Internews Europe

Over the last 6 years, 1500 journalists from dozens of countries have been trained and have produced over 2000 stories during the project's activities. The projects participants build their capacity through training workshops, support for roduction and distribution, dispersing small grants and fellowships, research, and the development of curricula and briefing materials in order to improve their coverage of environmental issues and challenges.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

My SME (small and medium enterprises) News is a pioneering service that aims to provide the poor in India with essential business news while reaching operating profit within two years at the same time. It leverages the rapid spread of mobile phones in India’s slums and simultaneously relies on traditional media to reach a broad customer base with individually tailored services. Internews Europe, Mahiti and Plural India launched the My SME News pilot in the slums of Kolkata, West Bengal, for 300,000 micro-finance entrepreneurs. My SME News blends the power of technology with existing realities and social networks in India's slums and villages to build a 'Bottom of the Pyramid' media business. It also makes new models of pro-poor media sustainable in the market place.

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.