OSCE trains staff of Montenegrin local public broadcasters on project writing skills

The staff of local public broadcasters enhanced their project writing skills to help them better respond to various calls for project proposals during a two-day training course organized by the OSCE Mission to Montenegro on 6 and 7 June 2019 in Podgorica.

This workshop, a  follow-up to last year’s basic training course, was attended by 11 representatives of local public broadcasters from Radio and Television Budva, Nikšić, Rožaje, Pljevlja, as well as radio Cetinje, Danilovgrad, Berane and Andrijevica. The training was facilitated by two local experts, Goran Ɖurović and Ana Novaković.

Opening the workshop, Daniel Blank, Media Programme Manager at the OSCE Mission to Montenegro, said understanding project design and delivery are crucial elements in managing the work of a media house. “Everything we do in our professional life consists of small and big projects, so it is good to have an understanding of how project ideas are envisioned and then how to implement them. It is advisable to structure the year with both small and big projects to make your media house grow stronger,” said Blank.

The two-day training course taught participants how to transfer an idea into the quality and well-written project.  “Ideas are not enough. You must know the steps and rules of how to transform ideas into well-planned projects,” said Novaković.

The course focused on practice, rather than theory, and dealt with the research process, developing a logical framework, budgeting and reporting in the project-writing process.