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JOURNALIST TRAINING
Strategic Group: Resilient Economies and Landscapes & Action Area: Economies
ICIMOD
01 July 2026 to 03 July 2026
This intensive, in-person journalist training is designed to strengthen reporting and storytelling on climate change and migration in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region. Journalists will explore the complex relationships between climate impacts, human mobility, livelihoods, and resilience, while developing the skills needed to communicate these issues accurately, ethically, and engagingly to diverse audiences. The training will equip participants with the knowledge and tools to interpret climate science, analyse migration narratives, work with data and expert sources, and produce nuanced, evidence-based stories grounded in lived experiences and local realities.
Climate change is increasingly reshaping patterns of mobility and displacement across the world. Rising temperatures, extreme weather events, food and water insecurity, and loss of livelihoods are already affecting vulnerable communities, many of whom have contributed the least to global warming. In some contexts, migration can serve as a strategy for adaptation and resilience; in others, climate impacts can deepen inequalities, intensify resource pressures, and compound existing vulnerabilities. Yet media narratives on migration often remain oversimplified, crisis-driven, or disconnected from the experiences and agency of affected communities.
This training seeks to bridge these gaps by helping journalists critically engage with dominant narratives around climate-related mobility and migration. By strengthening evidence-based and human-centred reporting, the training aims to move beyond fear-based and crisis-driven framings, creating space for more diverse, nuanced, and rights-based understandings of climate mobility.
Through practical exercises, collaborative learning, and story development sessions, participants will strengthen their ability to produce compelling, well-sourced stories that inform public understanding, elevate underreported perspectives, and support more informed decision-making on climate change and migration in the HKH region.
This training programme falls under the Foresight Intervention within the Strategic Group on Resilient Economies and Landscapes at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development
(ICIMOD), funded through the Successful intervention pathways for migration as adaptation (SUCCESS) project (Project no. 110007-003) by UK aid from the UK government and by the International Development Research Centre (IDCR), Ottawa, Canada as part of Climate Adaptation and Resilience (CLARE) research programme. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent those of the UK government, IDRC, its Board of Governors or ICIMOD.
The training will capacitate journalists from South Asia with the knowledge and skills to report on the complex links between climate change and migration in the HKH, with a focus on how climate impacts shape mobility, livelihoods, resilience and their representation in media narratives.
It supports more nuanced and critical engagement with dominant framings of climate-related migration while encouraging more balanced, context-sensitive, and inclusive storytelling approaches. This includes the careful use of terminology, avoiding alarmist narratives, centring the lived experiences and perspectives of affected communities, and critically examining how data is sourced, constructed, and interpreted.
Overall, it equips participants with the expertise to develop and present scientifically sound stories that are easily accessible and understandable to the general public.
Upon completion of the training, participants will:
This training is for early to mid-career freelance and staff journalists working in print, digital/web and photojournalism who regularly report on environmental issues, particularly climate change and its impacts, in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Pakistan.
Selection criteria
This is a public notice to ensure that all interested and qualified individuals have a fair opportunity to submit applications for funding. The eligible applicants must be located within ICIMOD’s working areas – Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Pakistan. In addition, applicants should not be affiliated with a political party or engaged in any political activities and not be focused solely on religious activities.
ICIMOD will cover all direct costs related to the workshop, including international airfare, visa processing, local transport, accommodation, and food during the workshop for all selected participants.
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