal commitment for their participation in this program.

They will have to deposit a not repayable advance of thirty frank thousand CFA (30 000 Fcfa) just aprés the publication of the official list for the opening of the file. Supplementary benefit will have to be poured at the latest on June 30th, 2006.

To note that one will take care of all expenses of program: international transport, accommodation and food in family of reception, spending money during both stages of program.