Safety i Gambia

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• oktober 3, 2021

Picnic ved Leybato med GPU – efter en lang dags workshop om GPUs strategi for journalisters sikkerhed. GAMES’ taxachauffør Tijan “Tiger” havde lavet maden.

Af Lars Møller

I juli var GAMES på mission i Gambia, især for at træne sikkerhed med gambiske safety trainers og lave en konkret strategi sammen med partneren GPU, Gambia Press Union.

• Sammen med GPU og kollegaer har vi udviklet en ”Media Safety Mechanism”, der nu er ved at blive implementeret i de gambiske mediehuse.
  
• Samtidigt udviklede vi landsdækkende ”Gambian Safety Mechanism”, baseret på IMS’s erfaringer fra mange andre steder i verden. Arbejdet med at implementere den er så småt gået i gang – og involverer både regeringen og civilsamfundet.

Gode folk i spidsen

I GPUs sekretariat er det safety officer Therese Gomez, der sidder ved roret. Tjek også video-nyhederne ud og hør safety trainer Kebba Jeffang fortælle – han er også bestyrelsesmedlem af GPU.

Men ellers har GPU hyret den erfarne Saikou Jammeh til at lede arbejdet. Han var generalsekretær i GPU, da de kæmpede mod diktatoren Jammeh, og senere, da de vandt. Når han ringer, så tager ministeren telefonen. Det samme gør cheferne for de store civilsamfundsorganisationer – og de sagde ja til at være med!

Det kommer vi til at skrive mere om senere på året.
Her følger blot et lille uddrag fra rapporten med tilhørende meget amatøragtige, men hurtigt lavede grafikker:

GPU decided on the way forward, “Building mechanisms for safety”:

• To use the coming election as an opportunity to speed up the process of creating safety mechanism. It motives the editors and staff, and it sustains the advocacy efforts towards the government. Then, after the parliamentary elections in April, the mechanisms will be evaluated with the view to make the set-up permanent.
• To create a Media Safety Mechanism, as a number of in-house safety mechanisms, with an informal network of “Editors for Safety” as its guiding governance, and with GPU serving as support office and connection to the overall Gambian Safety Mechanism”.
• To create a Civil Safety Mechanism with a broad-based board, and with GPU serving as its the operating arm, monitoring, advocating, pushing the government to protect, investigate and prosecute.
• To aim for a dual approach, in which the civil safety mechanism’s board participates in the Coordination Committee of a “Gambian safety Mechanism” that includes a governmental safety mechanism.

MEDIA SAFETY MECHANISM:  

MEDIA SAFETY TOOLBOX:

1 Media Safety Mechanism

2 Story Risk Checklist

3 Event Risk Checklist

4 Critical Reporters Checklist

5 Keep the Photographers Safe

6 Standart Operational Procedures SOP’s

7 Safety Plan

8 Contingency Plan

9 Safe Editing Procedures

10 Emergency Response

11 Social Media Safety Guidelines

GAMBIAN SAFETY MECHANISM: