Internews Europe

The overall goal of Infoasaid is to enhance the efficiency of rapid humanitarian responses by maximising the amount of accurate and timely information available to both humanitarian responders and affected populations. It focuses on enhancing information exchange between these groups in the critical first few days and weeks of emergencies.

Since 2005, Internews, in conjunction with its local partner, the Association pour le Développement des Médias Communautaires (ADMC), has developed a programme to meet the critical information needs of Darfur refugees and the local Chadian population living in eastern Chad. Internews has created a newsroom and studio in Abéché to produce multi-lingual news programmes and a community radio station in Iriba, Radio Absoun. The Chad Humanitarian Information Service currently reaches 163,000 refugees, 40,000 IDPs (internally displaced persons) and a host population of 180,000 Chadians in Abéché, Iriba and Goz Beida.

Media and Stabilisation Action aimed to support media workers and humanitarian organisations in Sri Lanka during the last year of the civil war. The initiative put an emphasis on collaboration with local organisations and building on the work of national and international organisations in the area of media development. The project worked to advise, inform and help sustain these networks in the context of the Sri Lankan crisis. 

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.

Business Roaming in Mongolia and China aims to provide useful business content and economic data critical to decision-making to herders and rural entrepreneurs in the Mongolian region, through the use of innovative information technologies. This project is a rural business information service to support rural livelihoods.

The Media4Diversity project researches the role of the media in both impeding and advancing the diversity agenda in the European Union with a selection of 30 initiatives and 39 recommendations aimed at working with the media sector to change the attitudes of Europeans towards individuals or groups who are currently discriminated against because of their ethnicity, sex, religious beliefs, age or sexual orientation.

Romania joined the EU on January the 1^st 2007. In the same month, Internews Europe launched a project on ‘Enhancement and development of professional expertise in the Romanian audio-visual sector’. The project aims to help Romania’s electronic media regulator, the Consiliul National al Audiovizualului (National Audio-Visual Council, or CNA), raise the standards of its work. It also seeks to strengthen the capacity of the CNA to enable it to apply EU policies to the audio-visual sector in Romania.