Globe International Center conducted an online training aimed at building skills of journalism students on a media advocacy campaign, on 1 April 2021. The training was attended by 20 students from the Mongolian National University, Mongolian State University of Education, University of the Humanities, School of Radio, Broadcasting and Media Arts of Mongolian State University of Culture and Arts, Ulaanbaatar Erdem University, and CITI University.

The training covered two different yet essential topics: Advocacy and Lobbying, facilitated by Kh.Naranjargal, Chair of the Board of the GIC, and Requesting public information using the Law on Information Transparency and Right to Information by B.Purevsuren, the GIC lawyer.  

The first session saw students informed on significant topics such as problem-based journalism and its processes, advocacy, its purposes, framework, techniques, tactics, and its participating actors as well as lobbying, its types, its communicating, its importance, four ways of lobbying and 10 was of planning lobby. The main importance was that the training resulted in allowing students to distinguish two different concepts, namely advocacy and lobby as well as their different dimensions/aspects. For example, lobbying is advocacy, but every advocacy is not lobbying. If advocacy focuses on making people knowledgeable on certain problems lobbying is directed at influencing particular laws and regulations. Another highlight of the training was the three GIC cases or experience, one of which resulted in knowledge among four parliament members during the times when there was no understanding about information transparency. The lobbying saw whole nine years of different undertakings and campaigns such as discussions, training, meetings, and policy analysis. 

The second session led by B.Purevsuren, the lawyer of GIC, was about information transparency and the right to information which is considered the fundamental human right as declared in the Universal Human Rights Declaration in 1945. Purevsuren clarified four ways to exercise the right to information, namely to find, to receive, to get, and to disseminate as well as passive and active means to acquire info. The main highlight of the session was the types of information that public institutions have the rights to not disclose. The second highlight was that students learned how to officially request public information from governmental organizations only providing data such as full name, residing address, and copy of their official document, and informed that they do not need to state the purpose. Some of the students raised issues related to bureaucracy in Mongolian legal and police institutions from which students mainly suffer to get information in a timely manner. Purevsuren advised them how to use relevant laws and regulations in order to overcome this issue.

The training was delivered to journalism students by Globe International Center under the International Republican Institute's "Empowering Youth and Women Journalists" program being implemented with the support of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The other two training will cover the importance of active voters and mobile journalism, and how to influence through Social media platforms.