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Early elections planned for Kazakhstan in January, coupled with progress towards fully multi-party polls has created the urgent need for media training and capacity building. Internews launched activities to reinforce the media capacity during the electoral and post-electoral periods.

This project seeks to promote long term recovery and stabilization efforts in four flood-affected provinces of Pakistan: Sindh, Punjab, KPK and Baluchistan. The activities planned will improve the capacity of local media TV and radio outlets in these areas to engage with and report on grassroots governance issues in flood-affected areas.  will also work on building the communications skills of local government officials. Citizens will be introduced sustainable means to interact with their local media and, thus, those in positions of leadership and authority, to stimulate discourse around effective local governance.

Several months after the earthquake that hit Haiti on the 12th January 2010, the few communication systems that have been set up still play a very important role in the humanitarian response to the needs of the population and could also be determinant for relief operations if another disaster struck the country again. Yet, these systems are concentrated around Port-au-Prince and hardly exist in the rest of the country. The expansion of an efficient information system outside of Port-au-Prince during an emergency situation essentially depends on the humanitarian communication capacities of local authorities, local media and other organisations such as NGOs. The project seeks to strengthen Haitian local authorities and the media’s ability to provide disaster preparedness and civil protection before, during and after a natural disaster.

Since the devastating 7.0 Richter earthquake in Haiti on January 12, 2010, Internews has been working on the ground with local Haitian media and humanitarian aid agencies to get critical information directly to the people who need it most.

Iraq Media Junction is a three-year programme designed to strengthen the interaction between Iraq’s independent media and civil society organisations. It promotes mutual understanding and establishes contacts between them. The aim of the project is to improve journalistic skills in social reporting and investigative journalism on the one hand and the capacity of Iraq’s civil society to engage the press and advocate reporting on social issues on the other.

The Earth Journalism Awards (EJA) programme aims to address the information gap on climate change by providing an incentive to report on the issue and its impacts. It seeks to improve the quality of output, both leading up to and during COP15. Internews organised a number of meetings during the first week of COP15 to build the capacity of the winners in covering a UN Climate Change Summit and to give them access to experts and sources of information around the summit.

This project works to give Rwandan journalists high-quality training in health journalism and long-term mentoring, enabling them to disseminate information on reproductive health services, family planning, preventive health measures, nutrition, HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria in a compelling and scientifically accurate way that does not stigmatise.

Nearly 500 journalists writing from about 108 countries vied to create the most compelling human rights stories in a competition celebrating the 60^th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

This project produced documentary films and radio shows that were tailored to assist the people of Rwanda and eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to understand each other better. In 20 public screenings, more than 15,000 people in Rwanda and DRC viewed the films produced in both countries. The radio shows were aired all over Rwanda and Eastern DRC through radio partnerships.

The Climate Change Media Partnership supports journalism in the developing world from the heart of international climate negotiations. 40 journalists from Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean and the Middle East are selected each year to participate in a climate media fellowship programme designed to improve media coverage of the UN Climate Summits and climate change issues in developing countries.

The project links the Afghan diaspora abroad with Afghanistan’s local independent radio sector. It increases the visibility of local Afghan radio worldwide and creates an opportunity for this fragile sector to be supported by, and offer services to, the Afghan diaspora abroad. Further, Afghanistan’s 37 independent local radio stations will be put online through a platform that will enable them to collect advertising and sponsorship over the Internet. All of Afghanistan's independent local stations, including those located in some of the most remote areas of the country, will benefit from new opportunities and new skills to develop their businesses and increase their revenues.

Internews has implemented a project aimed at harnessing the power of the mass media in the five countries of the Mekong Delta region in South East Asia to help create a more supportive social environment for AIDS prevention, care and treatment efforts.