networking through journalism and meaningful partnerships

Environment Tobago has always been a contributor in initiatives that are geared towards sustainable partnerships. This was reinforced with our contribution to an environmental journal
(The Cari-Bois Network)

How did this partnership come about?
The Cari-Bois network is managed by: 
The Cropper Foundation and The Lloyd Best Institute of the Caribbean and was born from  a three year national action project, funded by the European Union.
“Enhancing Civil Society Capacity for Governance of Environmental Transparency and Accountability in Trinidad and Tobago’s Extractive Industries." 

Our Contribution to this initiative:
As a form of establishing and up keeping this meaningful partnership, ET contributed a staff member to a series of virtual seminars and lectures conducted by the Lloyd Best Institute of the Caribbean, with a view of using the training in journalism, blogging and article writing to contribute to the creation of content in writing to the Cari-Bois network journal. Our staff was delighted to have attended and gained much needed practice and feedback from the ET in house editorial team, as well as the Project Editorial team.
This much needed exposure, eventually bore fruit and several articles were submitted for review by the editorial team as aforementioned. Thus far we have had a published article which highlighted
Tobago's UNESCO designation   
You can read the article that was published here.

All in all, we were happy to have contributed to a meaningful discussion through journalism and writing, as the ET President Mr. Bertrand Bhikarry and the executive have always been advocating for more content development through blogging, writing and journalism type contributions , whether it may be publications in the newspapers or any other forms that reach noteworthy targets and groups. 

How did ET gain from this?
Added to everything, we found that Christmas certainly came a bit earlier than expected, seeing that these sorts of projects always have funding excess that goes toward adding value to all of the civil society partners and or project partners. Having said that we are grateful to have received some useful goodies in the form of equipment (Laptops, Bluetooth Devices such as speakers, and other storage devices).
This surely is comes in handy as ET is looking to launch it's in house studio operation come January 2021.
A studio would contribute significantly in developing environmental education content, and serve to act as a catalyst in Tobago regarding the digital education push (Covid19 and all). 

Certainly this has been a win-win situation.
Look how happy our staff is! And the executive, and organization on a whole has something to smile about.