Enhancing Nigeria’s Response to HIV and Aids (ENR) is a new Pan-Nigerian, DFID-funded project which will focus on lowering the prevalence of HIV in the country.
An aspect of this, which the BBC World Service Trust (BBC WST) is a part of, is to help capacity building at national and state TV stations. This involves creating a TV training team which will then go out and provide training at local stations, including training on HIV reporting and co-producing with the station for several weeks.
Ambika Samarthya, an international trainer based in Abuja reports on the first stages of the three year project.
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I first saw Devaan on her reel which I watched at my desk in the WST Abuja offices. She is a very articulate presenter at the Nigerian Television Authority, but her show lacked production quality, creativity, and preparation.
As an international trainer on the ENR project, my task is quite a big one. My main goal is to build a training team that will go on to train and co-produce with stations around Nigeria. First I have to take current TV employees like Deevan, and ‘unteach’ them everything they think they know and inspire them to adopt new methods of conceptualization and production techniques.
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