in one example from samoa the ministry of natural resources and the environment monre has produced a weekly column for the local newspaper intended to help foster environmental awareness and engagement among young people for its part unesco has done quite a bit of work in the area of media capacity development with programmes focused on a range of sustainable development issues such as climate change hivaids and the mdgs while different countries and cultures may vary in their preferences for social media the importance and prevalence of online activities is increasing steadily a number of csos from the ten focus countries have some online presence including facebook pages and twitter accounts but in most cases there appears to be little activity on these sites