Douala

Media, Civil Society unite to foster Good Governance
By Eddy Bokuba in Douala

PASC Director Bertin Likanda

Media professionals and civil society organizations in Cameroon have forged a partnership to jointly promote good governance in the country. The journalists and civil society actors last week met in Douala during a 3-day workshop that ran from 18 to 20 June 2015.
    Organized by the Civil Society Strengthening Program (PASC) and funded by the European Union, participants resolved to federate efforts towards promoting good governance in all sectors of national life.
    Opening the workshop, the Executive Director of PASC, Bertin Lukanda, called on participants to initiate positive actions that can ignite good governance. He urged them to create avenues for dialogue among themselves and stressed on the need for journalists and civil society actors to work as partners, arguing that it is only through joint action that the impact of their operations can be better felt.

     Bertin Likanda prayed media men to forgive and forget the shabby treatment they sometimes receive from civil society actors.
     For their part, workshop facilitators called on both media and civil society actors to eschew some of those anti-professional practices that drag their profession to the mud.
    At the end of the three days participants pledged to put into practice the advice and skills they acquired during the training.