Panos South Asia, with its headquarters in Kathmandu, is part of the family of Panos Institutes worldwide that encourage and facilitate public discourse and debate on a wide range of issues.
Treatment & Care : For People living with HIV/AIDS
Monitoring & Evaluation: Work in Progress
Invitation to apply for Knight fellowships ICFJ invites applications from eligible candidates to apply for the upcoming Knight fellowships.These fellowships will facilitate launching a network of women citizen journalists reporting on gender issues in India or Pakistan; and create an online platform that maps citizen generated reports on crime and corruption in Pakistan.Here is a link to the application site: https://www.tfaforms.com/688 ...More>>
Panos-CMS Young Environment Journalists Awards 2011 presented Panos South Asia in association with CMS has announced the Panos- CMS Young Environment journalists Awards for the year 2011.Soma Basu of The Statesman, Kolkata is the winner in the print category and Manu C Kumar of Manorama News, Mumbai is the winner in the Electronic Media category. The awards which includes a citation and a cash prize of Rs. 50,000 each were presented to the winners at the inaugural ceremony of the CMS-Vatavaran Environment and Wildlife film festival,on December 6th at New Delhi.The awards are presented for excellence in environmental journalism to individuals who have done "exemplary investigative and inspired reporting on environment issues in the country" ...More>>
Panos South Asia-The Caravan Special Assignment Fellowships Panos South Asia joined hands with The Caravan to strengthen enterprise reporting,through a special assignment fellowship programme.The project is designed to encourage in-depth coverage of important topics in South Asia; discovering and significantly advancing stories that have been covered, but not in magazine depth.A look at the outputs. http://www.caravanmagazine.in/Story.aspx?Storyid=1166&StoryStyle=FullStory ...More>>
Panos South Asia’s critical inquiry into the politics of land reforms in Pakistan With land having assumed a pivotal role in the massive social engineering of our societies according to the cold logic of the free market, Panos South Asia felt the need to create fresh critical scholarship that not only interrogates the fundamental idea of land as commodity but also re-examines the usefulness of the apparently discredited notion of land rights in the creation of more just societies. The book ‘Leveling the Playing Field: A survey of Pakistan’s Land Reforms’ kicks off this project by taking a critical look, both academic as well as journalistic, at the politics of land reforms in Pakistan Download PDF...More>>
Panos South Asia announces its Reporting research media fellows 2011 to investigate and write on Dams and development in Northeast India Panos South Asia’s RELAY programme has selected five print and one television journalist for the ‘Reporting research media fellowship programme’ on dams and development in Northeast India.The fellowship ends in September 2011.They are Nayanjyothi Bhuyan,Nibha Rani Roy,Dhanabanta Loukrakpam,Sanjay Mazumder,Sandeep Patil and Azin Pertin ...More>>
Training Facility, Media Equipment for Hire;
Media/Communications Training Services Available in Kathmandu,
Nepal Panos South Asia offers a state of the art communications training
facility at subsidised rates for I/NGOs and other development agencies. Located
in Kathmandu, Nepal, the PSA Media Centre is equipped with 10 work stations/computers with WiFi, LCD
projector, as well as other media equipment such as video cameras, audio
recorders, audio and a television studio. The facility can accomodate
twenty five people for workshops, trainings,
consultations and meetings;and 20 people for technical hands-on trainings,
such as on digital presentation, internet, social networking tools,
online/internet publishing/broadcast, blogging, audio-visual digital editing and
production. Back-up power generators are also available to ensure
hassle-free training. ...More>>
Panos South Asia collates a book of Oral testimonies of Positive People The Oral testimony tool uses the power of storytelling to bring neglected subjects to the fore and give a platform for voices and perspectives which are often rendered voiceless in the public sphere. These testimonies will also facilitate development of a training kit to aid prograame implementers to work towards inclusive HIV/AIDS policies ...More>>
Panos South Asia hosts its ninth Media Gatekeepers’
retreat at Chateau Jemeppe, Belgium PSA’s 2010 Media Gatekeepers’ retreat which brought together Editors
from India, Pakistan and Afghanistan deliberated on the topic ‘No progress
beyond ‘Lakshman Rekha ‘ in Kashmir. The discussants included Bharat
Bhushan, Anant Nath,Siddharth Varadarajan, Surya Gangadharan and Om Thanvi
from India; Shahir Zahine, Dr Hussain Yasa and Danish Karokhel from
Afghanistan; Azhar Abbas, Zahid Hussain and Khalid Hameed Farooqi from Pakistan.
The event which took place on October 2nd and 3rd was moderated by Kanak Mani
Dixit, Editor, Himal Southasian ...More>>